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Virna Liza Sales, MD, MPH,FACC,FAHA,FESC
BACKGROUND
Associate Scientific, Cardiac Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School (2003-2009)
Faculty, Surgery, Harvard Medical School (2003-2010)
Boston, Massachusetts
Director of Cardiology Grants, New York Methodist Hospital and Weill-Cornell Medical College (2012-2015)
Senior Medical Director, Cardiovascular Medical Device, Health Outcomes & Economics Research Consulting Organizations(CRO) (2015-2018)
New York, NY/Boston, MA
Elected Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine (2015-pres)
Senior Medical Researcher, National Veterans Affairs Cardiology Consortium, VA Clinical Trial Network/Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research Information Center (2017)
Elected Fellow, European Society of Cardiology (2019-pres)
Elected Fellow, American College of Cardiology (2022-pres)
Elected Fellow, American Heart Association (2025-pres)
OTHER INTERESTS
Clinical Trials, Registries, Population Health Informatics
Health Economics, Business of Healthcare
Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning
Cardiovascular devices
RESEARCH
Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering
Health Economics & Outcomes Research
Clinical impact of surgical and transcatheter valve replacements, and repairs
Heart Failure Diagnostic and Therapies
Atherosclerosis and Managment of ACS and Aortic Diseases
EDUCATION & TRAINING
University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, B.S Chemistry (1984-1988)
University of Heidelberg, Germany, M.D. (1989-1997)
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover and Hannover Medical School, Germany, Internal Medicine/Cardiology Residency (1997-1998)
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, Cardiovascular Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999.2003)
Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University, Cardiac Surgery Clinical Outcomes Research Fellowship (2009-2011)
University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and UW Hospital and Clinics, Thoracic Surgery, Health Economics and Outcomes Research Fellowship (2011-2012)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, Masters of Public Health (2013-2016)
Cardiothoracic Residency, Germany ( 2018-2022)- University Hospital of the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Cardiac Surgery Residency (2018-2020)- Munich Clinic Bogenausen and Technical University Munich, Cardiac Residency (2020-2021)- Kerckhoff Heart Center Bad Nauheim and the University of Justus-Liebig Gießen, Cardiac Residency ( 2021-2022)
Cardiology Fellowship, Germany (2020, 2023- present)