Birgitta Velthuis

TBC

Prof. dr. Birgitta Velthuis is a radiologist and Professor in Radiology of the Heart-Brain axis in the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), the Netherlands. She is specialized in cardiovascular and neurovascular non-invasive CT and MRI imaging, dividing her work between patient care, teaching and research. Her cardiovascular research focuses on imaging of cardiomyopathies, heart failure and sports cardiology. Her heart-brain axis work focuses on imaging cardioembolic sources of acute ischemic stroke and atherosclerosis at different locations in the body. Within BioMotive, she will focus on imaging the heart in rest and during (upright) exercise testing in patients and in healthy athletes.