Laura Cooper Olivieri

Laura Cooper Olivieri is an American cardiologist, specializing in pediatrics, and noted for her expertise in echocardiography, or ultrasound of the heart.
Education
Laura graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1999 with a BS in Biomedical Engineering, followed by a MD in 2003 at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
Career
Olivieri gained experience in clinical medicine, first at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and later as a resident, then fellow and faculty member at Brown University's Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island.
Olivieri is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is also a cardiologist at Children's National Medical Center.
Olivieri is part of a group of doctors and engineers working to develop accurate 3D models of real patients' hearts at the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation. This project began in 2012, when Dr. Dilip Nath, assistant professor of congenital heart surgery, won a research grant from the Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education to work on developing a curriculum for congenital cardiac surgery education.<ref name=":1" />
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