Dr Laura Corsinovi

Professional statement

Dr Laura Corsinovi is a very experienced consultant cardiologist in all aspects of general cardiology and with special interest in cardiac imaging, such as echocardiography, cardiac CT and cardiac MRI and she is working in Winchester and Basingstoke. She privately practises in Candover Clinic, Basingstoke and Sarum Road Hospital and Healthshare in Winchester. Dr Corsinovi sees both insured and self-funding patients and there is no need for a referral.

Dr Corsinovi is also a consultant in general medicine, and she is a strong believer of holistic approach to patient healthcare, including doctor–patient trust and open communication.

Her NHs practice is at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospitals and at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester. She works closely with the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital in London, where she holds an Honorary Consultant Contract.

She looks after patients with chest pain, cardiac murmurs, breathlessness, swollen legs, dizziness, tiredness and fatigue, blackouts and palpitations. She is an expert in diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart problems such as valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathy, hypertension, heart failure, coronary artery disease and arrhythmias.

Dr Corsinovi is highly qualified. After a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery, with honours, from the University of Genoa, Italy, she specialised in Cardiology, General Medicine and Geriatrics at the University Hospital in Turin, Italy. She was awarded with a PhD degree on heart failure in 2008.
 
Dr Corsinovi came to the UK in 2014 to work in the MRI Department at Guy's and St Thomas Hospital, London. She gained further experience at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital before working as consultant at her current NHS Trust, since 2016.

Dr Corsinovi has a special interest in cardiac Imaging. She performs cardiac MRI, cardiac CT and echocardiography (transthoracic, stress and transoesophageal echocardiography). In her career has performed thousands of scans attaining the highest International Certifications (Level 3)* in all these cardiac modalities.

She offers face to face and telephone consultations, ECG and echocardiograms; her service also includes Holter monitoring and 24 hrs ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. She performs cardiac MRI, cardiac CT, stress echocardiograms, bubble and contrast echocardiograms and transoesophageal echocardiograms.

Dr Corsinovi is a respected name in medical research and has more than 20 publications in various high impact peer-reviewed journals and presented at National and International Conferences.

She busies herself in teaching junior doctors of different seniority and various healthcare professionals (i.e. nurses, cardiac physiologists, pharmacists). Before focusing on Medical Education she held the role of Governance Lead of the Cardiology Department at Hampshire Hospitals. She is the Director of very successful Hands-on Echocardiography Courses, accredited at national level by the British Society of Echocardiography (BSE). She is part of the national BSE assessors for the national certification of transthoracic Echocardiography.

She has been humbled by more than 50 Hampshire Hospitals WOW awards from NHS patients who wanted to express their gratitude for the treatment received. A patient said “I often use a Maya Angelou quote, which I think captures the approach of Dr Corsinovi and her team: People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”.

She is an advocate of healthy and active lifestyle to prevent diseases and is driven by providing excellent care for all her patients and contributing to developing the future generation of healthcare professionals.

* Level 3 international certifications in cardiac imaging are: European Society of Cardiology Certification for transthoracic echocardiogram and transoesophageal echocardiogram; Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Certification for cardiac MRI; Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography for CT coronary angiography. In the last years she has performed an average of 400 MRIs, 300 CTCAs and 350 advanced echocardiograms per year.