Valeria Paradies is an interventional cardiologist, head of research department and cathlab co-director at Maasstad Hospital (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). She completed her medical degree cardiology training in Italy, an interventional cardiology fellowship training in Rotterdam and a clinical research fellowship at National Heart Centre in Singapore where she also acquired expertise in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR). She achieved the degree of Master of Clinical Science in structural heart intervention at University of Padova and she is currently enrolled in a PhD program at Erasmus Medical Centre University in Rotterdam.
She is the PI of the Compare STEMI One RCT and is currently the local PI of more 10 RCTs at her centre and the author of 84 papers published in peer-reviewed journals. She is actively involved in the EuroPCR course, European Bifurcation Club and in the organisms under the umbrella of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions, currently.