Dr. Dominik C. Benz received his training in cardiology and cardiac imaging at the University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland. In 2021, he did a research fellowship in cardiac amyloidosis and a clinical fellowship in CMR at the Cardiovascular Imaging Program at the Brigham and Women‘s Hospital/ Harvard Medical School in Boston. Since 2023, he serves as faculty in Echocardiography and Cardiac Imaging (CT, CMR, Nuclear) at the University Hospital Zurich.
Dr. Benz is an expert in multimodality cardiac imaging. His research interests include cardiac amyloidosis and quantification of myocardial blood flow in cardiac PET. For his scientific achievements, he received the BIR Early Career Award and Otto Hess Trainee Award and won multiple abstract awards from the ACC and Swiss Society of Cardiology. He is the EACVI ambassador "Heart Imagers of Tomorrow" for Switzerland and member of the ASNC Leadership Development Program.
Rest myocardial blood flow derived from 13N-ammonia positron emission tomography does not differ between stunned and hibernating myocardium in ischemic cardiomyopathy
Event:
ESC Congress 2018
Topic:
Pathophysiology
Session:
Chronic heart failure – Pathophysiology and mechanisms