Bucciarelli-Ducci was born on June 15, 1976.^[1] She completed her general medical training and her specialist cardiology training at the Sapienza University in Rome, before taking on a doctorate at Imperial College London. Formerly a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol and Co-Director of the Clinical Research and Imaging Centre Bristol, she was named the Chief Executive Officer of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.^[2] As of September 2021^[update], she works at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust in London.

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