Alessandra Brofferio, MD

Dr. Alessandra Brofferio is an Associate Research Physician in the Cardiovascular Branch of NHLBI. As a clinician, she heads the Cardiology consult Service at the NIH. Her research interest is on rare vascular diseases. 

Dr. Alessandra Brofferio is the Director of the Cardiology Consult Service and an attending physician working in the Echocardiography Laboratory.  She obtained her medical degree from University of Bologna, Italy and completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She then completed her Cardiology Fellowships and an additional Imaging Cardiology Fellowship at Geisinger Medical Center, PA. She joined the Cardiovascular Branch of NHLBI, NIH in 2010 as a Staff Clinician, invested in cardiology consultation and echocardiography. She became the Director of the Cardiology Consult Service in 2023. Her research within the branch focuses on rare vascular diseases, but she also supports research with multiple groups, from different Institutes of the NIH.  

Publications

TNF-Blockade for Primary Stroke Prevention in Adenosine Deaminase 2 Deficiency: A Case Series 

The Spectrum of the Deficiency of Adenosine Deaminase 2: An Observational Analysis of a 60 Patient Cohort

A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Crossover Study of Magnesium Supplementation in Patients with XMEN Disease

Morphology and chemical identity of periarticular and vascular calcification in a patient with the rare genetic disease of arterial calcification due to deficiency of CD73 (ACDC)

Postoperative Management in Patients with Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma