Maros Ferencik, MD, PhD, MCR, MSCCT graduated from the medical school at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. He completed his clinical and research training in internal medicine, cardiology, and advanced cardiac imaging (cardiac CT, echocardiography, cardiac MR, and nuclear cardiology) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School. After completion of training, he joined the faculty of Knight Cardiovascular Institute at Oregon Health & Science University where he is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Section Head of Cardiovascular Imaging, and Director of Cardio-Oncology Program.

Dr. Ferencik’s research focuses on the effective and efficient use of cardiac CT in the assessment of coronary atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease. He has participated in the evaluation and assessment of cardiac CT in large multicenter clinical trials (ROMICAT I and II, PROMISE, Framingham Heart Study) with the focus on detection and characterization of high-risk coronary atherosclerosis, assessment of coronary calcium, improvement of the diagn ostic accuracy of CT for the diagnosis of ACS and prognosis of future cardiovascular events.

He has served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Society of Cardiovascular Tomography and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. He currently serves as the Society's 19th president.