Maria Rosa Costanzo
Wheaton, United States
Dr. Costanzo received her medical degree summa cum laude from the University of Bologna in Italy. Her postgraduate training included a fellowship in cardiology at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. Dr. Costanzo is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, European Society of Cardiology, Heart Failure Society of America and Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology.
She is also a member of the Ordine Dei Medici (The Italian National Medical Professional Association).
Dr. Costanzo served as Medical Director of the Loyola University Chicago Heart failure and Cardiac Transplant Program from 1988 until 1994. From 1994 until 2001 Dr. Costanzo was the Medical Director of the Heart Failure/Cardiac Transplant Program at Rush University Medical Center and was the John H. and Margaret V. Krehbiel Professor of Cardiology at Rush Medical College.
From 1995 until 2000 Dr. Costanzo was the Editor in Chief of the Journal of heart and Lung Transplantation.
In 2002 Dr. Costanzo became the Medical Director of the Edward Center for Advanced Heart Failure.
In 2002 Dr. Costanzo was appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Honorable Tommy Thompson, to serve a four-year term on the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Advisory Council.
From 2012 to 2019 Dr. Costanzo has been a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine exam writing committee for the specialty of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.
From 2018 to 2021 Dr. Costanzo has served as a Member of the Board of Directors for the Heart Failure Society of America.
Dr. Costanzo is currently the Medical Director for the Heart Failure Program at the Midwest Cardiovascular Institute in Naperville, Illinois.
Dr. Costanzo has led several multicenter randomized clinical trials including UNLOAD, AVOID-HF and the Pivotal Trial of phrenic nerve stimulation for central sleep apnea.
Dr. Costanzo has written more than 300 peer reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and review articles for journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, JACC Heart Failure, Circulation Heart Failure, and the European Journal of Heart Failure. Dr. Costanzo was appointed as Associate Editor of the JACC Heart Failure Journal in March 2020, and Associate Editor for Heart Failure of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology in July 2021.
She has presented nationally and internationally on numerous topics related to Heart Failure and Cardiac transplantation.
In 2023 Dr. Costanzo received the Legacy Award from the European Society of Organ Transplantation.
