A 2021 Cardiovascular Prevention Update

Dr. Michael Miedema is director of the Nolan Family Center for Cardiovascular Health and director of research at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, as well as the director of cardiovascular prevention at the Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute. He obtained his medical degree and completed a cardiovascular fellowship at the University of Minnesota Medical School and also has a master’s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health.

He is a leading national expert in cardiovascular prevention. He serves as an associate editor for digital content for the Prevention Section of the American College of Cardiology. He served on the executive review committee for the 2018 ACC/AHA cholesterol guidelines and was a member of the 2019 ACC/AHA guidelines committee for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Thomas Knickelbine is director of lipid research at Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute, where he has actively practiced cardiology since 1996. He is co-director of HeartScan Minnesota, which he founded in 1999 and helped pioneer the initial calcium scoring program in Minnesota. He has published multiple abstracts, presentations and papers surrounding the need for early detection and optimal treatment of coronary artery plaque. Dr. Knickelbine is board certified in cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular CT and has Level III training in cardiac and peripheral CT. His special interests include preventive cardiology and lipid management, coronary calcium scoring, echocardiography, diagnostic imaging, and coronary angiography.

Dr. Elizabeth Tuohy is a cardiologist at Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute and serves as medical director of the Heart Disease Prevention Clinic at United Hospital in St. Paul. She earned her medical degree from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency and cardiovascular medicine fellowship at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Dr. Tuohy’s clinical interests include heart disease prevention, complex lipid management and general cardiology, as well as interpretation of noninvasive cardiac imaging, including echocardiography, nuclear imaging and cardiac CT. She is also active in teaching United Family Medicine residents during her inpatient rounding service at United Hospital. Dr. Tuohy is a member of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the National Lipid Association, and she sees patients in St. Paul, Hastings and Shoreview, Minnesota.