Alan Bank

Dr. Alan Bank is director of research at MHI East at United Hospital, an associate professor of cardiology at the University of Minnesota and an associate member of the graduate faculty in biomedical engineering at the University of Minnesota. He has directed the research division and the echo core laboratory at MHI East (formerly UHVC) for more than 20 years.

Dr. Bank has served as principal investigator in more than 100 research studies and has published more than 100 papers. His clinical interests are heart failure and echocardiography, and his primary research focus is cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). He has developed a novel noninvasive technology for measuring electrical dyssynchrony in heart failure patients with CRT and has submitted five patents on this technology.

He is currently directing several clinical studies that use this technology to optimize programming in CRT patients and plans to use data from these studies to support commercialization efforts. Dr. Bank is a founding member and serves on the board of the Joseph F. Novogratz Family Heart Rhythm Center at MHIF.