João Cavalcante, MD, FACC, FASE, FSCCT, FSCMR

Director, Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center and Core Lab

Dr. João L. Cavalcante is the Section Head for Cardiac Imaging for the Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute, the largest cardiology practice in the Twin Cities, and Director of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation's Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center and Core Lab.

His passion for multimodality imaging and focus on valve and structural heart disease has led to training of several international scholars, over 200 peer-reviewed original investigations, several book chapters, training workshops, in addition to national and international lectures. He is the Associate Editor for the European Heart Journal and was recently named the Inaugural Innovation Chair of the Van Tassel Innovation Center at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation.

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Research Milestone: FDA approves device used as alternative to open-heart

We are honored to celebrate the culmination of years of research that has resulted in new technologies for patients! In the few last weeks, we announced a similar research milestone with the FDA approval of the TriClip system for tricuspid regurgitation. We celebrated this important milestone with local media KSTP-TV, who spotlighted the importance of this new technology. We were proud to be a leading clinical site led by Global PI Dr. Paul Sorajja and the MHIF research team who contributed significant data to the pivotal trial.