João Cavalcante

Dr. João L. Cavalcante serves as Section Head of Cardiac Imaging at the Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital—the largest cardiology group practice in the Twin Cities. He is also the Director of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation’s Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center and Core Lab, where he oversees numerous multicenter clinical trials, and holds the Inaugural Innovation Chair for the Van Tassel Innovation Center.

He is also a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC), the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE), the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (FSCCT), and the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (FSCMR).

His passion for multimodality imaging and focus on valve and structural heart disease is seen through the lead of multiple RCT in advanced imaging, training of several international scholars, > 200 peer-reviewed original investigations, and several book chapters, training workshops, along with national and international lectures.