Joao L. Cavalcante, M.D.
Minneapolis Heart Institute® - Abbott Northwestern Hospital
Minneapolis,
MN
USA
Biographical Sketch: Dr. João L. Cavalcante earned his medical degree in Fortaleza, Brazil. He came to US for internal medicine residency, chief residency and cardiology fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital. Between 2010-2012 he completed at the Cleveland Clinic a dedicated 2-year advanced cardiovascular imaging training program, obtaining COCATS Level III in Interventional Echo, Cardiovascular CT and Cardiac MRI.
He was faculty at UPMC between 2012-2018 where he became the Director of the Structural Imaging. In October/2018, he moved to the Minneapolis Heart Institute as the Director of Cardiac MRI, Structural CT Labs and Cardiovascular Imaging Core Lab.
He was recently elected as a new member for the SCCT Board of Directors. Dr Cavalcante has published more than 95 peer-reviewed publications, and is a frequent lecturer at both national and international meetings. His passion for Multimodality Imaging for Valve and Structural Heart Disease provided many opportunities for directing and teaching CT/CMR training workshops.
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