Ben Bache-Wiig, MD

Board Member

Dr. Ben Bache-Wiig joined the board in 2020 after retiring from an 11-year career with Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Allina Health, most recently serving as Allina’s executive vice president and chief clinical officer. He is currently the executive medical director at Lifesprk, a Twin Cities-based senior home care company.

Ben is excited about MHIF’s potential to leverage Allina’s enterprise data warehouse to drive quality and innovation in cardiovascular care, as well as MHIF’s research advances in heart valve disease and structural heart.

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The Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation® (MHIF) strives to create a world without heart and vascular disease. To achieve this bold vision, we are dedicated to improving the cardiovascular health of individuals and communities through innovative research and education.

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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.