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

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.