Michael V. McConnell, MD, MSEE

Clinical Focus

• Cardiovascular Disease
• Preventive Cardiology
• Cardiovascular MRI
• Echocardiography
• Cardiovascular Medicine

Administrative Appointments

• Co-Director, Noninvasive Imaging Section, Stanford Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford (2007 - present)
• Member, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS) Faculty, Stanford (2003 - present)
• Physician Representative, Stanford Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, Stanford (2001 - present)
• Director, Cardiovascular MRI Program, Stanford Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford (2000 - present)
• Associate Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship Program, Stanford (2000 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Research Scholarship/Aquitaine Region, Fulbright Foundation (2008)
• Diversity & Leadership Faculty Fellow, Stanford (2007)
• Department of Medicine Teaching Award, Stanford (2002)
• American Heart Association Clinician Scientist Award, Stanford (1996)
• NHLBI Individual National Research Service Award, Stanford (1994)

Professional Education

• M.M.Sc., Harvard, Clinical Investigation (1998)
• Fellowship: Brigham and Women's Hospital, MA (1996)
• Medical Education: Stanford University School of Medicine, CA (1990)
• M.S., M.I.T., Electrical Engineering (1985)
• B.S., M.I.T., Electrical Engineering (1983)

Postdoctoral Advisees

Hisanori Kosuge, Aravind Swaminathan

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Bioengineering
• Cardiovascular Medicine

Research Interests

Imaging cardiovascular disease, with a focus on coronary and vascular atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease. Projects include cellular and structural characterization of atherosclerotic plaque by MRI, optical imaging (bioluminescence and fluorescence) of vascular inflammation, as well as noninvasive coronary angiography by MRI and MRI- guided cardiovascular interventions. Additional collaborative projects include real-time cardiac MRI and multi-modality imaging of cardiac stem cell transplantation.

Publications

• An unusual case of partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage: utility of the cardiac MRI. Kapoor JR, Katikireddy C, Rubin G, Schnittger I, McConnell MV "Int J Cardiol" 2009 ; 1 (133) : e35-6
• Impaired Coronary Vasodilation by Magnetic Resonance Angiography is Associated with Advanced Coronary Artery Calcification in Asymptomatic Older Patients Terashima M, Nguyen PK, Rubin GD, Iribarren C, Courtney BK, Go AS, Fortmann SP, McConnell MV. "J Amer Col Cardiol: Cardiovasc Imag" 2008 : (1) : 167-73
• Multimodal evaluation of in vivo magnetic resonance imaging of myocardial restoration by mouse embryonic stem cells. Hendry SL, van der Bogt KE, Sheikh AY, Arai T, Dylla SJ, Drukker M, McConnell MV, Kutschka I, Hoyt G, Cao F, Weissman IL, Connolly AJ, Pelletier MP, Wu JC, Robbins RC, Yang PC "J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg" 2008 ; 4 (136) : 1028-1037.e1
• Quantitative characterization of myocardial infarction by cardiovascular magnetic resonance predicts future cardiovascular events in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy. Yokota H, Heidary S, Katikireddy CK, Nguyen P, Pauly JM, McConnell MV, Yang PC "J Cardiovasc Magn Reson" 2008 ; 1 (10) : 17
• Real-time color-flow CMR in adults with congenital heart disease. de la Pena E, Nguyen PK, Nayak KS, Yang PC, Rosenthal DN, Hu BS, Pauly JM, McConnell MV "J Cardiovasc Magn Reson" 2006 ; 6 (8) : 809-15