Michael McConnell , MD

Professor
Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford University
Stanford , CA

Michael V. McConnell, M.D., is a professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Additionally, he is a member of Bio-X, a stanford program that supports, organizes, and facilitates interdisciplinary research connected to biology and medicine. He is also a professor (by courtesy) of Molecular & Cellular Physiology and Electrical Engineering. He holds several other positions at Stanford including director of the Preventive Cardiology Clinic, Co-director of the Non-invasive Imaging Section of Stanford's Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, a member of the molecular imaging program, physician representative at Stanford pharmacy and therapeutics committee, the Clinical Director of Cardiovascular MRI in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and associate director of Stanford's cardiovascular medicine fellowship program. His clinical focus is in cardiovascular disease, preventative cardiology, and cardiovascular imaging. Dr. McConnell came to Stanford from Brigham & Women's Hospital where he was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. He received his undergraduate and graduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering. He received his medical degree from Stanford University and later returned to Boston for house-staff training in Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital, where he also completed his fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine. He completed a one-year Cardiovascular Imaging Fellowship at Brigham & Women's and Beth Israel Hospitals, focusing on cardiovascular MRI under Dr. Warren Manning and echocardiography under Dr. Richard Lee. He also completed the Harvard/MIT Clinical Investigator Training Program, earning an M.S. degree from Harvard Medical School. He joined the Harvard faculty as an instructor in medicine and an attending physician in the Echocardiography Lab at the Brigham. Dr. McConnell's research applied novel MRI techniques to noninvasive coronary artery imaging and both noninvasive and intravascular imaging and characterization of atherosclerotic plaque. At Stanford, he actively collaborates with MR scientists in Electrical Engineering, who have pioneered high-speed, high-resolution cardiovascular MRI techniques. Dr. McConnell has been awarded multiple grants in cardiovascular MRI and served on study sections at the National Institutes of Health. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, member of the American Heart Association and the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and a founding member of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.