Clinical Focus

• Cardiovascular Disease
• Preventive Cardiology
• Cardiovascular Imaging

Administrative Appointments

• Director, Preventive Cardiology Clinic, Stanford (2010 - present)
• 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)

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, Brigham & Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School (1996)
• NHLBI Individual National Research Service Award, Brigham & Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School (1994)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

Catherine Dao,  Paul Kim,  Hisanori Kosuge,  Holden Wu

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Cardiovascular Medicine

Industry Relationships

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Current 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.

Clinical Trials

• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Simple Treatment or Prevention (AAA: STOP) Recruiting

Publications

• Assessment of elastase-induced murine abdominal aortic aneurysms: comparison of ultrasound imaging with in situ video microscopy. Azuma J, Maegdefessel L, Kitagawa T, Dalman RL, McConnell MV, Tsao PS. J Biomed Biotechnol. 2011: 2011 252141
• Dual manganese-enhanced and delayed gadolinium-enhanced MRI detects myocardial border zone injury in a pig ischemia-reperfusion model. Dash R, Chung J, Ikeno F, Hahn-Windgassen A, Matsuura Y, Bennett MV, Lyons JK, Teramoto T, Robbins RC, McConnell MV, Yeung AC, Brinton TJ, Harnish PP, Yang PC. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2011; 4 (5): 574-82
• FeCo/graphite nanocrystals for multi-modality imaging of experimental vascular inflammation. Kosuge H, Sherlock SP, Kitagawa T, Terashima M, Barral JK, Nishimura DG, Dai H, McConnell MV. PLoS One. 2011; 6 (1): e14523
• Human ferritin cages for imaging vascular macrophages. Terashima M, Uchida M, Kosuge H, Tsao PS, Young MJ, Conolly SM, Douglas T, McConnell MV. Biomaterials. 2011; 32 (5): 1430-7
• In vitro validation of finite element analysis of blood flow in deformable models. Kung EO, Les AS, Figueroa CA, Medina F, Arcaute K, Wicker RB, McConnell MV, Taylor CA. Ann Biomed Eng. 2011; 39 (7): 1947-60