Michael McConnell , MD

Assistant Professor
Stanford University
Stanford , CA

Dr. Michael V. McConnell is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and the Clinical Director of Cardiovascular MRI in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. McConnell came to Stanford from Brigham & Women?s Hospital where he was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. Dr. McConnell received his undergraduate and graduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering. He received his medical degree from Stanford University He returned to Boston for housestaff training in Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women?s? Hospital, where he also completed his fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine. He did 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 MS 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 has 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. He has served as a reviewer for a number of journals, including Circulation and Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular