Heidi Connolly MD

Heidi M. Connolly, MD, Director of the Congenital Heart Center and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, is the 2017 recipient of the Antoine Marfan Award, the highest medical honor awarded by The Marfan Foundation. The award will be presented in Atlanta on August 4 during the Foundation’s 33rd Annual Conference. Nearly 750 will be on-hand, including individuals and families with Marfan and related disorders and leading medical experts from around the country.

Dr. Connolly, who is Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, and a Consultant in Cardiovascular Diseases and Vice-Chair for Education in the Department of Cardiovascular Diseases at Mayo Clinic, has served on The Marfan Foundation’s Professional Advisory Board since 2006 and was named Chair in January 2017. She has been a champion for the Marfan and related disorders community since establishing the Marfan and Thoracic Aortic Clinic at Mayo Clinic, where she served as director until 2012. In addition, she has made significant contributions to research, including the multi-center study funded by the Foundation, Aortic Valve Outcomes in Marfan Patients, for which she has served as head of the imaging core since 2006.