John R. Lesser MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, FSCCT

John R. Lesser, MD, FSCCT, is Director of Cardiovascular CT and MRI at the Minneapolis Heart Institute/Abbott Northwestern Hospital. He was recently president of the Cardiovascular Services Division at Abbott Northwestern Hospital and is on the Cardiovascular Service line Steering Committee for Allina Health System.

He graduated with a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MD from the University of Florida. Dr. Lesser was a resident in Internal medicine and Chief Medicine Resident at the University of Wisconsin. He completed his training as a fellow and Chief Fellow in Cardiology and had an additional interventional cardiology fellowship at the University of Minnesota. Previously, he has been the Director of the Cardiac Catheterization lab at Abbott Northwestern Hospital.

His clinical interests include adult and pediatric cardiac and vascular CT and MR. Research interests include the clinical application of Cardiac CT Angiography techniques in adult and pediatric clinical practice as well as cardiovascular MRI with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Dr. Lesser has published more than 100 related articles, abstracts, and book chapters.