Sharon L. Mulvagh BS, MD, FASE, FACC, FRCP

Dr. Mulvagh is Professor of Medicine, Mayo College of Medicine, Consultant in Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, and Director of the Women's Heart Clinic at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. She is a clinical cardiologist active at the international, national, local and institutional levels in noninvasive cardiovascular imaging, specifically echocardiographic imaging using newer technologies including contrast echocardiography and myocardial perfusion imaging. Dr. Mulvagh also has a special interest in heart disease in women.

She is an active investigator in clinical and translational imaging research, and an internationally recognized educator and speaker on cardiovascular imaging and women's cardiovascular issues. Dr. Mulvagh evaluates and counsels patients in the Women's Heart Clinic at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, and has ongoing studies investigating the role of noninvasive testing for the diagnosis of coronary heart disease in women at risk, as well prospective assessment of the effects of hormone therapy on the heart and vascular system.

Most recently, she has been actively collaborating with her endocrine colleagues, exploring the physiologic effects of varying glycemic states and insulin resistance on coronary blood flow, in order to gain mechanistic insights into diabetes and heart disease. She earned her doctorate in medicine, graduating magna cum laude, from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. She completed her internship at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, residency in internal medicine at Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, and fellowship in cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. She has practiced emergency and internal medicine in Ontario, Canada, and was a visiting scientist at NASA Johnson Space Center, and Clinical Instructor for the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, prior to arriving at Mayo Clinic in 1990.