Sharon L. Mulvagh, MD

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, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. She is a clinical investigative cardiologist active at the international, national, local and institutional levels in heart disease in women and noninvasive cardiovascular imaging, specifically echocardiographic imaging using newer technologies including contrast echocardiography and myocardial perfusion imaging to evaluate ischemic heart disease and coronary blood flow during metabolic alterations. She is an internationally recognized educator and speaker on cardiovascular imaging and women’s cardiovascular issues. Dr. Mulvagh has ongoing studies investigating the role of noninvasive testing for the diagnosis of coronary heart disease and endothelial dysfunction in women at risk. She is a co-investigator for the multicenter KEEPs trial, evaluating the cardiovascular effects of hormone therapy.

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.

Dr. Mulvagh is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology, the American Society of Echocardiography, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. She is an elected member of Sigma Xi, and has served on the Board of Directors for the American Society of Echocardiography as well as having past elected membership in the Aerospace Medical Association. She has chaired and participated in numerous committees including the American Society of Echocardiography Task Force for Clinical Applications of Ultrasound Contrast, Committee on Live Programs, Research Committee, and NASA Scientific Working Group and Peer Review sessions.

Dr. Mulvagh has moderated and chaired many scientific sessions for the American College of Cardiology, the American Society of Echocardiography, and the American Heart Association. She was the medical chair for the First Inaugural Go Red for Women American Heart Association Luncheon in Rochester, MN, and serves on the Mayo Women's Health Executive Subcommittee. Her publications include numerous manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and invited articles and book chapters addressing investigative frontiers in echocardiography and women and heart disease.