Patricia A Pellikka MD, FACC, FAHA, FASE

Patricia A. Pellikka, MD, FACC, FAHA, FASE, FESC, is President-Elect, Mayo Clinic Officers and Councilors and the Betty Knight Scripps-George M. Gura, Jr, MD Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases Clinical Research at Mayo Clinic. She is the immediate past Vice Chair for Academic Affairs for the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Director of the Ultrasound Research Center, and Chair for the Division of Cardiovascular Ultrasound at Mayo Clinic.  She is the recipient of the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine’s Outstanding Mentorship Award. She has more than 800 publications with an H index > 80. Outside of Mayo Clinic, she has served as president of the American Society of Echocardiography, member of the External Advisory Council to the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, and on the editorial boards of the major cardiology journals.  She is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. Thirty-five years ago, Dr. Pellikka established stress echocardiography at Mayo Clinic.  She has chaired ASE’s guidelines writing group on stress echocardiography in 2007 and 2020. Her current research interests include application of artificial intelligence to assessment of echocardiographic images.