Sharon Mulvagh, MD, FRCPC, FACC, FAHA, FASE
Halifax, NS | @HeartDocSharon
Past Chair, Knowledge Translation and Mobilization Working Group, CWHHA
Co-Director Women’s Heart Health Clinic, QEII Health Sciences Centre
Professor of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
Professor Emeritus, Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN USA | @HeartDocSharon
CWHHA member since 2018
Biography
Dr. Sharon Mulvagh is Professor of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she is also Co-director of the Women’s Heart Health Clinic at the Maritime Heart Center, and Director of the Point of Care Ultrasound Internal Medicine Program, Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre. Dr. Mulvagh returned to Canada in 2016, after a 26 year career at Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, where she is also Professor Emeritus, and Past-Director of the Women’s Heart Clinic, and Past-Associate Director of Preventive Cardiology. She is a clinical and investigative cardiologist recognized nationally and internationally for her research and education focused on heart disease in women, cardio-oncology, noninvasive cardiovascular imaging, specifically echocardiographic imaging using new technologies including contrast echocardiography and myocardial perfusion imaging, and point of care ultrasound, on which she has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She has collaborative and independent research funding from CIHR, CCS, Heart and Stroke, and Dalhousie University for projects involving SCAD, POCUS, and vascular perfusion imaging.
She is the current Vice President of the Canadian Society of Echocardiography, Chair of the Nova Scotia Provincial Board for Heart and Stroke, Past-Chair of the CWHHA Knowledge Translation and Mobilization Working Group, Abstract Chair of the American Society of Echocardiography 2021 Scientific Sessions, and incoming Scientific Sessions Chair for 2022, Member of the Board of Directors for the International Contrast Ultrasound Society, member of the National Board of Echocardiography Critical Care Echocardiography Exam Writing and Credentialing Committees, and member of the American Society of Echocardiography Contrast Echocardiography Task Force.
Dr. Mulvagh graduated magna cum laude with her MD from the University of Ottawa, then completed internship at Dalhousie University, residency at Boston University, and fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, where she also worked at NASA training astronauts to perform echocardiography in space, and studied the differential effects of sex and gender on exposure to microgravity. She is a mother of three, an avid runner, having completed 8 marathons, including Boston twice, Chicago, and numerous Twin Cities Marathons, and co-owns a vineyard with her husband, where they also keep bees.
