
Overview
Dr. Joao Lima is a professor of medicine, radiology and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His pioneering work in cardiac imaging using advanced MRI, CT and echocardiography has led to noninvasive techniques for predicting cardiovascular disease and calculating its extent, as well as measuring the effectiveness of modern cardiac treatments. He holds numerous patents on devices and methods for cardiac imaging and image-guided therapies. Dr. Lima graduated medical school at the University of Bahia, Brazil. He completed his cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins and spent two years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania before returning to Hopkins as a faculty member in 1992. A long-time investigator with the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), Dr. Lima is credited with more than 175 articles out of that study and nearly 575 publications over his career. He is associate editor of Journal of the American College of Cardiology and serves on the editorial board of the Italian Journal of Cardiology while reviewing for other journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation and Annals of Internal Medicine. Dr. Lima has been invited to present his research throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Dr. Lima is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Menopause. His top areas of expertise are Atherosclerosis, Heart Attack, Apoplexy, Heart Failure, and Bone Marrow Aspiration.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 141 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 4 articles in the study of Menopause.
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Locations
1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
Clinical Research
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Johns Hopkins Health Care & Surgery Center - Green Spring Station, Lutherville
Dr. Erin D. Michos is a Professor of Medicine within the Division of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, with joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is the Director of Women's Cardiovascular Health and the Associate Director of Preventive Cardiology within the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Michos is an internationally known expert in Preventive Cardiology and Women’s Health, having authored >700 publications and 11 book chapters. Her research involves (1) Women’s Cardiovascular Health; (2) Lipids and Lipid management; (3) Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic and Obesity disease management (4) Coronary artery calcium, inflammation and biomarkers of cardiovascular risk. She is the co-Editor-in-Chief for the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology. She is Co-Director of the IMPACT Center (Improving Participation Among Diverse Populations in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials) at Johns Hopkins, funded by the American Heart Association (AHA). She is a co-investigator in several NIH-funded studies including the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities cohorts. She has served as the Training Director for four AHA Strategic Focused Research Networks. She has mentored over 60 individuals and the recipient of 2 mentoring awards. Additionally, she was the recipient of the Nanette Wegner Award for Women’s Health Medical Leadership by the Women Heart Organization and the Donna Vogel Women’s Health Champion Award by Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Michos completed medical school at Northwestern University, Internal Medicine residency and Cardiology fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and a Masters of Health Science degree at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Michos is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Menopause. Her top areas of expertise are Atherosclerosis, Vitamin D Deficiency, Peripartum Cardiomyopathy, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI), and Thrombectomy.
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Lisa Martin is a Cardiologist in Washington,, Washington, D.c.. Dr. Martin is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Menopause. Her top areas of expertise are Menopause, Heart Failure, Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension, and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).
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Pamela Ouyang is a Cardiologist in Baltimore,, Maryland. Dr. Ouyang is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Menopause. Her top areas of expertise are Atherosclerosis, Menopause, Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), Heart Attack, and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).
Areas of Expertise
MediFind evaluates expertise by pulling from factors such as number of articles a doctor has published in medical journals, participation in clinical trials, speaking at industry conferences, prescribing and referral patterns, and strength of connections with other experts in their field.
Learn more about MediFind’s expert tiers
- Elite
- AtherosclerosisDr. Lima isElite. Learn about Atherosclerosis.
- Distinguished
- Heart AttackDr. Lima isDistinguished. Learn about Heart Attack.
- Advanced
- ApoplexyDr. Lima isAdvanced. Learn about Apoplexy.
- Arterial EmbolismDr. Lima isAdvanced. Learn about Arterial Embolism.
- Atrial FibrillationDr. Lima isAdvanced. Learn about Atrial Fibrillation.
- Bone Marrow AspirationDr. Lima isAdvanced. Learn about Bone Marrow Aspiration.
- Coronary Heart DiseaseDr. Lima isAdvanced. Learn about Coronary Heart Disease.
- Heart FailureDr. Lima isAdvanced. Learn about Heart Failure.
- Experienced
- Abdominal Obesity Metabolic Syndrome
- ArrhythmiasDr. Lima isExperienced. Learn about Arrhythmias.
- Atrial TachycardiaDr. Lima isExperienced. Learn about Atrial Tachycardia.
- Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia (AVNRT)
- Bidirectional TachycardiaDr. Lima isExperienced. Learn about Bidirectional Tachycardia.
- Brugada SyndromeDr. Lima isExperienced. Learn about Brugada Syndrome.

