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 highly rated in 10 conditions, according to our data. 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.
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1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
Clinical Research
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Areas of Expertise
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- 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.