Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Dalhousie University
Biography
Sharon Mulvagh MD FRCPC FACC FASE FAHA
Dr. Mulvagh is Professor of Medicine at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Professor Emeritus at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA, and President of the Canadian Society of Echocardiography.
Dr. Mulvagh is a clinical cardiologist, echocardiographer, and clinician investigator for multiple Federal (CIHR-Canadian Institute of Health Research) and Foundation (Heart and Stroke Canada; Dalhousie University) funded collaborative research projects in Canada and USA focused on women and heart disease, contrast echocardiography, and POCUS. She is Co-Director of the Women's Heart Health Clinic at the Maritime Heart Center in Halifax, NS, and Immediate Past Director of Dalhousie University GIM POCUS program. She is a current member of National Board of Echocardiography (NBE) Critical Care Echocardiography Exam Writing Committee, and the NBE Critical Care Echocardiography and Adult Comprehensive Echocardiography Certification Committees, co-director of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) Echo Hawaii, and serves on the International Contrast Ultrasound Society Board of Directors. She is a past member of ASE Board of Directors and Past-Chair of ASE Scientific Sessions 2022, Immediate Past-Chair of the Nova Scotia Provincial Board of Directors for Heart & Stroke Canada, and Immediate Past-Chair of Canadian Women's Heart Health Alliance Knowledge Translation and Mobilization Working Group, She has chaired numerous echocardiographic guidelines imaging task forces and committees, including the initial consensus statement and subsequent guidelines and updates on Ultrasound Enhancing Agents. She has over 150 peer reviewed publications, and is on the editorial boards of Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Dr. Mulvagh received her medical degree, magna cum laude, from University of Ottawa, Canada, interned at Dalhousie University, then completed her residency at Boston University, and cardiology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. There, she consulted for Universities Space Research Associates (USRA) at NASA, Johnson Space Center, monitoring cardiac responses during spacewalks from Mission Control, training astronauts to do echocardiograms during spaceflight and developing countermeasures to microgravity. She continues to intermittently serve on NASA peer review committees.
Dr. Mulvagh retired from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN after a 26-year career there focused on echocardiography and women and heart disease. Subsequently, she and her husband returned to Canada and established a 32-acre vineyard in the Annapolis Valley. She has trained for and received her Winemaking Certificate from University of California, Davis. When not engaging in her medical practice and numerous professional volunteering responsibilities, she enjoys traveling to see her family, working in the vineyard and winemaking, being outdoors and running (has done 8 marathons including Boston twice), watersports and sailing, gardening and farm-to-table heart-healthy cooking.