Mario Goessl, MD, PhD
My specialties:
- Cardiovascular disease
- Internal medicine
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Professional interests:
- Mitraclip
- Paravalvular leak closure
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
- endothelial dysfunction
- Transcatheter aortic and mitral valve replacement (TAVR/TMVR)
- Aortic Valve Stenosis
- Asd/pfo closure
- Watchman (left atrial appendage closure)
- Transcatheter tricuspid valve repair
- Mitral valve regurgitation/stenosis
Mario Goessl, MD, PhD joined Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute – Minneapolis in 2016 from Dean Clinic, Madison WI where he was the director of the structural heart disease program and a clinical adjunct assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He was previously an assistant professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Goessl is the director for transcatheter valve therapies, the director for both, the interventional and structural heart disease interventions fellowships, the director of the left atrial appendage occlusion program (Watchman) and the director of congenital interventional therapies at the Minneapolis Heart Institute. He has authored, or co-authored, over 120 published manuscripts and book chapters, and is a national and international speaker in the areas of valvular and coronary heart disease.
Dr. Goessl’s special interest is structural heart interventions, such as transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR), MitraClip/Pascal (M-TEER), transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement (TPVR), transcatheter tricuspid valve repair (T-TEER), left atrial appendage closure (Watchman), ASD/PFO closure and similar therapies.
His research interests include community screening programs for valvular heart disease and efforts to increase education on and access to structural heart disease intervention for underserved populations.
He is a registered Yoga teacher (RYT) and embraces Yoga as a mind-body exercise and lifestyle intervention that can be incorporated into advanced cardiovascular care.
Credentials
- MD
- PhD
Board-certified specialties
- Cardiovascular disease
- Internal medicine
Personal interests
- Cycling
- Food
- GSP (bird hunting)
- Opera
- Soccer
- Theater
- Travel
Educational institutions
- Mayo Clinic Rochester
- University of Cologne (Germany)
Memberships
- American College of Cardiology
- American Heart Association
- European Society of Cardiology
- Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions
Current licenses and certifications
- Cardiology - MN, WI, Germany
- Internal Medicine - MN, WI, Germany
- Interventional Cardiology - MN, WI, Germany
Internships
- Mayo Clinic Rochester
Residencies
- Mayo Clinic Rochester
- University of Essen-Duisburg (Germany)
Fellowships
- Cardiology, University of Essen-Duisburg (Germany)
- Cardiology, Mayo Clinic
- Interventional Cardiology, Mayo Clinic
- Advanced Structural Interventional Cardiology, Mayo Clinic
Years of experience
- 10
Additional languages spoken
- German
Hospital affiliations
- Abbott Northwestern Hospital
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Major health plans we participate in
- Allina Health | Aetna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
- HealthPartners
- Medica
- PreferredOne*
- SelectCare/LaborCare
- UCare
- UnitedHealthcare
Other health plans we participate in
- Medicaid/Medicare*
- Aetna
- America's PPO
- First Health/Coventry
- CIGNA
- Humana
- Hennepin Health (formerly Metropolitan Health Plan)
- PrimeWest
- South Country Health Alliance
- United Behavioral Health
- Wisconsin Physician Services (WPS)