Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, M.D., named co-director, Artificial Intelligence Innovations group, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester

Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, M.D. (CV ’01), Division of Preventive Cardiology, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, was named a co-director of the department’s Artificial Intelligence Innovations group.

He will leverage the large digital vaults of stored ECGs, echocardiograms, stress tests, nuclear images, angiograms and other big data sets to develop new tools to advance the field and the care of people with heart disease. Dr. Lopez-Jimenez’s co-director is engineer Itzhak Attia.

Dr. Lopez-Jimenez is a professor of medicine in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science.