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Birgit Kantor, M.D.

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Birgit Kantor, M.D.
Location: Minnesota
  • Primary Appointment
  • Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Academic Rank
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
Clinical Profile

Summary

Dr. Kantor is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and a Senior Associate Consultant in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and the Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic.

Her translational and interdisciplinary research is NIH funded. It lies at the interface of vascular biology of atherosclerosis and cardiac imaging. She has a special interest in diabetic patients who are at significantly increased risk of developing heart disease. Her NIH awards are entitled â??Collaterals in Aging: Enhanced by Genetic/Cell Therapyâ?? and â??In Vivo Localization of Vulnerable Plaqueâ??. In these grants, she applies dual-energy CT and microscopic-CT (micro-CT) to small and large animal models of atherosclerosis and diabetes to study mechanisms of ischemia.

Dr Kantor has won numerous research awards. She is a member of two National Study Sections and serves on two Mayo Foundation Committees, which oversee clinical research. She has recently co-edited a book on Computed Tomography for the Cardiovascular System.

Recent publications

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Education

Clinical Fellowship – Advanced Invasive Diagnostic Adult Cardiology
Mayo Clinic Rochester

Research Fellowship
Center for Vascular Biology and Interventions, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester

Fellowship – Cardiovascular
Evangelisches Krankenhaus Dinslaken and Marienhospital Wesel, Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany, Germany

Ph.D. – Clinical Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medicine
Heinrich-Heine Universitaet, Duesseldorf, Germany, Germany

Residency – Internal Medicine
Evangelisches Krankenhaus Dinslaken and Marienhospital Wesel, Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany, Germany

Internship – "Arztin im Praktikum, AiP," First-Year Internal Medicine
Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany, Germany

M.D.
Rheinisch-Westfalische Technisde Hochschule Aachen, Germany, Germany

Clerkship – Neurology
National Institute for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London, UK

Clerkship – Internal Medicine
Rheinisch-Westfalische Technisde Hochschule Aachen, Germany, Germany

Clerkship – Surgery
Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto


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