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Michael J. Ackerman, MD, Pediatric Cardiology, Rochester, MN, Mayo Clinic Hospital - Rochester

Michael J.AckermanMDPhD

Pediatric Cardiology Rochester, MN

Pediatric Cardiac Genetics, Pediatric Electrophysiology

Genetic Cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic Windland Smith Rice Cardiovascular Genomics Research Professor Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Pharmacology Director, Windland Smith Rice Genetic Heart Rhythm Clinic President of the Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes (SADS) Foundation

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Summary

  • Dr. Michael J. Ackerman is a genetic cardiologist in Rochester, MN. He received his medical degree from the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and his PhD from the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 1995. After residency training in Pediatrics and fellowship training in pediatric cardiology at Mayo Clinic, he joined Mayo Clinic's faculty in 2000. He specializes in genetic cardiology and takes care of patients and families at risk of premature sudden cardiac death from a variety of genetic heart diseases like long QT syndrome and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the Windland Smith Rice Genetic Heart Rhythm Clinic. His research team is devoted to "healing the sick and advancing the science" as it relates to these genetic channelopathies and cardiomyopathies.
  • The Mayo Clinic Windland Smith Rice Genetic Heart Rhythm Clinic

    Welcome to the Mayo Clinic Windland Smith Rice Genetic Heart Rhythm Clinic and Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory directed by Michael J. Ackerman, MD, PhD

Education & Training

  • Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester)
    Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester)Fellowship, Pediatric Cardiology, 1998 - 2000
  • Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester)
    Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester)Residency, Pediatrics, 1995 - 1998
  • Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
    Mayo Clinic College of MedicineClass of 1995, MD, PhD
  • Luther College
    Luther CollegeB.A., Chemistry and Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, 1984 - 1988

Certifications & Licensure

  • FL State Medical License
    FL State Medical License 2020 - 2025
  • MN State Medical License
    MN State Medical License 1996 - 2024
  • AZ State Medical License
    AZ State Medical License 2022 - 2024
  • American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Cardiology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Distinguished Scientist Award Heart Rhythm Society, 2018
  • America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2005-2016
  • Distinguished Clinician Award Mayo Clinic, 2015
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Electromechanical Window Negativity in Genotyped Long-QT Syndrome Patients: Relation to Arrhythmia Risk  
    Ter Bekke RM, Haugaa KH, van den Wijngaard A, Bos JM, Ackerman MJ, Edvardsen T, Volders PG, Eur Heart Journal, 9/8/2014
  • Reduced Junctional Na/Ca2+-exchanger Activity Contributes to Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+ Leak in Junctophilin-2 Deficient Mice  
    Wang W, Landstrom AP, Wang Q, Munro ML, Beavers D, Ackerman MJ, Soeller C, Wehrens XH, Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, 9/5/2014
  • Compound Heterozygous Mutations in the SCN5A-Encoded Nav15 Cardiac Sodium Channel Resulting in Atrial Standstill and His-Purkinje System Disease  
    Baskar S, Ackerman MJ, Clements D, Mayuga KA, Aziz PF, J Pediatr, 8/27/2014
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Books/Book Chapters

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Abstracts/Posters

  • Sudden Cardiac Arrest During Sex in Patients with either CPVT or LQTS: A Rare but Shocking Experience
    Loar R, Bos JM, Cannon BC, Ackerman MJ, Heart Rhythm, 1/1/2014
  • Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome and the Impact on Insurability: A North American Survey
    Mohammed S, Lim Z, Potts JE, Etheridge SP, Lara A, Husband PR, Sherwin ED, Ackerman MJ, Sanatani S, Heart Rhythm, 1/1/2014
  • In-Silico Tools Including the Probability of Pathogenicity Calculator and the Identification of SCN5A Variants with Aberrant Functional Properties
    Kapplinger JD, Ye D, Giudicessi JR, Tester DJ, Valdivia CR, Makielski JC, Wilde AAM, Ackerman MJ, Heart Rhythm, 1/1/2014
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Lectures

  • The Cardiac Channelopathies 
    Moscow, Russia - 6/12/2014
  • The Molecular Autopsy for Sudden Unexplained Death in the Young 
    Moscow, Russia - 6/12/2014
  • Latest Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies for the Congenital Long QT Syndromes 
    MA General Hospital for Children, Boston, MA - 5/15/2014
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Other

  • Medical Edge 
  • WCCO Lifeline: SUDs 
  • Lifeline: Discovery Health 
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Grant Support

  • Cardiac Channel Mutations In Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health &Human Development2007–2011
  • Cardiac Channel Mutations In SIDSEunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health &Human Development2004–2005
  • Cardiac Channel Mutations In SIDSEunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health &Human Development2002–2003

Hospital Affiliations