Joao Lima, MD

Professional Titles

• Director of Cardiovascular Imaging

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Medicine

Background

Centers and Institutes

• Heart and Vascular Institute
• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Service

Videos

• Meet our Experts - Dr. Joao Lima

• CT Perfusion Study: Johns Hopkins Medicine

Recent News Articles and Media Coverage

Additional Academic Titles

Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science

Research Interests

Cardiac CT, Cardiac MR, Left Ventricular Modeling - Heart Failure, Myocardial Viability, Subclinical Atherosclerosis

Lab Website

Lima Lab - Lab Website

• The Lima Lab's research is concentrated on the development and application of imaging and technology to address scientific and clinical problems involving the heart and vascular system. Specifically, our research is focused on developing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast techniques to investigate microvascular function in patients and experimental animals with myocardial infarction; functional reserve secondary to dobutamine stimulation and myocardial viability assessed by sodium imaging; and cardiac MRI and computed tomography (CT) program development of techniques to characterize atherosclerosis in humans with cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease. Current projects include: - The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study - The MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis) Study - The Coronary Artery Evaluation using 64-row Multidetector Computed Tomography Angiography (CORE64) Study Joao Lima, MD, is a professor of medicine, radiology and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Selected Publications

• J.A.C. Lima; R.M. Judd; A. Bazille; S.P. Schulman; E. Atalar; E.A. Zerhouni. Regional heterogeneity of human myocardial infarcts demonstrated by contrast-enhanced MRI: Potential mechanisms. Circulation. 1995;92(5):1117-1125.

• Brage H. Amundsen; Thomas Helle-Valle; Thor Edvardsen; Hans Torp; Jonas Crosby; Erik Lyseggen; Asbjørn Støylen; Halfdan Ihlen; Joao A.C. Lima; Otto A. Smiseth; et al. Noninvasive myocardial strain measurement by speckle tracking echocardiography: Validation against sonomicrometry and tagged magnetic resonance imaging. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2006;47(4):789-793.

• Ilan S. Wittstein; David R. Thiemann; Joao A.C. Lima; Kenneth L. Baughman; Steven P. Schulman; Gary Gerstenblith; Katherine C. Wu; Jeffrey J. Rade; Trinity J. Bivalacqua; Hunter C. Champion. Neurohumoral features of myocardial stunning due to sudden emotional stress. New England Journal of Medicine. 2005;352(6):539-548.

• Katherine C. Wu; Elias A. Zerhouni; Robert M. Judd; Carlos H. Lugo-Olivieri; Lili A. Barouch; Steven P. Schulman; Roger S. Blumenthal; Joao A. C. Lima. Prognostic significance of microvascular obstruction by magnetic resonance imaging in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Circulation. 1998;97(8):765-772.

• Matthew J. Budoff; Stephan Achenbach; Roger S. Blumenthal; J. Jeffrey Carr; Jonathan G. Goldin; Philip Greenland; Alan D. Guerci; Joao A.C. Lima; Daniel J. Rader; Geoffrey D. Rubin;et al. Assessment of coronary artery disease by cardiac computed tomography: A scientific statement from the American Heart Association Committee on Cardiovascular Imaging and Intervention, Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention, and Committee on Cardiac Imaging, Council on Clinical Cardiology. Circulation. 2006;114(16):1761-1791.

• R.M. Judd; C.H. Lugo-Olivieri; M. Arai; T. Kondo; P. Croisille; J.A.C. Lima; V. Mohan; L.C. Becker; E.A. Zerhouni. Physiological basis of myocardial contrast enhancement in fast magnetic resonance images of 2-day-old reperfused canine infarcts. Circulation. 1995;92(7):1902-1910.

• Raymond J. Kim; Enn-Ling Chen; Joao A. C. Lima; Robert M. Judd. Myocardial Gd-DTPA kinetics determine MRI contrast enhancement and reflect the extent and severity of myocardial injury after acute reperfused infarction. Circulation. 1996;94(12):3318-3326.

• Thomas Helle-Valle; Jonas Crosby; Thor Edvardsen; Erik Lyseggen; Brage H Amundsen; Hans-Jørgen Smith; Boaz D Rosen; Joao A C Lima; Hans Torp; Halfdan Ihlen; et al. New noninvasive method for assessment of left ventricular rotation: speckle tracking echocardiography. Circulation. 2005;112(20):3149-3156.

Honors

Fellow, American College of Cardiology, 1/1/93

Memberships

• American Heart Association,

  Council on Circulation and Basic Science, Fellow
  
  

• Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Association
• American Society of Echocardiography
• International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
• Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance,

  Board of Trustees

• Society of Cardiovascular CT,

  Executive Board - Treasurer

• American Heart Association,

  Council on Clinical Cardiology

• American Heart Association,

  Committee on Cardiac Imaging

• American Heart Association,

  Council on Cardiovascular Radiology - Fellow

• American College of Cardiology,

  Committee on Cardiovascular Imaging