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Louis A. Cannon, MD
Louis A. Cannon, MD, FACA, FCCP, FACC, FACP, is a past Judah Volkman Scholar in Residence, triple board certified, and has been named in the Top 100 CardioVascular Specialists in America. He has lectured worldwide and recently performed potentially life-saving procedures in Singapore, as well as at the Montreal Heart Institute on a 14 yr old girl. He is the previous Founding President of the Michigan CardioVascular Institute in Saginaw, Michigan. In 2004 he accepted a position as the Program Director of the new Northern Michigan Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute and serves as President of the Cardiac and Vascular Research Center of Northern Michigan, bringing over two decades of clinical trial experience using cutting edge technologies to treat cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Cannon graduated from Wright State School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio with an honorary Alpha Omega Alpha degree in 1984. He did his residency training in Akron, Ohio, in a combined Internal/Emergency medicine program, becoming board certified in both. He then completed an Interventional Cardiology fellowship at the University of Cincinnati in 1991. Dr. Cannon is a recognized leader in cardiovascular research and development. His current national (medical) research focuses on drugs which reduce blockages from forming inside heart stents and the use of ultrasound to open blockages that are totally occluded. He is excited about the opportunities for his patients to gain access to the world’s best technologies available for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Cannon has been issued two U.S. medical patents in the field of cardiovascular treatment and has been listed as one of “Americas Top Cardiologists” for years.
Dr. Cannon is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Interventional Cardiology, and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Chest Physicians, the American College of Physicians, the American College of Angiology, the American Association of Emergency Physicians, and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions. He has been inducted into Who’s Who in American Medicine and has served on the board of governors of the Michigan Chapter of the American College of Cardiology. He has hundreds of publications including abstracts, manuscripts, textbook chapters and invited editorials.
Specializations:
- Clinical Research
- General Cardiology
- Echocardiography
- Cardiac Catheterization
- Carotid Stenting
- Peripheral Vascular Intervention
- Device Implantation
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)