Paul Sorajja, MD is Director, Center for Valve and Structural Heart Disease; Roger L. and Lynn C. Headrick Family Chair of the Valve Science Center for the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a co-author of Structural Heart Cases: A Color Atlas of Pearls and Pitfalls, The Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Handbook, 4th Edition, and Cardiac Catheterization Handbook, 6th Edition. 

Dr. Sorajja received his medical degree from Mayo Medical School, after which he performed fellowships in Cardiovascular Diseases at Mayo and at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, NHS in London. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Interventional Cardiology.

His clinical practice specializes in interventional cardiology, with a focus on catheter-based therapy of valvular and structural heart disease. He was part of the team that performed the first transcatheter mitral valve replacement in the U.S. for a patient with native mitral regurgitation in 2015, and has the highest worldwide experience with TMVR.

Dr. Sorajja has published over 200 manuscripts and book chapters, with expertise in cardiac hemodynamics, clinical education, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and percutaneous therapy of structural heart disease. He has served in leadership positions in multiple national societies, and is a founding Board member of the Cardiovascular Innovations Foundation.  Dr. Sorajja has been an editor-in-chief for numerous textbooks on cardiac catheterization. He has served as a program director for interventional cardiology fellowships, and has received awards for his expertise in medical education. In 2017, he received the Robert G. Hauser Award for Leadership Excellence in Innovation from the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. Dr. Sorajja is also highly active in intellectual property development.