Our Team
Michael McConnell, MD, MSEE
Dr. McConnell is the Acting Director of the Preventive Cardiology Clinic. He is an Associate Professor of medicine and Director of Non-invasive Imaging in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. He is also an attending physician in the Echocardiography lab and the Cardiology Clinic.
Dr. McConnell graduated from MIT with degrees in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering and received his MD from Stanford University in 1990. He did his Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine training at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston and then joined the faculty at the Brigham and Harvard Medical School in 1996. He returned to Stanford in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in 1998. As a result of his combined interest in cardiovascular disease and heart disease prevention, he joined the Preventive Cardiology team in 2002.
Specialties: Noninvasive Imaging, Preventive Cardiology, Coronary Artery Disease
Joshua W. Knowles, MD, PhD
Joshua Knowles is an attending physician in the Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease’s Familial Coronary Risk Clinic. He is currently a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Medicine-Cardiovascular Medicine.
Dr. Knowles earned his MD and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed his internship, residency and Cardiology fellowship training at Stanford. His clinical interests include medical therapy for coronary artery disease and associated risk factors as well as insulin resistance. He is actively involved in several research projects with the goal of understanding the genetic basis of these conditions, and developing ways to translate these findings to clinical practice. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Heart Association (AHA).
Sandra Tsai, MD, MPH
Dr. Tsai is an attending physician in the Preventive Cardiology Clinic and the Women’s Heart Health Clinic. She is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of General Internal Medicine and will be an attending physician in the Stanford Internal Medicine Clinic starting in 2011.
Dr. Tsai graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in Biology and received her M.D. from UT Southwestern Medical School in 1995. She completed her Internal Medicine residency training at UT Southwestern in 1998, obtained her M.P.H. from UC Berkeley in 2003, and completed her post-doctoral research and preventive cardiology fellowship at the Stanford Prevention Research Center in 2010. She joined the Stanford clinical faculty in August 2010.
Specialties: Preventive Cardiology, Women's Heat Health
Mary Ann Champagne RN, MSN, CNS
Ms. Champagne is a Clinical Nurse Specialist and the Nurse Coordinator for the Preventive Cardiology Clinic. Mary Ann serves as the primary contact for all the Preventive Cardiology Clinic patients and also is a patient care provider.
She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Seattle University and her Master of Science and Clinical Nurse Specialist degree from the University of California, San Francisco.
She has spent the majority of her professional career at Stanford in the area of risk reduction and prevention of cardiovascular disease; initially employed in the coronary care unit and then moving to primary and secondary prevention research and clinical practice. She has also been a medical supervisor in a local cardiac rehabilitation program for many years.
Specialties: Lifestyle and medication interventions for abnormal cholesterol, high blood pressure and abnormal blood sugar.
Jane Borchers, MPH, RD
Jane is the dietitian for the Preventive Cardiology Clinic. She provides nutrition counseling to clinic patients regarding dietary measures to lower high cholesterol and triglycerides levels, to reduce high blood pressure and to improve blood glucose levels. She is responsible for dietary assessment for new clinic patients.
Jane received her Masters Degree in Public Health Nutrition (MPH) from University of California, Berkeley in 1986 and obtained her Registered Dietitian certification the same year.
Jane has worked on a number of cardiovascular risk reduction studies at Stanford Prevention Research Center. She has been dietitian for Preventive Cardiology since 1996.
Specialities: Cardiovascular Nutrition for abnormal cholesterol, blood pressure and elevated fasting glucose