Advancing Structural Heart Care and Embracing AI with Dr. Mario Göessl of Allina Health
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This is Laura Dearda with the Beckers Healthcare Podcast. I'm thrilled today to be joined by Dr. Mario Gusell, Director of Interventional Cardiology Fellowships, Director of Transcaffeter Valve Therapies, and Interventional Cardiologist at Alina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute. Doctor Gusell, it's a pleasure to have you on the podcast today.
Thank you for having us, Laura. My pleasure.
Absolutely. Now I'm excited to have you on because it'll be uh fun to hear just some of the great things you're doing at Alina and really how you're thinking about the future. But before we dive in, can you introduce yourself and tell us just a little bit about your background?
Yeah, um happy to. I'm an uh interventional cardiologist here at the Minneapolis Art Institute uh Alina Health. Um and as you probably know, some of us uh specialize a little bit in uh structural heart disease. So most of my practice, I would say sixty, seventy percent is probably structural heart disease, which uh includes the uh valve interventions like say mitroclip uh pascal taver devices um uh tricuspid replacement devices, pulmonary replacement devices, watchmen, uh these kind of interventions. I'm also um a director of the um fellowship programme, so I'm always um at the pulse of what uh the younger folks uh are feeling right now and in which direction they wanna go. when they apply to our fellowships interventional and structural.
And yeah, have some uh administrative roles uh here in our practice too. Uh my my history is that I actually trained in Germany first, um, and then I did some training here in the United States at the Mayo Clinic. And this is my uh second uh private practice or academically oriented private practice appointment.
That's fantastic to hear, you know, and uh interesting to understand that dynamic um with leading the fellowship and having your uh finger on the pulse of what some of the up and coming generation in newer training physicians are thinking about. What have you noticed over the last uh couple of years? Is there any trends or or things that um have come up that are different than they were in the past?
Yeah, I I think that um We in our training programs we we certainly have seen an impact of, for example, the uh covet pandemic. And there was some impact on training. I would say we have observed a little bit less um independence of um trainees coming out of that um, you know, two, three, four years that than we saw before. There is, I think The Current trainees often try to cover multiple sub specialties during their fellowships and may, you know, be a little bit of undecided or unfocused on, you know, their training trajectory. Um where, you know, years ago we have seen folks, you know, clearly voicing the interest in structural heart disease. We can sometimes now see folks saying, like, oh, I'm also interested in advanced heart failure or always interested in advanced coronary procedures.
And I always find that very difficult to accomplish and I think due to the Job market being a little bit more uncertain than it was years ago. Mm, my feeling is that some um, fellows or trainees are trying to cover as many sub specialties as possible to actually
What is Dr. Göessl’s background and role in structural heart disease?
you know, have a maybe competitive advantage over other applicants. Where I think most of us still feel like if you focus and follow one passion, you probably have a better success.
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