Physician Investigator (Cl) Cardiovascular Research Center, Mass General Research Institute

Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School

Assistant Physician Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital

MD University of Vienna School of Medicine 2001

adaptation, physiological; echocardiography; mitral valve; mitral valve insufficiency; mitral valve prolapse

Jacob Dal-Bianco, MD is a cardiologist and expert in valvular heart disease with special interest in the mitral valve. His research  is focused on how and why mitral valve leaflets change when diseased with the goal to develop therapies to prevent heart valve disease.

Dr. Dal-Bianco's is a graduate of the University of Vienna Medical School, Austria. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, followed by fellowships in Echocardiography and Cardiovascular Diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. He joined the staff of the Mass General Hospital in 2013 as a faculty member of the Cardiology Division and MGH Heart Valve Program. Dr. Dal-Bianco's work has been recognized by a Career Development Award from the American Society of Echocardiography, by his selection for Young Investigator Award presentations of the American Heart Association and American Society of Echocardiography and by the Stanford Calderwood Prize for postdoctoral fellow research from the Mass General Hospital.

Dr. Dal-Bianco's main clinical focus is on the evaluation, management and treatment of patients with heart valve disease, with a special interest and expertise in mitral valve disease.  

As a member of the MGH Heart Valve Program, Dr. Dal-Bianco works closely with his colleagues in the MGH Cardiac Catheterization laboratory and Cardiac Surgery. He is an expert in advanced cardiac ultrasound techniques to guide the transcatheter, minimally invasive repair or replacement of diseased heart valves (Mitral valve clip / MitraClip; TAVI / TAVR).