Dr. Mani Vannan earned his medical degree at Madras Medical College in Madras, India and completed his residency at Trafford General Hospital in Manchester, England and his cardiology fellowship at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Vannan is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the American Society of Echocardiography as well as a member of the Royal College of Physicians in the UK. He is a frequent presenter at national and international meetings and leads Piedmont Heart's annual 3-D Echo 360, iMAGINE and Napa Cardiology conferences, among others. He serves on the editorial boards of major cardiovascular journals and has over 200 publications. His research interests include 3-D imaging.