Maria T. Vivaldi, MD, FACC is a clinical cardiologist and staff physician at the Corrigan Women's Heart Health Program and the Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital's Corrigan Minehan Heart Center in Boston. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Medical School. Dr Vivaldi completed her fellowship in clinical cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, followed by a fellowship in echocardiography at Mass General. Dr. Vivaldi is currently the Director of Education of the Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program. She has been recognized for her teaching and has received the Harvard Danforth Award for Excellence in Teaching. She also received the Pierre Moussa Fellow Award for her interest in cardiovascular research. She is a Councilor of the Massachusetts Chapter, American College of Cardiology and serves as co-chair of Women in Cardiology, Massachusetts Chapter, ACC.

Her current research endeavors span a wide spectrum of cardiac prevention and include serving as co-investigator for the ORION 9/10 Project which focuses on a novel PCSK9i research examining the effects of Lipoprotein A on ASCVD, Hypertension during pregnancy and the postpartum period, and utilization of an mHealth platform to manage a post PCI population.

Beyond her clinical practice, Dr. Vivaldi has championed and advocated for improved awareness and education of women concerning heart disease and cardiovascular risk factors through her involvement in the American Heart Association's Circle of Red. In her capacity as Chair of the Circle of Red, she has worked diligently to support their mission of preventing and reducing the prevalence of heart disease in women. Dr. Vivaldi is trilingual and has a special interest in cardiac disease in Latino women and has been a faculty member of the Massachusetts Medical Society's lecture series, Ethnic Differences in Cardiovascular Disease. Her clinical interests include Women's Heart Disease, Cardiac Ultrasound and Preventive Cardiology and she maintains a robust practice at 3 distinct MGH clinical sites- the Cardiovascular Medicine Clinic, the Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Center as well as the Revere Health Center.