Nicholas M. Orme, MD

Nicholas Orme, MD, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained cardiologist with Saint Luke's Cardiovascular Consultants and is on staff at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute. He specializes in advanced cardiac imaging, including cardiac MRI and echocardiography. Dr. Orme is the director of cardiac MRI and the associate director of the echocardiography laboratory at the Heart Institute. Dr. Orme has active research interests in incidental findings in cardiac imaging and work-related health impacts upon cardiovascular specialists.
When caring for patients, Dr. Orme’s priority is to provide compassionate care by listening and working together to build a plan for making the correct diagnosis and treatment. He has expertise in cardiac imaging, valve disease, coronary artery disease, and heart failure.
Dr. Orme obtained his medical school, internal medicine, and cardiology training at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His undergraduate work was completed at Brigham Young University where he majored in microbiology with a minor in Portuguese. While enrolled as an undergraduate, Dr. Orme served a two-year volunteer mission in Lisbon, Portugal, and several Portuguese speaking islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
Dr. Orme has been married more than 20 years and is the proud father of five children. He enjoys playing basketball, watching college football, attending his children’s activities, and spending time with his family.

1. Siddiki H, Fletcher JG, McFarland B, Dajani N, Orme N, Koenig B, Strobel M, Wolf SM. Incidental findings in CT colonography: Literature review and survey of current research practice. J Law Med Ethics 2008; 36(2):320-31.
2. Orme NM, Miller DV, Edwards WD. Age-related changes among 25 patients with congenital cardiac left-to- right shunts and irreversible plexogenic pulmonary arteriopathy. Cardiovasc Pathol 2008; 17(6):382-391.
3. Vasile VC, Babuin L, Ting HH, Orme NM, Yuan BJ, Rio Perez JA, Alegria, JR, Bellolio F, Haro LH, Jaffe AS. Aborted myocardial infarction: Is it real in the troponin era? Am Heart J 2009.
4. Orme NM, Fletcher JG, Siddiki HA, Harmsen WS, O'Byrne MM, Port JD, Tremaine WJ, Pitot HC, McFarland EJ, Robinson ME, Koenig BA, King BF, Wolf SM. Incidental findings in imaging research: Evaluating incidence, benefit, and burden. Arch Intern Med 2010.
5. Orme NM, Hart PA, Mauck KF. 46-year-old with treatment resistant hypertension. Mayo Clin Proc. 2010.
6. Orme NM, Sheldon SH, Klarich KW. 33-year-old man with syncope. Mayo Clin Proc. 2011.
7. Orme NM, Sorajja P, Dearani JA, Schaff HV, Gersh BJ, Ommen SR. Comparison of surgical septal myectomy to medical therapy alone in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and syncope. Am J Cardiol. 2013; 111(3):388-92
8.  Pallanch JF, Yu L, Delone D, Robb R, Holmes DR, Edwards P, Camp J, McCollough CH, Ponikau J, Dearking AC, Lane J, Primak J, Shinkle A, Hagan J, Frigas E, Ocel JJ, Tombers N, Siwani R, Orme NM, Reed KB, Jerath N, Dhillon R Kita H. Three-dimensional volumetric computed tomographic scoring as an objective outcome measure for chronic rhinosinusitis: Clinical correlations and comparison to Lund-Mackay scoring. International Forum of Allergy and Rhiology. 2013; 3(12): 963-72. 
9. Ahmed KA, Laack NN, Eckel LJ, Orme NM, Wetjen NM. Histologically proven, low-grade brainstem gliomas in children: 30-year experience with long-term follow-up at Mayo Clinic. Am J Clin Oncol. 2014; 37(1):51-6. 
10. Orme NM, Wright TC, Harmon GE, Nkomo VT, Williamson EE, Sorajja P, Foley TA, Greason KL, Suri RM, Rihal CS, Young PM. Imaging Pandora’s Box: Incidental findings in elderly patients evaluated for transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2014; 89 (6): 747-753. 
11. Orme NM, Rihal CS, Gulati R, Holmes DR, Lennon RJ, Lewis BR, McPhail IR, Thielen KR, Pislaru SV, Sandhu GS, Sing M. Occupational health hazards of working in the interventional laboratory: A multi-site case control study of physicians and allied staff. JACC 2015; 65 (8): 820-860. 
12. Orme NM, Geske JB, Pislaru SV, Askew JW, Lennon RJ, Lewis BR, Rihal CS, Pellikka PA, Singh M. Occupational musculoskeletal pain in cardiac sonographers compared to peer employees: a multisite cross-sectional study. Echocardiography 2016; 33 (11):1642-1647.
13. Barros-Gomes,MD, Orme NM, Nhola LF, Scott C, Helfinstine K, Singh M, Pellikka PA. Characteristics and Consequences of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Pain Among Cardiac Sonographers Compared to Peer Employees: A Multisite Cross-Sectional Study. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2019; 32 (9): 1138-1146.
14. Geske JB, Nordhues BD, Orme NM, Tajik AJ, Spittell PC, Ommen SR. Prevalence and Clinical Correlates of Aortic Dilation in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2021; 34 (3):279-285. 
15. Complete resolution of technetium pyrophosphate uptake after treatment of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2023 Jun; 16 (6):e014954.