Technological Iteration in TAVI: A Live Case Session

Professor Lars Søndergaard is a consultant cardiologist at Rigshospitalet – Copenhagen, Denmark. Professor of Cardiology at University of Copenhagen, he published over 300 peer reviewed articles, and more than 15 textbook chapters. His research interests are focused on adults with congenital heart diseases and catheter-based heart valve interventions, as well as congenital and structural heart diseases. He led the first-in-human transcatheter mitral valve implantation (CardiAQ) in 2012 and he actively participated to several trials, including NOTION (transcatheter vs. surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with aortic stenosis and low surgical risk), and the REDUCE randomised trial (PFO vs anti-platelet therapy after cryptogenic stroke).

Interventional Cardiologist, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires (ICBA)
His areas of interest have centered around Coronary, complex angioplasty, chronic total occlusion angioplasty and structural heart disease interventions.

Interventional Cardiologist Kerckhoff Heart Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany
Dr Won-Keun Kim is Director of Structural Heart Disease / TAVI at the Kerckhoff Heart Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany. Between 2012-2016 Dr Kim served as Interdisciplinary Consultant, Cardiology / Cardiac Surgery, and Associate Director of the Interventional Cardiology Training Program also at the Kerckhoff Heart Center, where he previously worked as a specialist in cardiology, interventional cardiology and cardiovascular imaging.