Robert Lederman

Dr Lederman is the chief of the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Intervention at the NHLBI Division of Intramural Research in Bethesda Maryland USA. His program creates new catheter treatments & devices for structural heart disease and introduces them into medical practice. His multidisciplinary team includes cardiologists, imaging physicists, and biomedical engineers. The NHLBI Lederman lab has created and translated into clinical practice several novel procedures including transcaval access to the aorta; mitral cerclage ventriculoplasty; LAMPOON, ELASTIC, and BASILICA leaflet modification to allow TMVR and TAVR; myocardial intramural navigation procedures including MIRTH ventriculoplasty, SESAME myotomy, and VINTAGE ablation; and MRI heart catheterization. These procedures and protocols are possible though a network of luminary collaborating structural heart interventional cardiologists.