Alright guys, so welcome. This is the SCAI CHD Research Forum. So this is a webinar series that we essentially started last year, going on the concept of creating an open forum on various aspects of research in congenital cardiac catheterization. It's been really fun putting these together. Last year, we had one on the topic of multi-center research and performing effective prospective and retrospective multi-center research in our field, which is obviously something that we need very much. The other topic that we've come up with this time is device development. We're really excited about this and have a great panel of speakers and moderators, and it sounds like a great lineup of attendees. What we're really hoping for is an open discussion, not just amongst the panelists, but also anyone who's on the call. So anyone who wants to just chime in with questions and comments or tips that they've learned along the way, that'd be great for us to learn from as well, but we'll dive right in here. So just for quick introductions, these are people that you guys all know very well if you're on this call, you're either an interventional cardiologist or you don't know these people. So our first speaker is going to be Evan Zahn. So everyone knows Evan. He is director of the Congenital Heart Program at Cedars-Sinai. He's had various levels of involvement in many different devices that have come to market and been very successful in doing the things that we need to do in the cath lab as a community. He's had tremendously important roles in the successes of things like the Amplaster Piccolo occluder, Altera pre-stent, the new Renata stent that's out in the clinical trial right now. We're really lucky to have him. We're going to have a lot of overlap in the talks today and sort of the journeys that people have taken. And we're going to sort of do this without any slides on purpose because we want it to be open, but everyone has a sort of theme to go by. And I'm just going to talk a bit about developing industry relationships and his journey through that. Dr. Henry Bicino is our next speaker as well. He's an interventional cardiologist and director of cardiovascular innovation at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego. He's taken on really interesting, funded and successful developments in a new generation of transcatheter pulmonary valves and has worked and started a company along with some of his colleagues when he was at Texas Children's and has won several medical device innovation awards, including the ACC Innovation Challenge a couple of years ago. So we're happy to have him and he's going to talk a bit around his experience with device creation, the conception of those devices, and then the research and development portions of those things. And then Matt Gillespie. So Matt practically begged me to be on this panel and I was happy to help him advance his career. Thank you again. You're welcome. No problem. So Matt, we all know. He's director of the Catholic Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, one of the main drivers obviously of the Harmony valve development and really the international rollout of this over the last few years. And he's also co-founder of Onocor, which is a company that's been out that many people already know about, which has developed a new transcatheter retrieval system, which we're all really excited to use.

SCAI CHD Research Forum

congenital cardiac catheterization

device development

Evan Zahn

transcatheter pulmonary valves