Medicine Grand Rounds: Global Aging in the 21st Century: Impact on CV Disease Burden and Treatment

When:
March 14, 2018 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
2018-03-14T08:00:00-07:00
2018-03-14T09:00:00-07:00
Where:
LKSC, Berg Hall
Li Ka Shing Building
291 Campus Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94305
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Jody Joseph
Medicine Grand Rounds: Global Aging in the 21st Century: Impact on CV Disease Burden and Treatment @ LKSC, Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenter: Ian Meredith, MD, PhD, AM
Global Chief Medical Officer, Executive Vice President
Boston Scientific Corporation

Ian Meredith, M.D., Ph.D., AM, has been the Global Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Boston Scientific Corporation since January 2017. Meredith serves as Medical Venture Partner and Advisor at BioStar Ventures LLC. He is the Director of MonashHeart, Monash Health and Professor of Medicine and Cardiology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He also is Executive Director of the Monash Cardiovascular Research Centre, Monash Health. He worked at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, where he trained in interventional cardiology. He has performed more than 10,000 invasive cardiac and coronary procedures and has been chief investigator or principal investigator for over 30 major international multicenter, randomized trials. His clinical experience includes percutaneous coronary interventions, rotablation, intravascular ultrasound imaging and also structural heart disease which includes PFO and ASD closures and percutaneous aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Meredith has more than 25 years of experience as a clinical and interventional cardiologist. He published more than 300 manuscripts Professor Meredith’s work has focused on the development and clinical evaluation of devices for the treatment of coronary artery and structural heart disease and he has been at the forefront of emerging percutaneous cardiac valve therapies. He was also the global principal investigator for the Boston Scientific Lotusâ„¢ Valve REPRISE research program. Meredith trained in Melbourne and completed his Ph.D at the Baker Institute.