Bio:

Jaydev P. Desai, Ph.D.

Director – Georgia Center for Medical Robotics (GCMR) Associate Director - Medical Robotics and Human Augmentation, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Jaydev P. Desai is currently a Professor at Georgia Tech in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and holds the G.P. “Bud” Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Faculty Professorship in Pediatric Research. He is the founding Director of the Georgia Center for Medical Robotics (GCMR) and an Associate Director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM).

Abstract:

CHALLENGES IN ROBOTIC TRANSCATHETER AND ENDOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS

Mitral regurgitation is a common heart valve disease. Current approaches for mitral valve repair include open heart surgery (which carries the risk of post-operative complications) and transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR). TMVR is a relatively new approach that is performed on a beating heart using a catheter that is guided to the target location to implant the device to reduce or eliminate mitral regurgitation.