Professor Saibal Kar, MD, FACC, FSCAI is a board-certified interventional cardiologist and serves as the Director of Structural Heart Disease Interventions and Clinical Research at Los Robles Health System. An astute clinician and teacher with a special expertise in interventions for structural heart disease, he is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. In his present position he directs important clinical trials involving structural heart disease interventions in the hospital, and at a national level. Dr. Kar focuses his research on coronary restenosis, device development, and the advancement of percutaneous techniques in the treatment of structural heart disease. He is recognized internationally for his research and clinical experience in transcatheter mitral valve repair, as well as transcatheter treatment options for prevention of cardioembolic stroke. In the preclinical lab, he has helped develop novel drug-eluting stents that are currently being used in clinical practice.

Dr. Kar's work has been published in more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and textbooks. He has delivered more than 200 lectures in national and international conferences all around the globe. He serves as a reviewer for a number of preeminent cardiology journals and is on the editorial board of several journals as well. He is a fellow and active member of the American College of Cardiology, Society of Coronary Angiography and Intervention, and the Cardiac Society of India.

Dr. Kar is gifted operator and teacher and mentor for several cardiologists all around the World. He has taught physicians all around the World to perform transcatheter mitral valve repair, left atrial appendage occlusion and several other structural heart disease procedures.

Dr. Kar earned his medical degree from Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College in Kolkata, India. Following his internship, he completed his residency in medicine and his fellowship in cardiology at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India. He was also an interventional cardiology fellow at the Epworth Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. In the United States, Dr. Kar repeated his residency in medicine at the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Hospital and completed his cardiology and interventional cardiology fellowship at Cedars-Sinai.