International Speakers

Dr. Jacqueline Saw is an Interventional Cardiologist at Vancouver General Hospital and St Paul’s Hospital, Clinical Professor of Medicine at UBC, and Program Director of the UBC AFC Adult Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program and the VGH Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program. She served as the Head of VGH Cardiology Clinical Trials Research. She was awarded Canada Scholar and the Dean’s Entrance Scholarship for Natural Sciences at Simon Fraser University for her undergraduate degree. She obtained her medical doctorate at the University of Ottawa, graduating summa cum laude. She completed her Internal Medicine and Cardiology residencies at the University of British Columbia, and served as chief cardiology fellow. She then completed her Interventional Cardiology fellowship training at Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Dr. Saw is an international key opinion leader in spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD). She is the PI of the Canadian SCAD Study, Canadian SCAD Genetic Study, CanSCAD3000 Study, PRYME, NACAD, and SAFER-SCAD studies. She is a Michael Smith Foundation Health Research Professional Investigator for SCAD research. She is also a key opinion leader in left atrial appendage (LAA) closure, and is principal investigator of several LAA closure studies (ASAP-TOO, Canadian Watchman Registry, Canadian ACP/Amulet Registry). She is an active physician proctor for LAAC with WATCHMAN and ACP/Amulet devices.

She is the Chair for the SCAI Expert Consensus Statement on Transcatheter LAA Closure, Chair of Clinical Events Committee of the Amulet Post-Marketing Registry, and Co-Chair of the American Heart Association SCAD Scientific Statement Writing Committee. She is a writing group member of the EHRA EAPCI Expert Consensus Statement on Catheter-based LAA Occlusion, the SCAI Position Statement on Best Practices for Clinical Proctoring, and the SCAI Expert Consensus Statement on Sex-Specific Considerations in Myocardial Revascularization. She is a steering committee member of the NCDR LAAO Registry. She is also on the Program Development Committee of TCT, TVT, ACC and SCAI. She was an associate editor of JACC Cardiovascular Intervention.

She has authored over 290 peer-reviewed publications, including scientific research manuscripts, review papers, and book chapters, and is the primary editor of three textbooks on LAAC and carotid artery stenting. She has given over 800 scientific talks internationally.

Paul Mahoney, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Professor of Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University

Section Chief, Interventional Cardiology, ECU Health

Director, Structural Heart, ECU Health

Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, ECU Health

Associate Director, Interventional Fellowship Programs

Greenville, North Carolina

Dr. Mahoney is an experienced structural interventionalist who has performed over 4000 TAVR and 1000 mitral TEER procedures, as well as hundreds of TMVR and TTVR investigational devices. He is active in dozens of clinical trials and serves on multiple national steering and screening committees. He serves as Co-Chair of the Structural Heart Committee for SCAI, and has authored dozens of papers and book chapters. He has proctored internationally for multiple transcatheter procedures and techniques. He has a special interest in electrosurgery based procedures and best practices.