Cardiovascular Innovation Fellowship

Caroline joins Edwards Lifesciences from the Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery residency program at Yale. Her interest in cardiovascular innovation originated from a role as a clinical research coordinator for the Edwards PARTNER I and II clinical trials at University of Pennsylvania. Her focus on innovation led her to pursue Design and Innovation scholarly Inquiry track as a medical student at Jefferson Medical College before starting in her current training program. She has extensive experience conducting outcomes-based research studies to describe early outcomes of new surgical techniques and in the publication of technical papers and videos to facilitate early adoption in the community.

Ian joins Edwards Lifesciences after completing his cardiothoracic surgery training at St. Thomas Hospital in London. He was born and raised in Sierra Leone and moved to London to complete his educational journey, first with his undergraduate studies at Trinity College, Oxford. This was followed by a Doctorate of Medicine also at Oxford University which encompassed a research collaboration on large animal tissue engineering at University Hospital Zurich. His preclinical research focused on ‘functional growth’ in pulmonary artery bioresorbable vascular conduits targeting congenital cardiac surgery applications. More recently, Ian has published and presented at the AATS on a new surgical MV repair technique. Ian would like to bring innovation to underserved parts of the world.