Dr Nadira Hamid is a non-invasive cardiologist specialising in advanced echocardiography and structural heart disease. She is Director of the Echocardiography Core Laboratory at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she supports structural heart and valvular disease programmes through multimodality cardiac imaging.

Her clinical practice focuses on echocardiography-guided assessment and imaging support for transcatheter structural heart interventions, including aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valve procedures.

Current Roles and Responsibilities

Since January 2024, Dr Hamid has served as Director of the Echocardiography Core Laboratory at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. In this role, she oversees echocardiography imaging protocols, quality assurance, and clinical imaging support for structural heart disease and valvular heart disease programmes.

She works within a multidisciplinary heart team, integrating…

Dr Rahul P Sharma is Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and an Interventional Cardiologist at Stanford Health Care, where he serves as Director of Structural Interventions and Associate Director of the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory.

With over a decade of experience in complex coronary and structural heart interventions, he has combined clinical leadership with academic medicine, progressing from Cedars-Sinai to Stanford, where he has held faculty positions since 2019.

Rahul is also Co-Founder of Synchron, a pioneering neurotechnology company developing minimally invasive brain–computer interfaces that restore communication and independence for people with paralysis. His work sits at the intersection of cardiovascular innovation, translational research, and transformative medical technologies.