Lauren Ranard

Lauren Ranard is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and an attending physician at the Columbia Structural Heart and Valve Center and Columbia Interventional Cardiovascular Care. She completed her medical degree at Thomas Jefferson University, residency at Duke University Medical Center, and fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Her research focuses on transcatheter interventions for structural heart disease, including aortic regurgitation, mitral and tricuspid valve therapies, and cardiac imaging-based procedural planning. She recently led the pivotal ALIGN-AR trial of the Trilogy valve for native aortic regurgitation, published in *The Lancet*, and investigates advanced computer simulation and self-amplifying RNA therapeutics for myocardial infarction. She is a faculty member at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation.