Dr. Fred St Goar has been practicing cardiology at El Camino Health in Mt View for 30 years. He has a passion for optimizing care, and takes a sincere interest in the long-term health and wellness of his patients. Early in his career he was involved in the development of the interventional cardiology approach for the management of heart attacks. He is also a leader in structural heart valve repairs and pioneered the catheter-based approach to mitral regurgitation (MR). In 1999, he founded the company Evalve which developed the MitraClip, the sole FDA approved percutaneous therapy of MR.  Dr. St Goar serves as the Medical Director of El Camino Hospital’s Norma Melchor Heart and Vascular Institute and is also the vice chairman of the board of the non profit med tech incubator, Fogarty Innovation. More recently Dr St Goar has developed an interest in innovating therapeutics for the developing world. He thus teaches at, and serves as an advisor to, the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. He also advises the Village Health Works endeavor in Burundi. Dr St Goar went to medical school at Harvard where he serves on the Dean’s Global Health Advisory Council, and he completed his internal medicine and cardiology training at Stanford. He is married to Dr Anne Friedlander, who is a Human Biology Professor at Stanford, and has three grown children.