Wissam A Jaber

Wissam Jaber is an interventional cardiologist and professor of medicine at Emory University in Atlanta. He is the medical director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Emory University Hospital, the program director for the interventional cardiology fellowship, and the system lead of coronary intervention service line. He is a graduate of the American University of Beirut Medical School and trained in internal medicine at Duke University and in cardiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He has been in practice since 2008. Dr Jaber has led the complex coronary and chronic total occlusion intervention program at Emory for several years and has participated as a live operator in many live case programs including TCT, SCAI and the CTO summit. He has helped found and now directs the pulmonary embolism response team at Emory since 2012, and currently leads a high-volume referral center for pulmonary embolism intervention including balloon pulmonary angioplasty for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. He has participated in several trials and research projects in the pulmonary embolism in addition to the coronary intervention fields, including being global PI on 3 trials, and has authored/coauthored more than 150 manuscripts.