Dr. Janarthanan (Janar) Sathananthan is an interventional cardiologist at St. Paul's and Vancouver General Hospital. Janar graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) from the University of Auckland (Distinction) and completed cardiology training through the Greenlane Cardiology Program in Auckland, New Zealand, and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. During his cardiology training, he also completed a Master of Public Health (MPH) focusing on research methodology. He completed four years of subspecialty training in interventional cardiology which included 1 year at Greenlane Cardiology (Auckland, New Zealand), 1 year at Toronto General Hospital (Toronto) focusing on complex coronary intervention, and a further two years at the Centre for Heart Valve Innovation (Vancouver) focusing on structural heart interventions. His clinical interests include both coronary and structural intervention. He is active in both pre-clinical and clinical research with a focus on structural heart disease. Pre-clinical interests focus on bench testing of cardiovascular devices, and he is the Director of the Centre for Heart Valve Innovation Bench Testing Laboratory. He is a Canadian representative for the International Standards Organization (ISO), an advisory body for the testing of cardiovascular devices. In 2022 he was recognized as a top 3 finalist for the TCT Thomas J. Linnemeier Young Investigator Award.