Director, Global Medical Education & Training - Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Interventions (TMTI)
Posted Sep 9, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about an education program you built that measurably improved outcomes or safety, not just attendance.
What they are checking: Whether they measure training by its effect on safe and effective use rather than by headcount.
Tell me about a time you worked with key physician faculty who had strong opinions about how training should be done.
What they are checking: Whether they can lead expert physicians as partners while still keeping programs consistent and on strategy.
Tell me about leading a team spread across countries. How did you keep them aligned and supported?
What they are checking: Whether they can manage a global team with different time zones and needs as a single point of contact.
What would you do
Regions want very different training. Europe wants one thing, the US another. How do you build a global strategy without forcing one size on everyone?
What they are checking: Whether they can set a global standard while leaving room for regional regulations and practice patterns.
Marketing wants a training event timed to a launch and Legal has concerns about the content. How do you resolve it?
What they are checking: Whether they can bring Marketing, Legal, Medical Affairs and Regulatory to agreement without cutting corners.
A site has a string of complications with one of our therapies. What role should education play in the response?
What they are checking: Whether they see training as part of patient safety and can respond quickly alongside Clinical and Quality.
About the work
How would you design a training pathway that takes a new interventional cardiologist from interest to independent TMTI cases?
What they are checking: Whether they understand staged physician training, from didactic to simulation to proctored cases, for complex structural heart therapies.
How do you keep a medical education program compliant when it also needs to support adoption of our TMTI portfolio?
What they are checking: Whether they know the line between education and promotion, which is the biggest risk in this role.
How would you train the Structural Heart Field Team differently from the physicians they support?
What they are checking: Whether they understand that field staff need case support skills and judgment, not just product knowledge.
How do you decide what belongs in simulation, what belongs in a live case and what can be done online?
What they are checking: Whether they match training methods to the skill being taught instead of defaulting to one format.
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