Meghana Helder is a Mayo clinic trained practicing cardiovascular surgeon interested in aortic surgery and Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy.  She has also started Octin Health, which is developing a surgery enabling tool to de-risk aortic arch operations.  She is a feature editor of Seminar in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and on the Editorial Board of Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.