Dr. James (Jamie) McCabe received his medical degree from Yale University and completed 10 years of post‑medical school training at the University of California, San Francisco, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He joined Beth Israel Lahey Medical Center in 2025 as section chief for structural heart therapies after 12 years at the University of Washington, where he served as the David and Nancy Auth Endowed Chair in Cardiac Innovation and section head for interventional cardiology across the health system.
His clinical practice focuses on structural heart interventions, including catheter-based repair or replacement of all heart valves. His research centers on novel transcatheter therapies to address unmet needs in structural heart disease, and he has served as site principal investigator for dozens of clinical trials. Dr. McCabe has authored more than 200 original manuscripts and multiple book chapters and is a frequent lecturer at national and international meetings such as Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics, Transcatheter Valve Therapies, the American College of Cardiology and the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Intervention. He is widely recognized as a leading clinician educator and investigator in transcatheter therapies for valvular heart disease.