Consultant Interventional Cardiology
Karolinska, Stockholm, Sweden
Dr Freeman has been a consultant in structural intervention at Karolinska Hospital, Sweden since Sept. 2025, specialising in TAVI, Mitral (TMVR, MTEER), Tricuspid (TTVR, TTEER), electrosurgery (LAMPOON, BASILICA, UNICORN) and SESAME percutaneous myotomy.
From 2017, Dr Freeman led the structural program at Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark, evolving the service from a basic low volume TAVI centre to the leading electrosurgical centre in Europe.
Aalborg was the first centre in Scandinavia to perform LAMPOON ViMAC and ViR procedures, with Dr Freeman performing the region’s first case, and is the first centre internationally outside the USA to develop SESAME percutaneous myotomy. These therapies are now established into a mature service with a heavy focus on selection and good results. But with a different home now, Karolinska, Stockholm
Dr Freeman is a core member of the international electrosurgery group and an active proctor for TAVI, complex electrosurgery, and paravalvular leak closure.
Active research includes a soon to be started RCT based in Karolinska: SESAME vs ASA in HCM patients, SEV vs BEV RCT in Bicuspid anatomy.
