CHiP Network Congenital Heart and Pediatric Cardiac Journal Watch - January 2019
Pediatric Cardiology ACHD Featured Articles in association with ISACHD CHD Electrophysiology CHD Interventions CHD Surgery Fetal Cardiology Congenital Cardiovascular Anesthesia
The CHIP Network Journal Watch Team
Wendy Whiteside, MD Wendy is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Director of Interventional Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Michigan Congenital Heart Center, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. She obtained her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2006 then completed pediatric residency at Children's Hospital Oakland in Oakland, CA in 2009. She received both her categorical and interventional pediatric cardiology training
at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. Her clinical and research interests include single ventricle physiology, transcatheter pulmonary valves, and quality improvement within the cardiac catheterization laboratory.
Dr. Gary Webb is an Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and, from 2009-2016, the Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Heart Institute. A graduate of McGill University in Montréal, he interned at the Royal Victoria Hospital, and then trained in internal medicine and cardiology at the University of Toronto. From 1980-2004, he was codirector and then director of the Toronto Congenital Cardiac Center for Adults at Toronto General Hospital. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in both internal medicine and cardiology. From 2004-2009, he was director of the Philadelphia Adult Congenital Heart Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2016, he has been a consultant to Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and has been responsible for the ACHD Learning Center, the Cardiology Fellow Testing Center, and the Congenital Heart Professionals International (CHIP) Network. Since 2017, he has resumed seeing patients on a part-time basis at the Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults.
Dr. Ryan Romans is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and an Interventional Pediatric Cardiologist at Children’s Mercy Hospital. He received his medical degree from the Creighton University School of Medicine in 2011. Following medical school, he completed pediatrics residency at the Boston Combined Residency Program (Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center). He completed his pediatric cardiology and interventional pediatric cardiology training at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. His clinical and research interests include transcatheter pulmonary valves, patients with single ventricle physiology, and outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization.
Dr. Timothy Pirolli is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He specializes in pediatric and adult congenital cardiac surgery. His hospital affiliations include Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, Parkland Memorial Hospital, and Clements University Hospital (UTSW).
Dr. Mehul Patel MD, is a structural and adult congenital heart disease specialist and an interventional cardiologist. Dr. Patel earned his undergraduate and medical education from the Mumbai University, India. After completing his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, he further trained in interventional cardiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, NYC, NY and Adult Congenital Heart Disease at the Texas Children's Hospital, Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of
Medicine, Houston, TX. Dr. Patel worked as Chief of adult congenital heart disease, Assistant Professor at the Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI where he not only expanded the program, performing complex interventions and device implantations but also established the percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation (Melody Valve) Program. Due to his passion for treating structurally abnormal hearts, he did a dedicated year of Structural Heart Disease fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI where he worked with pioneers in this field before moving to North Carolina. He is proficient in performing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), MitraClip, Watchman device implantation, percutaneous Mitral, Tricuspid and Pulmonary valve replacements along with a variety of interventions on congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension. Dr. Patel is ABIM board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Interventional cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Dr. Patel has more than 50 peer reviewed publications and numerous abstracts to his credit. He serves as a Co- Editor-in-Chief for the CHiP Network journal watch. His wife, Khyati is a pediatric cardiac Electrophysiologist and they have a 9-year-old daughter. Dr. Patel is also an artist, likes music, yoga and plays badminton. His clinical areas of expertise and interests are: 1) Transcatheter therapies for Structural and Adult Congenital heart disease. 2) Complex device implantations.
Michael Ma, MD is an Assistant Professor in Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at Stanford University. He specializes in pediatric and adult congenital cardiac surgery, with an emphasis on neonates, complex biventricular repair, and pulmonary artery reconstruction. His research lab investigates ex and in vivo translational models for complex congenital heart disease, to optimize future surgical and endovascular repair
strategies.
Dr. Jeremy L. Herrmann is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Indiana University. He specializes in pediatric and adult congenital cardiac surgery, and his clinical interests also include heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. His hospital affiliations include Indiana University Health Riley Hospital for Children and Methodist Hospital as well as Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis
Dr. Leong Ming Chern "MC" is an adult congenital heart disease specialist at the National Heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He received his medical training at the University of Malaya and pediatric cardiology training at the National Heart Institute. His area of interest includes treatment of adult patients with congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension in congenital heart disease.
Dr. Philip Chang is Director of the Pediatric and Congenital Heart Electrophysiology Program at the University of Florida Congenital Heart Center and Shands Children’s Hospital in Gainesville, Florida. Prior to joining the faculty at UF/Shands in 2017, Dr. Chang was on faculty at University of Southern California and the Keck School of Medicine where he served as Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Care Program and practiced both pediatric and adult electrophysiology. Dr. Chang’s current clinical and research interests include complex ablation of arrhythmias in adult patients with congenital heart disease,
novel techniques and technologies in cardiac implantable devices, cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with congenital heart disease, complex lead extraction, and strategies for risk stratification of sudden death in patients with congenital heart disease. Dr. Chang is a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society and the American College of Cardiology and board certified in pediatric cardiology (ABP) and adult congenital heart disease (ABIM).
Dr Blanche Cupido is a consultant adult cardiologist working at Groote Schuur Hospital, UCT Private Academic Hospital and the University of Cape Town(UCT), South Africa. She completed her physician training in 2009 and her cardiology subspecialist training in 2013. She recently returned to SA after doing a Fellowship in Adult Congenital Heart Disease in Leeds, United Kingdom under the guidance of Dr Kate English. She has established a dedicated unit for Grown Up Congenital Heart Disease in Cape Town, South Africa. Her aim is to grow ACHD services in Sub- Saharan Africa and embark on GUCH research on the African continent.
Dr. Damien Cullington, MBChB MRCP MD FESC is a consultant adult congenital cardiologist who works at Leeds General Infirmary, UK. In summer 2019, he will move over to the newly commissioned North West ACHD Service based in Liverpool, UK. Damien qualified in 2002 from the University of Liverpool and became a substantive consultant in 2016. Prior to this, he worked throughout the North of England and Yorkshire as a cardiology trainee. Damien was awarded a doctorate in medicine (MD) from the University of Hull in 2013 for his work in heart
rate in patients with heart failure. He is a member of the Royal College of Physicians (London), Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and honorary senior lecturer for the University of Leeds. His ACHD subspecialty clinical interests are heart failure, imaging and palliative care. He is regional organiser for ACHD training at Leeds and clinical governance lead for the Leeds congenital cardiac unit. His research interests and wide and far but particularly epidemiology, chronic heart failure in ACHD patients in all its guises, the systemic RV and the univentricle.
Dr. Ginnie Abarbanell, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and a pediatric cardiologist at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. She completed medical school at the University of Washington and pediatric residency at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, CA. She finished her pediatric cardiology fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. Prior to joining the faculty at Washington University in 2017, Dr. Abarbanell was a pediatric cardiologist in private practice in Indianapolis, IN and was then faculty with Sibley Cardiology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Abarbanell also works closely with Center of Disease (CDC) with the birth defects division regarding epidemiology of congenital heart disease and long term outcomes of children with congenital heart disease. Her clinical interests are echocardiography, fetal echocardiography and neurodevelopment within the context of congenital heart disease.
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