CHiP Network Congenital Heart and Pediatric Cardiac Journal Watch - March 2018 |
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ACHD Reviews of January 2018 Manuscripts Sponsored by the ISACHD
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The CHIP Network Journal Watch Team |
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Dr. Shelby White, MD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at University of Arizona College of Medicine and a pediatric cardiologist at Banner University Medical Center- Tucson. She completed medical school at the University of Mississippi and pediatrics residency and chief residency at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. She finished her pediatric cardiology fellowship at the University of Virginia as well. She joined the faculty at University of Arizona in 2017 and her clinical interests include echocardiography, fetal echocardiography, and the care of interstage single ventricle patients. |
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Dr. Gary Webb is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at the University of Cincinnati School Of Medicine and a consultant to the Cincinnati Adult Congenital Heart Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Dr. Webb was born in Montreal, and graduated from McGill University Medical School. He was the director of the Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults from 1986-2004. He was president of the Canadian Adult Congenital Heart Network from 1991-2005. He was the founding president of the International Society for Adult Congenital Cardiac Disease. He moved to the United States in 2004. He was at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia from 2004-2009. He is married, and has four children. |
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Mike Seckeler Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) Director, Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Banner Unuiversity Medical Center - Tucson University of Arizona. |
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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, Clements University Hospital (UTSW) and Dell Children’s Hospital in Austin. |
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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. |
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W. Aaron Kay, MD is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and is also board certified in Adult Cardiovascular Disease as well as Pediatric Cardiology. He is board eligible in Adult Congenital Heart Disease. His clinical interests include comprehensive care of the adult patient with congenital heart disease, managing patients with complex acquired or congenital heart disease during pregnancy, echocardiography and cardiac MRI. He obtained his medical degree from Indiana Univeristy and completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital. He then completed a dual fellowship in both Adult Cardiovascular Medicine and Pediatric Cardiology at The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He joined the faculty of Indiana University as Program Director of Adult Congenital Heart Disease in 2013. |
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Maan Jokhadar is a cardiologist and associate professor of medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, advanced heart failure/transplantation, adult congenital heart disease, and echocardiography. He is fellowship director for the Emory Adult Congenital Heart Disease training program and Core Curriculum Director for the Emory general cardiology fellowship program. Dr Jokhadar graduated from the University Damascus School of Medicine in Syria and then went to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for internal medicine residency. He then completed cardiology and subspecialty training at Emory University, where he currently on faculty. Dr. Jokhadar has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards. He is married with 3 children. |
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Jared Hershenson is a pediatric cardiologist in the greater Washington DC area, Maryland and northern Virginia since 2011 when he joined Child Cardiology Associates/Mednax Medical Group and INOVA Fairfax Children's Hospital in Fairfax, VA as an attending pediatric cardiologist. He is director of the exercise physiology lab and sports cardiology for the practice, but also has expertise in general pediatric cardiology and fetal cardiology. He obtained his medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis and completed his pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD and pediatric cardiology fellowship at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH. He lives in Silver Spring, MD with his wife and 5 children. He is actively involved and on the board of directors for many local organizations and is a guest writer for the health and wellness section of a local newspaper. He is a member of the ACC, AHA and ASE. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Philip Chang MD, FACC, FHRS is a pediatric and congenital electrophysiologist at Keck Medicine of University of Southern California (USC), providing EP and ACHD care to patients at Keck Medical Center, the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, and Children's Hospital Los Angeles. |
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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 with the aim of establishing a dedicated ACHD service at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. |
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Damien Cullington MBChB MRCP MD FESC is a consultant adult congenital cardiologist who works at Leeds General Infirmary, United Kingdom. He qualified in 2002 from the University of Liverpool and became a substantive consultant in 2016. Prior to this, he worked throughout the Yorkshire region as a cardiology trainee. He 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. Damien 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 and palliative care. He is a cardiology speciality question writer for the Royal College of Physicians MRCP part 1&2 exam, regional organiser for ACHD training at Leeds and clinical governance lead for the congenital cardiac unit. His research interests and wide and far but particularly chronic heart failure in ACHD patients in all its guises, the systemic RV and the univentricle. |
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Konstantin Averin, MD, MS is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta and an Interventional Pediatric Cardiologist at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta. He received his medical degree from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. After medical school, he completed pediatrics residency, pediatric cardiology fellowship and sub-specialty training in pediatric and adult interventional cardiology at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. His clinical and research interests are focused on the percutaneous treatment of pediatric patients with congenital and acquired heart disease with a focus on patients with single ventricle physiology, transcatheter pulmonary valves, and pulmonary hypertension. |
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About the Congenital Heart and Pediatric Cardiac Journal Watch |
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Congenital heart and pediatric cardiac Journal Watch was designed to make it easier for congenital heart and pediatric cardiac professionals to keep up with the literature in 6 subsections of congenital heart disease abstracts on a monthly basis: pediatric cardiology; congenital heart surgery; congenital heart interventions; congenital/pediatric electrophysiology; fetal cardiology; and adult congenital heart disease.
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On behalf of the CHiP Network, thank you for reading!
Sincerely,
Dr. Gary Webb, MD and Dr. Mehul Patel CHiP Network
The Chip Network, the Congenital Heart International Professionals Network, aims to develop a single global list of all congenital and pediatric cardiac professionals.
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