Experts discuss advancements in congenital heart care at Mott joint conference

More than 100 health care professionals who care for children with complex congenital heart disease addressed treatment and research topics at the weekend’s Joint Conference on Advances in Pediatric Cardiovascular Disease Management hosted by U-M’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital Congenital Heart Center.

Participants learned about innovative ideas and best practices related to caring for children with congenital heart disease. Speakers gave in-depth presentations on such topics as the arterial switch operation, a historical perspective on congenital heart disease, lymphatic abnormalities in patients with congenital heart disease, and public reporting

The Joint Conference was co-sponsored by The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and rotates between the three institutions each year.

Click here for the full playlist of videos produced of presenters at the conference, including the following:

• Hospital partnerships with community practices
  Paul King, CMPE, executive director of C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital
• The evolution of cardiovascular surgery
  Ed Bove, M.D., C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
• Training the next generation of CHD medical professionals
  Ed Bove, M.D., C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
• Is public reporting ready for primetime? The cardiac surgery outcomes reporting debate
  Jennifer Romano, M.D. C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
  Jeffrey Jacobs, M.D., All Children’s Hospital
  Thomas Spray, M.D., Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Renewing your purpose as a medical professional
  Vic Strecher, Ph.D., M.P.H., U-M School of Public Health
• Transition of care for CHD patients: Lessons for the journey from adolescence to adulthood
  Adrienne Kovacs, Ph.D., Peter Munk Cardiac Center
• The next arterial switch: Closing the global divide
  Sir Magdi Yacoub, M.D.,  Imperial College of London
• Advances in treating lymphatic abnormalities in CHD patients
  Dr. Yoav Dori, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Initiation of early discharge teaching for CHD patients in the inpatient setting
  Jennifer Long, RN,  C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
• In Vivo Cardiac Regenerative Properties of Human Neonatal Thymus MSCs
  Shuyun Wang, Ph.D., C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
• What is the process around testing liver severity to triage heart-liver transplant recipients?
  Tara Karamlou, M.D., University of California, San Francisco
• The evolving cardiac surgeon- Infant surgery and the diagnostic echo
  Roberta Williams, M.D., Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles
• Empowering nurses to effect international change
  Sandy Staveski, RN, UCSF

Physicians, surgeons, nurses, administrators, students, fellows, residents, social workers and other health care professionals who care for children with complex congenital heart disease traveled from more than a dozen state and four countries for the conference.

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