Contributors Iki Adachi, MD Associate Surgeon, Congenital Heart Surgery, Co-Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Texas Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery and Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine Rachele Adorisio, MD Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist, Heart Failure & Cardiomyopathy Program; Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery; Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital & Research Institute, Rome, Italy Antonio Amodeo, MD Surgical Director Heart Failure Unit, Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital & Research Institute, Rome, Italy
Professor of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy Scott R. Auerbach, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Director, VAD Program, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Children's Hospital Colorado Heart Institute Elizabeth D. Blume, MD Medical Director, Advanced Cardiac Therapies, Boston Children's Hospital Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Sarah Burki, MD PostDoctoral Research Associate, Division of Congenital Heart Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Charles E. Canter, MD Lois B Tuttle and Jeanne B. Hauck Professor of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, Medical Director Heart Failure/Transplant, St. Louis Children's Hospital Chesney Castleberry, MD Assistant Professor, Pediatric Cardiology Heart Failure and Transplant Service Washington University
in St. Louis School of Medicine Jonathan M. Chen, MD Professor and Chief, Congenital Cardiac Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Sam and Althea Stroum Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Co-Director, Heart Center, Seattle Children's Hospital Sharon Chen, MD, MPH Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Jennifer Conway, MD, FRCP Assistant Professor, Cardiology, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Stollery Children`s Hospital, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada David S. Crossland MB ChB, MRCPCH Consultant Congenital Cardiologist, Department of Congenital Cardiology, Freeman Hospital,
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Fabrizio De Rita, MD Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Shriprasad R. Deshpande, MD, MS Medical Director, Mechanical Circulatory System Program Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in Pediatric Cardiology Emory University/Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA Lucas J.Eastaugh, MD Pediatric Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne,
Clinical Research Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute Pirooz Eghtesady, MD, PhD Professor and Emerson Chair, Chief, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University St. Louis, Co-Director, Heart Center, Cardiothoracic Surgeon-in-Chief, St. Louis Children's Hospital Matthew Fenton, MB, BS, MRCPCH Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Darren H. Freed, MD, PhD, FRCSC Associate Professor of Surgery, Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta
Stollery Children's Hospital and Mazankowski Albert Heart Institute, Edmonton, Alberta Asif Hasan, FRCS (CTh) Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Roland Hetzer, MD, PhD Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Universitaetsmedizin Berlin-Charité, Former Director and Chairman, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Cardio Centrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany Michael Huebler, MD Professor and Chief, University Children's Hospital, Division of Pediatric Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Zurich, Switzerland Tilman Humpl MD, PhD Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children,
University of Toronto, Toronto Canada Robert D.B. Jaquiss, MD Chief of Congenital Heart Surgery
UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas Aamir Jeewa, MD, FAAP, FRCPC Section Head, Cardiomyopathy & Heart Function Program, Division of Pediatric Cardiology,
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada Ann Karimova, MD Consultant in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children,
London, United Kingdom Steven J. Kindel, MD Medical Director Advanced Heart Failure & Heart Transplantation, Herma Heart Center,
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin Richard Kirk, MA, FRCP, FRCPCH Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Pediatric Transplantation, Heart Failure and Mechanical Support Program, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas James K. Kirklin, MD Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Director, Kirklin Institute for Research in
Surgical Outcomes (KIRSO), Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham Roxanne Kirsch, MD, MBE Assistant Professor Pediatrics, Cardiac Critical Care Medicine, Department of Critical Care & Anesthesia; Department of Bioethics, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children Igor E. Konstantinov, MD, PhD, FRACS Professor, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Melbourne, Australia Jodie Lantz, MSN, RN, PCNS-BC VAD CNS, Children's Health Dallas, Texas Angela Lorts, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics Medical Director, Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device Program Director, Solid Organ Transplant Center Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medcial Center Mary E. Mehegan, BSN, RN, CCRN VAD Coordinator, St. Louis Children's Hospital Oliver Miera, MD Dpt. for Congenital Heart Disease, Pediatric Cardiology, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin Shelley D. Miyamoto, MD Jack Cooper Millisor Chair in Pediatric Heart Disease, Director, Cardiomyopathy Program, Children's Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado Denver David L.S. Morales, MD Professor of Pediatrics and Surgery, Clark-Helmsworth Chair and Director of Congenital Heart Surgery, The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Mustafa Ozbaran MD Professor, Cardiac Surgeon, Director of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Director of Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support Programs, Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey Michelle Ploutz, MD Advanced Heart Failure Fellow, The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA David M. Peng, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, Director of Pediatric Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support, University of Michigan Parthak Prodhan, MD Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology and Critical Care, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas Leigh Christopher Reardon, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center, Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles Ivan M. Rebeyka, MD Clinical Professor of Surgery & Pediatrics, University of Alberta & Stollery Childrens Hospitals,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada David N. Rosenthal, MD Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Director PACT, Stanford Children's Health, Stanford University
Palo Alto, California Joseph W. Rossano, MD, M.S. Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Executive Director, The Cardiac Center Medical Director, Heart Failure and Transplantation, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Leonardo Salazar, MD, MSc Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist and Intensivist, Director ECMO and VAD Program, Colombian Cardiovascular Foundation, Bucaramanga, Colombia Janet N. Scheel, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington School of Medicine Children's National Health System, Washington, DC Martin Schweiger, MD, FEBS University Children's Hospital, Division of Pediatric Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Zurich, Switzerland Christina VanderPluym, MD Associate in Cardiology, Director, Ventricular Assist Device Program, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard School of Medicine Chet R. Villa,...
