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Gary D. Webb, MD

Director, Cincinnati Adolescent and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-803-1777

Fax: 513-803-1778

Email: gary.webb@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Adult congenital heart disease and Marfan syndrome

Biography

Gary D. Webb, MD, is a professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He is director of the Adolescent and Adult Congenital Heart Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Heart Institute.

After receiving a BSC and MDCM from McGill University in Montréal, Québec, he went on to intern at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montréal, and then to training in internal medicine and cardiology at the University of Toronto. After 8 years as chief of cardiology at the Wellesley Hospital in Toronto, he moved back to Toronto General Hospital.

Beginning in 1980, he was co-director and then director of the Toronto Congenital Cardiac Center for Adults. For several years, he directed the adult cardiology training program at the University of Toronto. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in both internal medicine and cardiology. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, and a life member of the European Society of Cardiology.

In 2004, he relocated to Philadelphia, serving as director of the Philadelphia Adult Congenital Heart Center at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2009, he took up his current position at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

Education and Training

MD: McGill University, Montréal, Québec, 1967.

Residency: Internal medicine and cardiology, University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario, Canada.

Fellowship: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Cardiology), 1972; Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Internal Medicine), 1972; Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, 1976.

Publications

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Knowles R, Veldtman G, Hickey EJ, Bradley T, Gengsakul A, Webb GD, Williams WG, McCrindle BW. Functional Health Status of Adults with Tetralogy of Fallot: Marched Comparison with Healthy Siblings. Ann Thorac Surg. 2012 Jul;94(1):124-32.

Webb G. The long road to better ACHD care. Congenital Heart Dis. 2010 May-Jun;5(3):198-205.

Khairy P, Aboulhosn J, Gurvitz MZ, Opotowsky AR, Mongeon FP, Kay J, Valente AM, Earing MG, Lui G, Gersony DR, Cook S, Ting JG, Nickolaus MJ, Webb G, Landzberg MJ, Broberg CS; Alliance for Adult Research in Congenital Cardiology (AARCC). Arrhythmia burden in adults with surgically repaired tetralogy of Fallot: a multi-institutional study. Circulation. 2010 Aug 31;122(9):868-75.

Valente AM, Bhatt AB, Cook S, Earing MG, Gersony DR, Aboulhosn J, Opotowsky AR, Lui G, Gurvitz M, Graham D, Fernandes SM, Khairy P, Webb G, Gerhard-Herman M, Landzberg MJ; AARCC (Alliance for Adult Research in Congenital Cardiology) Investigators. The CALF (Congenital Heart Disease in Adults Lower Extremity Systemic Venous Health in Fontan Patients) study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2010 Jul 6;56(2):144-50.

Silversides CK, Kiess M, Beauchesne L, Bradley T, Connelly M, Niwa K, Mulder B, Webb G, Colman J, Therrien J. Canadian Cardiovascular Society 2009 Consensus Conference on the management of adults with congenital heart disease: outflow tract obstruction, coarctation of the aorta, tetralogy of Fallot, Ebstein anomaly and Marfan's syndrome. Can J Cardiol. 2010 Mar;26(3):e80-97.

Apitz C, Webb GD, Redington AN. Tetralogy of Fallot. Lancet. 2009 Oct;374(9699):1462-71.

Opotowsky AR, Siddiqi OK, Webb, GD. Trends in hospitalizations for adults with congenital heart disease in the US. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009 Jul;54(5):460-7.

Schwerzmann M, Salehian O, Harris L, Siu SC, Williams WG, Webb GD, Colman JM, Redington A, Silversides CK. Ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death in adults after a Mustard operations for transposition of the great arteries. Eur Heart J. 2009 Aug;30(15):1873-9.

Hickey EJ, Veldtman G, Bradley TJ, Gengsakul A, Manlhiot C, Williams WG, Webb GD, McCrindle BW. Late risk of outcomes for adults with repaired tetralogy of Fallot from an inception cohort spanning four decades. European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery. 2009 Jan;35(1):156-64.

Tzemos N, Silversides CK, Colman JM, Therrien J, Webb, GD, Mason J, Cocoara E, Sermer M, Siu SC. Late cardiac outcomes after pregnancy in women with congenital aortic stenosis. American Heart Journal. 2009;157(3):474-480.