Integrating Research and Clinical Care for World-Class Results
We are a worldwide leader in clinical cardiology care and research. Our experienced team has achieved outcomes that rival or surpass those at other top centers, for even the most challenging cases.
In 2010, U.S. News & World Report ranked us ninth in the nation for heart care and heart surgery. We’re a referral center for patients from across the United States and the world; in one year, we treated patients from 42 states and 20 countries.
We are transforming pediatric cardiac care with a first-of-its-kind bridge between research, headed by cardiovascular biology researcher Jeffrey Robbins, PhD, and clinical care, led by cardiologist Jeffrey Towbin, MD. This cutting-edge approach drives the exchange of information from bench to bedside, and facilitates each discipline’s ability to respond to the other. The result is world-class pediatric heart care.
The Heart Institute team has pioneered many advances in pediatric cardiology, including numerous transcatheter (non-surgical) interventional therapies, echocardiography of complex cardiac malformations and the evaluation of cardiac disease during exercise stress.
We offer team-oriented, interdisciplinary diagnosis and treatment for the full spectrum of pediatric cardiac problems. Our team members are among the best in their respective fields; Heart Institute clinicians are board certified in not just one, but in as many as three and four areas related to pediatric heart care. Our staff includes acclaimed pioneers of procedures that have changed heart care across the nation, including catheter interventions and echocardiography in congenital heart disease.
We are one of only a handful of centers nationwide with a dedicated Preventive Cardiology clinic for childhood hypertension, lipid disorders and obesity. Our unique capabilities also include a comprehensive cardiomyopathy program, adolescent and adult congenital heart disease program and cardiovascular genetics program.
