Another productive Florida Chapter ACC American College of Cardiology Board Meeting headed by Chapter President David Winchester @drdavemd.bsky.social! Nice to see old friends & welcome new board members! So excited to jumpstart the annual FLACC Scientific Sessions at the Walt Disney World Grand Floridian! Check out the #CHD session on

Presenting this American College of Cardiology #ACCWIC #WICACPC landmark study: Gender Gap: Variation in Women’s Representation Among Leadership Positions in Pediatric Cardiology Programs across North America with Alaina Kipps Corey Stiver, MD, FAAP, FACC chris ronai md RituSachdeva @aartisdalal at the

🫶🏼Learned a lot from this 👫Standing Room Only 👬👭WCPCCS2023 session as a co-moderator with Shelby Kutty, MD, PhD, MHCM & Isra Valverde 🫶🏼! 🔥 presentations on: 🫶🏼Mark A Fogel on XMR #whycmr 🫶🏼Rebecca Beroukhim on biventricular conversion 🫶🏼Michael Taylor on SV myocardial mechanics &

.UF Congenital Heart Center at WCPCCS2023! We’re so proud of this team. 🫶

In Chicago for the NPC-QIC XXX SEX FON Fall 2023 Learning Session, as we come together to improve outcomes of Single Ventricle 🫀patients! #HLHS #StrongerTogether

At the NPC-QIC XXX SEX FON learning session talking about mental health of single ventricle pts: JAMA Pediatrics article on survey of peds subspecialty fellows: 🫶🏼57% ⬆️ level of interest in emotional/mental health needs of kids with chronic medical conditions 🫶🏼63% reported

UFPCCM Fellows UF Surgery UF Congenital Heart Center

Had an amazing time meeting medical students, residents, fellows, early career WICs during the SPEED Mentoring session at the #ACCWIC Leadership Workshop! You all inspire me to be a better #ACCWIC 🫶🏼! #ACCLegCon 👩🏾‍⚕️👩🏼‍⚕️👩🏻‍⚕️👩‍⚕️👩🏽‍⚕️

🎉 Honored to receive the Exemplary Teacher Award from the FLORIDA College of Medicine UF Medicine! Teaching is my passion, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to inspire and educate the next generation of medical professionals. Thank you for this recognition! 🙏📚 🩺 👩🏽‍⚕️🧑🏻‍⚕️ 👨🏿‍⚕️👩

If you know UF Congenital Heart Center, chances are you also know Connie Nixon, one of our longtime nurses. She’s been invited to everything from patient weddings to baby showers! Today, she received the Lead Nurse award from Drs.@JuliaLClose, Irene Alexaitis and RN Letitia Blanche. Congratulations!

SOCIETY OF PEDIATRIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY 🔈Sounds on! 🔈 University of Florida Congenital Heart Center UF Congenital Heart Center Witches 🧙🏻 of Echo Lab Defying Gravity with these light-up witches hats! We’ve also used it to entertain the kids as they got their Halloween 🎃 echos! #nosedationrequired

Always nice to end the week of inpatient service with “Lecture and Lunch”🥗 to thank my amazing team for their hard work! 🩺 👶🏻 “Chalk (Draw) and talk” is my favorite way to teach CHD physiology 🫀! #MedEd UF Medicine UF Congenital Heart Center UF Health UFPedsResidency

Research highlight: In an invited commentary, Drs.Mark Bleiweis, Thiago Beduschi, Werviston Faria, Giles Peek and Jeff Jacobs discuss the advancement of combined heart and liver transplantation techniques and best practices. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery UF Surgery authors.elsevier.com/a/1i7bVovKdScg

It’s an honor to give FLORIDA Pediatric Grand Rounds this morning talking about Innovations in the Care of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome to cap off #CHDAwarenessWeek and #HeartMonth 🫀❤️! UF Congenital Heart Center UFPedsResidency UF Medicine

Today, Miller Medicine is recognizing Dr. Jeff Jacobs with a Hall of Fame Award for his contributions to medical innovation. Congratulations, Dr. Jacobs!

From rare heart defect diagnosis to active 11-year-old who rides horses — Grace's journey shows the miracles at FLORIDA Health. Read her story: ufhealth.org/stories/2025/t… #HeartWarrior #HLHS

Learn more about ECMO with Giles Peek, professor of surgery and pediatrics at the UF Congenital Heart Center, on the latest episode of the MD Roundtable podcast! 🐊🧡💙🐊 buzzsprout.com/1944164/episod…

How did a childhood trip to the operating room lead one young man to a career there? See how Matthew Purley's experiences as a patient encouraged him to spend his life helping others as a physician. 👇 ufhealth.org/stories/2025/a…

Congratulations to Jennifer Co-Vu, M.D., Diego Moguillansky, M.D., M.S., and Joseph Philip, M.D., who have all been promoted to the rank of clinical professor at the UF Health Congenital Heart Center! 🐊🧡💙🐊 Read more 👇 chc.med.ufl.edu/2025/07/07/fac…

Our paper in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery represents decades of work helping infants and children using the Berlin Heart ventricular assist device; and a record for the most placements at a single institution. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lUgvovKl4S3