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Overview / How to Register
The Fetal Heart Society will host its Inaugural Scientific Session on November 4, 2021, during the Phoenix Fetal Cardiology Symposium Pre-Conference, bringing together national experts from multiple subspecialties covering topics of research, counseling, and challenging case review.
Come learn about projects we are undertaking and our vision for the future! Intended audience includes physicians, sonographers, nurses, and trainees in fields of cardiology, obstetrics, maternal-fetal medicine, genetics, and radiology.
We look forward to you joining us in November!
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and Phoenix Children’s Hospital. The University of Arizona College of Medicine– Tucson is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson designates this live activity for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Non-Members – $150
FHS Members – $100*
*Must use promo code on registration page for $50 discount. Promo code & instructions can be found by logging into your FHS Membership account and clicking on “Promo Code for FHS Scientific Session” on the right side of the FHS homepage (you may have to scroll down).
Faculty
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Bhawna Arya, MD, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Director of Fetal Cardiology in the Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment Program at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She is a pediatric cardiologist with advanced cardiovascular imaging training focused in fetal echocardiography and advanced modalities in transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography. Her research interests are focused in fetal cardiac imaging, counseling, and short and long-term outcomes. She has also spent the last several years developing and expanding a robust multidisciplinary prenatal program which serves a large geographical area spanning 5 states. At a national level, she serves on the American Society of Echocardiography Council on Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Steering Committee and the Executive Board, Publications Committee and Correspondence Committee of the Fetal Heart Society.
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Mary Donofrio, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine and is a Pediatric/Fetal cardiologist at Children’s National Hospital in Washington DC. She is Medical Director of Fetal Cardiology, Director of the Critical Care Delivery Program and Advanced Cardiac Imaging Fellowship, and Founder and Co-director of the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Program. Dr. Donofrio specializes in fetal diagnosis and in-utero management of congenital heart disease (CHD), first trimester fetal cardiac imaging, critical care delivery room management for complex CHD, and neurodevelopmental outcome assessment of children with CHD. In 2004 she created an evidenced-based risk-assessment protocol for delivery room management which is now the standard of care for newborns with CHD. She is an international expert in fetal cardiology and has published over 100 papers, including the American Heart Association Scientific Statement on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Fetal Cardiac Disease. She is the Founding and current President of the Fetal Heart Society, a non-profit organization created to advance the field of fetal cardiovascular care and science through collaborative research, education and mentorship.
Nathalie Dutil, RN, BScN obtained her BScN from McGill University in 1990. She began her nursing career at the Montreal Children’s Hospital in pediatric cardiology and neurology and at the Montreal Neurological Institute as a nurse manager and educator. Nathalie joined the SickKids team in Toronto in 1998. She was also a Prenatal Class Nurse Educator for Toronto Public Health and St-Joseph’s Health Center from 1999 to 2003. In 2010, Nathalie had the opportunity and privilege of creating the role of Clinical Nurse Coordinator for the SickKids Fetal Cardiac Program.
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Rupali Gandhi, MD JD, is a pediatric and fetal cardiologist, program director of the pediatric cardiology fellowship, and the director of pediatric ethics at Advocate Children’s Hospital. She leads the pediatric ethics advisory committee and is the lead clinical ethicist for consultations. Dr. Gandhi’s research interests are within the field of bioethics, including pre-natal counseling, legal issues in advancing technologies within medicine, and pediatric decision-making. Her recent publications have concentrated on the merits of regionalization of pediatric cardiac surgery, the inadequacy of health care surrogacy laws for decision-making for children, and scarce resource allocation during the Covid-19 pandemic. She served on the Illinois Department of Health Crisis Standards of Care ethics committee and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Pediatric Ethics Affinity Group steering committee. She completed her MD and JD at Yale, pediatric residency and cardiology fellowship training at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Bioethics Fellowship at Harvard.
For nearly 3 decades, Dr. Lisa Hornberger, MD, has been involved in clinical, educational and
research endeavors related to fetal and neonatal cardiovascular health and disease. She has
evolved and directed 4 internationally recognized fetal cardiology programs the last of which at the University of Alberta (2008-2020). She has also been the Director of the University of Alberta’s Pediatric Echocardiography Lab for more than a decade. She has been responsible for the subspecialty training of innumerable clinical trainees within fetal and pediatric echocardiography from pediatric, obstetrical and radiology specialties. She has also supervised many graduate and undergraduate students in research. She has published 170 peer-reviewed articles and co-authored textbooks in the clinical and fundamental sciences focused on the early fetal diagnosis, evolution, management and outcomes of fetal and neonatal structural, functional and rhythm-related cardiovascular disease. Her research has more recently expanded to understanding the impact of early adverse exposures, including diabetes and heart disease in the mother in pregnancy and preterm birth, on short and long-term cardiovascular health, the impact of socioeconomic status and remoteness of residence from specialty care on the prenatal detection and perinatal and postnatal outcomes of infants and children with congenital heart disease, and cardiac development and function and its relationship to health of the placenta from the 1st trimester of pregnancy through early infancy. Her research has spanned clinical, population, health services and basic science research pillars through strategic collaborations with local/regional, national and international colleagues.
Joyce Johnson is an assistant professor of pediatric cardiology. Her primary clinical interests include fetal and pediatric echocardiography and her primary academic interest is in value(outcomes and cost) research in congenital heart disease, including improving the value and outcome for patients diagnosed fetally with congenital heart disease. Her primary academic pursuit is to develop a cardiovascular research mission in which she aims to develop a value-based health care delivery model to improve the efficiency and efficacy of care provided to children with congenital heart disease from the fetus to the adult in order to transform the way we deliver care and optimize their outcomes and cost.
Dr. Roxanne Kirsch joined Sick Children in 2016 in the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Division of Cardiac Critical Care, and in the Department of Bioethics. Dr. Kirsch was previously on faculty at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) since 2009 as a Cardiac Intensivist. She completed a Masters degree in Biomedical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania in 2016. Her academic work focuses on the ethical and social challenges of stopping advanced therapies, end of life care, and use of non-beneficial ICU therapies in terminal illness. Her interests include improving patient care delivery by enhancing health care workers’ facility in understanding and dealing with the ethical issues intendant to pediatric critical care and cardiology.
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Anita Krishnan, MD is a pediatric cardiologist and clinician scientist, who interests are focused on advanced cardiac imaging, including fetal and peri-operative imaging. Her clinical work is in the echocardiography lab, as well as inpatient and outpatient cardiology. She currently serves as associate director of Echocardiography, with additional roles as a faculty affiliate in the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation and Children’s Health Advocacy Institute. Dr. Krishnan’s research interests in fetal cardiology include fetal ECG, as well as reducing health disparities in fetal cardiovascular disease. She is the PI on an NIH funded study to clinically translate a fetal ECG device, and is PI on federal and foundation funded studies related to fetal ECG and fetal health disparities. During the pandemic, she has been active in developing cardiac imaging protocols for pediatric COVID and MISC.
Christopher Lindblade, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and the Director of the Fetal Cardiology Program at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. He is a pediatric cardiologist with expertise in advanced imaging modalities including fetal echocardiography and transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography. Dr. Lindblade received his BS from Wheaton College and completed his pediatric cardiology training at Indiana University. He is Chair of the Annual Phoenix Children’s Fetal Cardiology Symposium. He serves as co-Chair of the Conference Committee and Secretary on the Executive Board of the Fetal Heart Society.
Anita Moon-Grady, MD, FAAP, FAAC, FASE, is the director of the Fetal Cardiovascular Program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. She uses her training in pediatric cardiology and neonatal/perinatal medicine to raise awareness and increase detection of fetal heart problems. Dr. Moon-Grady earned a medical degree from Stanford University, where she also received a Dean’s Award for research in human genetics. At UC Davis, she completed her residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in neonatal/perinatal medicine. Her pediatric cardiology fellowship was completed at UCSF. Dr. Moon-Grady is a member of the American Society of Echocardiography and the American Medical Association. She has been elected fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Society of Echocardiography. She also serves on the board for the Pediatric Council of the American Society of Echocardiography. Dr. Moon-Grady is a founding member of the steering committee for the International Fetal Cardiac Intervention Registry and the UCSF steering committee representative to the North American Fetal Therapy Network (NAFTNet).
Shaine A Morris, MD MPH, is a fetal and pediatric cardiologist at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) / Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She is an Associate Professor, the Associate Director for Fetal Cardiac Intervention, Associate Fellowship Program Director, and the Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Program at TCH. Dr. Morris uses her combined training in cardiovascular imaging and clinical research design and analysis to lead and collaborate in many types of fetal cardiology research. These investigations range from prospective studies of catheter-based and oxygen-based fetal interventions to state and national population level research. Her overarching focus is using the prenatal and perinatal period to optimize outcomes in children with congenital heart disease. She also currently serves on the Executive Board and Research Collaborative Committee of the Fetal Heart Society.
Sonila Mustafa, RN, MBA(CE), graduated in 2007 from the University of Windsor with a bachelor degree of Science in Nursing and is currently working on her MSc in Business Administration. During her 13+ year career with the Labatt Family Heart Center at Sickkids, she was extensively involved in research such as NIH supported Multi-Center Clinical Trials where she attended the Cardiovascular Genetics in Clinical Practice at Harvard Medical School and Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation research trials. She has been recognized as a valued preceptor in contributing to clinical education from Sickkids and Lawrence S. Bloomberg, Faculty of Nursing, U of T. In 2013, she joined the Fetal Cardiac Program which creates a seamless continuum of care for the fetus with heart disease. From initial diagnosis to prenatal evaluation, learning about the heart defect, infant delivery, intensive care management, cardiac surgery and beyond, she helps provide coordination of services and a compassionate voice for parents and families.
Angira Patel, MD, MPH, is a Pediatric and Fetal Cardiologist and medical ethicist at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Her research interests lie at the intersection of pediatric and fetal cardiology and clinical medical ethics. She explores the societal, ethical, and legal implications of emerging technology and intervention as it relates to medical management and shared decision-making in patients with congenital heart disease. She also created and directs a Bioethics Program for residents and fellows at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and is on the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on the Bioethics executive committee.
Dr. Shabnam Peyvandi, MD, MAS, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital and the Associate Director of the Fetal Cardiovascular Program. She is a pediatric cardiologist that specializes in fetal diagnosis and management of congenital heart disease. She is s funded physician researcher with a focus on neurodevelopmental outcomes in CHD. She founded and co-directs the Healthy Hearts & Minds Program at UCSF, which is a longitudinal follow-up program focused on the development and well-being of children with CHD across the life span. is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital and the Associate Director of the Fetal Cardiovascular Program. She is a pediatric cardiologist that specializes in fetal diagnosis and management of congenital heart disease. She is s funded physician researcher with a focus on neurodevelopmental outcomes in CHD. She founded and co-directs the Healthy Hearts & Minds Program at UCSF, which is a longitudinal follow-up program focused on the development and well-being of children with CHD across the life span.
Dr. Nelangi Pinto is an Associate Professor in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah. She is also the Director of the Fetal Heart Program at Primary Children’s Hospital. She received her undergraduate education at the Harvard University and her M.D. from University of Michigan Medical School. After completing postgraduate training in Pediatrics at the University of Washington she undertook specialty training in Pediatric Cardiology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Pinto’s research is focused on improving prenatal detection of congenital heart disease and understanding the impact of prenatal diagnosis on outcomes. She also has an interest in improving the specialty health care delivery to more rural and distant populations.
Dr. Randall Ricardi is a child and adolescent psychiatry specialist in Phoenix, Arizona and has been practicing for over 30 years.
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John D. Lantos, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics at University of Missouri – Kansas City and Director of the Children’s Mercy Hospital Bioethics Center. He studies health policy, doctor-patient communication, neonatal outcomes, and ethical issues in pediatric research and oversees a post-doctoral training program in pediatric bioethics. Dr. Lantos is past president of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, and the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics. He is an Associate Editor of The American Journal of Bioethics. He has written eleven books and hundreds of peer-reviewed papers about bioethical issues. His latest books are Kidney to Share, about ethical issues in living organ donation, and The Ethics of Shared Decision Making.
David Schidlow, MD, MMus, is a pediatric/fetal cardiologist and cardiac imaging specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital with expertise in fetal echocardiography, cardiac MRI and cardiac CT. He also directs the Boston Children’s Hospital Heterotaxy Program, a novel multidisciplinary team focused on providing comprehensive care for children with Heterotaxy Syndrome. Dr. Schidlow maintains a busy clinical practice caring for fetuses, infants and children with complex congenital heart disease from the United States and around the world. His diverse research interests include quality improvement in national and international settings, heterotaxy syndrome, and prenatal maternal hyperoxygenation testing. Dr. Schidlow recently served as the Phase II physician lead and Fetal Learning Lab lead for the National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative and on the board of directors of the Fetal Heart Society.
Jackie Shuplock, MD, MSCI, is an assistant professor of pediatric cardiology. In addition to providing pediatric cardiac care, she specializes in the use of fetal, pediatric and transesophageal echocardiography. Dr. Shuplock’s research interests include the use of fetal and postnatal imaging techniques to identify babies and children at high risk for cardiac complications. Dr. Shuplock earned her medical degree from Ohio State University College of Medicine, completed her pediatric residency training at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and completed consecutive fellowships in pediatric cardiology and advanced non-invasive imaging at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville where she was also part of the team monitoring fetal cardiac well-being during in-utero repair of spina bifida.
Dr. Lynn Simpson is the Hillary Rodham Clinton Professor of Women’s Health at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York. As the Director of the MFM program at Columbia, she supports a skilled team of physicians with expertise in maternal medicine, critical-care obstetrics, prenatal pediatrics, high-risk deliveries, and research. Her clinical and research interests include obstetric ultrasound, prenatal diagnosis, and fetal therapy with a specific focus on congenital heart disease and complicated multiple gestations. Dr. Simpson is dedicated to educating and training the future specialists in our field and is honored to be invited to participate in regional and national conferences focused on the fetal heart.
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Wayne Tworetzky, MD, is a senior associate in cardiology, the director of fetal cardiac imaging, and the director of the Fetal Cardiology Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Tworetzky specializes in fetal echocardiography, fetal imaging, and non-invasive cardiac imaging. He received his medical education from University of Stellen Bosch and completed his training at Groote Schuur Hospital and University of California.
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Betul Yilmaz Furtun, MD specializes in pediatric and fetal echocardiography as well as intraoperative assessment during congenital cardiac surgery and fetal surgery. Her clinical and research focus relates to cardiac imaging by echocardiography and fetal echocardiography. I utilize my experience in these areas to study how we can use non-invasive imaging modalities for investigating normal and abnormal cardiac function in patients with congenital heart disease and in fetuses with cardiac compromise. Her primary research interests focus on fetal cardiovascular assessment and cardiac dysfunction in patients with congenital heart disease, in fetuses with congenital abnormalities, and in multiple gestation pregnancies complicated by twin-twin transfusion syndrome.
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FHS Institutional Sponsors
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