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This one-year, ACGME-accredited training experience is designed to promote expertise through outstanding clinical, surgical, academic, investigative and administrative instruction. Our Heart Center is one of the higher-volume pediatric heart centers in the nation with a survival rate frequently above the national average.

The Ward Family Center for Congenital Heart Disease includes 30 board-certified pediatric cardiologists and three congenital cardiothoracic surgeons, 8 cardiac intensivists, and 8 cardiac anesthesiologists and over 30 advanced practice nurses with support from nursing, social work, nutrition and exercise physiology. The high-volume center offers the region's most comprehensive care from birth to young adulthood for congenital and acquired heart disease, boasting outstanding clinical facilities, and research training opportunities.

Academic curriculum

Learn more about the curriculum, including didactics, courses and workshops.

Faculty and fellows

Meet the team of fellows and faculty for the Congenital Cardiac Surgery fellowship.

Apply for the program

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Our Congenital Cardiac Surgery Fellowship team

James O'Brien, MD, FACS
Program Director
jobrien@cmh.edu

Danelle Vogt, MBA
Fellowship Coordinator
dkvogt@cmh.edu