Cardiology 2026 - 29th Update on Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease

Abstract Submission Deadline has been extended to Monday, December 10, 2025 11:59 pm EST.

1. Outline the knowns and unknowns within the knowledge base that informs on how best to understand and care for the patient with pediatric and congenital cardiovascular disease.
2. Explain the methods for acquisition and sources of data and knowledge that currently exist and that need to be further developed to provide the means to other optimal care for patients with pediatric & congenital cardiovascular disease.
3. Describe the science and knowledge base of information that supports current state- of-the art clinical practice for the patient with pediatric and congenital cardiovascular disease.

Physician- $1095

Nurse and Other Healthcare Professional- $750

Optional Pre-conference Sessions - $150

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Optional Pickleball Tournament-$

Optional 5K Run- $25

In support of improving patient care, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Member Information

Role in activity

Nature of Relationship(s) / Name of Ineligible Company(s)

Jack Rychik, MD
Director, Fetal Heart Program Director, Fontan Rehabilitation, Wellness, Activity and Resilience Development (FORWARD) Program
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Course Director, Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Anne Ades, MD
Director, Neonatal Education and Simulation Training (NEST) Medical Co-director, Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation Medical Co-director, SDU Neonatal Service Director of ECMO Education, ECMO Center
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Humera Ahmed, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Vivekanand Allada, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Kiona Allen, MD
Attending Physician
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Faculty

Jeffrey Anderson, MD

Faculty

Jordan Awerbach, MD, MPH, FACC
Dr
Phoenix Children's

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Johnson and Johnson (Relationship has ended)

Carl Backes, MD
Nationwide Children's Hospital

Faculty

Puja Banka, MD
Associate Vice President
Merck & Co., Inc.

Faculty

Employment-Merck and Company, Inc.|Stocks or stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds-Merck and Company, Inc.

Lawrence Barnes, MBA
Sr. Director
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Deepti P Bhat, MD
Dr
Phoenix Children's

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Christopher K Breuer, MD
Nationwide Children's

Faculty

Grant or research support-Gunze Limited|Other: Founder-Neovessel Biosciences|Grant or research support-LifeMatrix

Jordan Brimhall, CCP
Chief Perfusionist
Phoenix Children's

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Julie Brothers, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Paid consultant-Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (Relationship has ended)|Speakers Bureau-AiCME (Relationship has ended)|Speakers Bureau-MedLive CME

Emily M Bucholz, MD, PhD
University of Colorado Denver

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Wiliam Kyle Buck, MD

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Antonio Cabrera, MD
Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
nationwide children's hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Donna Calfin, BSN
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Ryan Callahan, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Membership on Advisory Committees or Review Panels, Board Membership, etc.-Cobicure (Relationship has ended)

Paul Chai, MD
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Faculty

Jonathan Chen, MD
Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Medtronic, Inc. (Relationship has ended)|Consulting Fee-W. L. Gore and Associates, Inc.

Bianca Cherestal, MD
Acute Care Cardiologist
Children's Mercy Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

John Cleveland, MD
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Meryl Cohen, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
CHOP

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Mitchell Cohen, MD
Co-Director of the Heart Center
Inova Fairfax Children's Hospital

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Alta Thera

Jill Combs, MSN
Clinical Program Director, Fetal Heart Program
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Andrew Costarino, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Melissa Cousino, PhD

Faculty

Paul J Devlin, MD
CHOP

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

John W Diddle, MD
CICU Attending Physician
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Damon B Dixon, MD
Pediatric Cardiologist
Phoenix Children's

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Yoav Dori, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Stacey Drant, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Anne Dubin, MD
Chief
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Stanford University

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Pirooz Eghtesady, MD, PhD

Faculty

Katie Faella, CCP
Perfusionist
Maine Medical Center

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Emily Falk, PhD
Professor; Vice Dean
University of Pennsylvania

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Panasonic Well (Relationship has ended)|Membership on Advisory Committees or Review Panels, Board Membership, etc.-Kumanu

Christine Falkensammer, MD
MD
CHOP

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Kanwal Farooqi, MD
Associate Professor
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Anne Ferris, MD
Columbia University

Faculty

Mayte Figueroa , MD
Professor of Pediatrics
WashU Medicine

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Mel Filipiak
ECMO Clinical Coordinator
Phoenix Children's Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Desiree Fiorentino, MD, MBA
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Craig Fleishman, MD

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Mark Fogel, M.D.
CHOP

Faculty

Gwen Fosse, BSN, MSA
Clinical Outreach Specialist - Congenital Heart Center
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital - U of Michigan

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Mark Friedberg, MD
Toronto Sick Children's Hospital
Canada

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Alan Friedman, MD
Yale New Haven Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Celia Gagnon, CCP

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Michael Gaies, MD MPH MSc
Executive Co-Director, Heart Institute
Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Dana Gal, MD
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

William Gaynor, MD
CHOP

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Juliana S Gebb, MD
Interim Director of Obstetrical Services
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Tal Geva, MD

Faculty

Matthew Gillespie, MD
Children''s Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Andrew Glatz, MD, MSCE
Professor
St. Louis Children's Hospital

Faculty

Grant or research support-National Institutes of Health

Thomas Glenn, MD

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

David Goldberg, M.D.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Mezzion|Consulting Fee-Inozyme (Relationship has ended)

Elizabeth Goldmuntz, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Stocks or stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds-Abbott Laboratories|Stocks or stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds-Bristol-Myers Squibb|Stocks or stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds-Eli Lilly and Company|Stocks or stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds-Johnson and Johnson

Michael P Goldsmith, MD
Assistant Professor Clinical Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Cardiac Critical Care
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Angela Gooden, DNP, APRN
Director, Advanced Practice
Texas Children's Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Kara Goss, MD
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Joseph Graziano, MD
MD
Phoenix Children's Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Jamie Harrington, MD

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Matthew Harris, MD
MD
chop

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Ericka Hatfield, DO
Phoenix Children's

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Jill Haydusko, MSN
Phoenix Children's

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Caterra Heard-Tate, CCP
Perfusionist
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Holly Hedrick, MD
Surgical Director, ECMO Center
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Britney Hills, Other

Faculty

Erin Hoffmann, Other
Executive Chairman
Additional Ventures

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

David Hoganson, MD
Assistant in Cardiac Surgery
Boston Children's Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Taylor Houlihan, MD
University of Michigan

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Kevin Hummel, Other
Phoenix Children's Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Ramesh Iyer, MD
MD
UPENN

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

James Jaggers, MD
Professor in Surgery and Pediatrics
University of Colorado/Children's Hospital Colorado

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Richard James, Other

Faculty

Robert Jaquiss, MD
Children's Wisconsin

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Matthew Jolley, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Rebecca Josowitz, MD, PhD
Instructor
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Paul Kantor, MD
Dr
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Bethaney Kaye, Other

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Daniel P Kelly, MD
Professor and Director, Penn/CHOP CVI
University of Pennsylvania

Faculty

Jeffrey Kim, MD
Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Yuli Kim, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Molly King, MSN, AC-PNP
PNP-AC
Phoenix Children's

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Catherine Krawczeski, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Nationwide Children's Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Sherri Kubis, MSN
Senior Director Nursing
CHOP

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Lisa Laddish, DNP, RN, CPNP
Clinical Director, Heart Center
Children's Mercy Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Andrew P Landstrom, MD, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Javier Lasa, MD
MD
Children's Health/UT Southwestern Medical Center

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

David M Leone, MD
Assistant Professor
Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Faculty

Consulting Fee-TRPV Pharmaceuticals|Honoraria-University of Nevada (Relationship has ended)

Mark Levin, MD

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Kimberly Lin, M.D.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Membership on Advisory Committees or Review Panels, Board Membership, etc.-Cytokinetics

Christopher Lindblade, MD
Phoenix Children's

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Ramiro Lizano Santamaria, MD
Pediatric Cardiologist
CHOP

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Jennifer Lynch, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Irene D Lytrivi, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Nicolas Madsen, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Faculty

Katsuhide Maeda, MD, MPH
CHOP

Faculty

Alison L Marsden, PhD
Prof
Stanford University

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Renata|Membership on Advisory Committees or Review Panels, Board Membership, etc.-BioGraft, Inc

Audrey C Marshall, MD, MPH
Unaffiliated

Faculty

Consulting Fee-ASKBio|Advisor-Autus

Laura Mercer-Rosa, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Maria-Miriam Melanie Michel, MD
Ass.-Prof.
Medical University of Innsbruck
Austria

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Felina Mille, MD
MD
CHOP

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Jacob Miller, MD
Washington University in St. Louis

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Jena Miller, MD
Assistant Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Johns Hopkins

Faculty

Jena Miller, MD
Assistant Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Johns Hopkins

Faculty

Grant or research support-Johnson and Johnson

Manal Mirreh, MD
CARDIAC ANESTHESIOLOGY
CHOP

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Shelley Miyamoto, MD

Faculty

Silvana Molossi, MD, PhD
Associate Chief, Division of Cardiology and Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Catherine Montgomery, BSN
VAD Coordinator
CHOP

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

David Morales, MD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Faculty

John Nickens, Other

Faculty

Todd Nowlen, MD
Phoenix Childrens Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

James E O'Brien Jr., MD
Children's Mercy Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Michael L O'Byrne, MD
MD MSCE
CHOP

Faculty

Membership on Advisory Committees or Review Panels, Board Membership, etc.-IECURE

Matthew O'Connor, MD
MD

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Paul Offit, MD
Director, Vaccine Education Center
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Alexander Opotowsky, MD, MPH, MMSc
Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Iota (Relationship has ended)

Patty Ozuna, DNP
DNP, CPNP-AC
Phoenix Children's

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Asif Padiyath, MD
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Andrew Papez, MD
Division Chief, Cardiology
Phoenix Children's Hospital

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Rocket Pharmaceuticals|Consulting Fee-Milestone Pharmaceuticals

Sara Pasquali, MD

Faculty

Robert H Pass, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Icahn School of Medicine

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Reena Patel, CPNP-AC
Phoenix Children's Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Lacie Patterson
President
Sisters by Heart

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Gail Pearson, MD
Associate Director
NHLBI/NIH

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Liming Pei, MD

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Daniel Penny, MD, PhD
Professor and Chief
Texas Children's Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Chris Petit, MD
Columbia University Medical Center

Faculty

Shabnam Peyvandi, M.D.
UCSF

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Erin Pinto, MSN, CRNP
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Stephon Proctor, PhD
PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Michael D Quartermain, MD
Medical Director, Pediatric Echo Lab
CHOP

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Geetha Raghuveer, M.D.
Professor
Children's Mercy Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Rahul Rathod, MD
Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School
Boston Children's Hospital

Faculty

Chitra Ravishankar, MD

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Sushma Reddy, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Stanford University

Faculty

David Renaud, Metabolism/Micronutrition
On my own
Poland

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Stacy Reynolds, DNP
DNP, RN, CPNP
Children’s Mercy Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Lindsay Rogers, MD
CHOP

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Ram Rohatgi, MD
Fellow
Mayo Clinic

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Amy Romer, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Joseph Rossano, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Merck and Company, Inc.|Consulting Fee-Astellas|Consulting Fee-Bristol Myers Squibb|Consulting Fee-BioMarin|Consulting Fee-Enzyvant (Relationship has ended)|Consulting Fee-Ask Bio|Consulting Fee-American Regent|Consulting Fee-Bayer

Kaitlyn R Rubnitz, MPAS
Physician Assistant CTOR
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Arash Sabati, MD
Phoenix Children's Hospital

Faculty

Grant or research support-Pfizer, Inc.|Paid consultant-GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences

Christina Salisbury, BSN, RN
ECLS and CKRT Manager
Phoenix Children's Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Jill Savla, MD
Attending Cardiologist
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Kurt R Schumacher, MD
Professor
University of Michigan

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Bayer Corporation

Mark Schwartz, MBA
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Maully Shah, M.D.
CHOP

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Medtronic, Inc.

Rachel Shustak, MD
Attending
CHOP

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Elena Sinkovskaya, Other

Faculty

Christopher Smith, MD, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Susan S Spinner, APRN
Senior Director of the Richard D. Wood Jr. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Michelle M Steltzer, CPNP, AC/PC
Single Ventricle Program
Lurie Children's Heart Center

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Research Partnership with Northwestern Bienen School of Music in partnership with Fontan Choir

Paul Stephens, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Stacy Stravitz, APRN, DNP
PNP-AC
Phoenix Children's Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Daniel Stromberg, MD

Faculty

Animesh Tandon, MD, FAAP, FACC, FAHA
Director of Cardiovascular Innovation
Cleveland Clinic Children's

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Synergen Health Technologies|Stocks or stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds-NVIDIA|Stocks or stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds-Amazon

Jessica Tang, MD
Assistant Professor
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Nikhil Thatte, MD
Boston Children's Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Andrea Torzone, MSN, CPNP, PCNS
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Children's Medical Center Dallas

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Daniel Velez, MD
Div Chief, Cardiac Surgery
Phoenix Children's

Faculty

Carmen Watrin, MSN
Director of Nursing-Cardiac Critical Care
Texas Children's Hospital

Faculty

David S. Winlaw, MD
Lurie Children's Hospital

Faculty

Ownership-Levtech Lifesciences Pty Ltd

Cordula M Wolf, MD
Prof. Dr.
Technical University Hospital German Heart Center
Germany

Faculty

Advisor-Cytokinetics (Relationship has ended)|Paid consultant-Nuevocor|Paid consultant-Anacardio|Paid consultant-Rocket Pharmaceuticals|Paid consultant-Bristol-Myers Squibb|Paid consultant-Biomarin|Paid consultant-Day One Pharmaceuticals (Relationship has ended)|Paid consultant-Novo Nordisk|Paid consultant-Adrenomed|Grant or research support-Pliant (Relationship has ended)|Grant or research support-Day One Pharmaceuticals|Ownership-Preventage

Mahsun Yuerek, MD
MD
CHOP

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Bistra Zheleva, Other

Faculty

Kathryn Dodds, DNP, CRNP
SVSP Program Manager/NP
CHOP

Faculty, Other Planning Committee Member

Nothing to disclose

Tami Rosenthal, MBA, CCP
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Faculty, Other Planning Committee Member

Nothing to disclose

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