Meet Our Team
We have built a reputation for taking on high-acuity patients and we are receiving referrals for those patients around the region.

James Tweddell, MD Executive Co-Director of the Heart Institute

Reputation leads to boom in cardiac surgery
James Tweddell, MD Executive Co-Director, Heart Institute; Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery

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James Tweddell, MD

Executive Co-Director, Heart Institute; Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery 513-803-8824 james.tweddell@cchmc.org
What makes us different? Our goal is not to perform the most cases, but to perform the most innovative ones.
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Andrew Redington, MD Executive Co-Director, Heart Institute; Chief, Pediatric Cardiology

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Andrew Redington, MD

Executive Co-Director, Heart Institute; Chief, Pediatric Cardiology andrew.redington@cchmc.org
Cincinnati Children's is already one of the leading Children's Hospitals in the world let alone the United States. What really impresses me though, is that that's not enough.
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Jeffrey Robbins, PhD Executive Co-Director, Heart Institute; Director, Molecular Cardiovascular Biology

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Jeffrey Robbins, PhD

Executive Co-Director, Heart Institute; Director, Molecular Cardiovascular Biology 513-636-8098 jeffrey.robbins@cchmc.org
We're all directed towards a single goal – that is to make a difference and cure pediatric heart disease.
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Thomas Kimball, MD Medical Director, Heart Institute

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Thomas Kimball, MD

Medical Director, Heart Institute 513-636-8270 tom.kimball@cchmc.org
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Gruschen Veldtman, FRCP, MBChB Director, Adolescent and Adult Congenital Heart Disease

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Gruschen Veldtman, FRCP, MBChB

Director, Adolescent and Adult Congenital Heart Disease 513-803-2243 gruschen.veldtman@cchmc.org
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Lisa Lee, MD Director, Outpatient Services, Heart Institute

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Lisa Lee, MD

Director, Outpatient Services, Heart Institute 859-344-4732 lisa.lee@cchmc.org
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Improving Regional Pediatric Heart Care as a Team
We are pushing the field forward with lung assist devices as a way to bridge children to lung transplant and rehabilitate them by getting them extubated, out of bed and well nourished to optimize their post-transplant outcomes.

David L.S. Morales, MD Director, Congenital Heart Surgery

Lung Assist Devices Provide Possible Bridge to Transplant for Patients in Lung Failure
Angela Lorts, MD Medical Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support

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Angela Lorts, MD

Medical Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support 513-803-4580 angela.lorts@cchmc.org
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Roosevelt Bryant III, MD Surgical Director, Pediatric Heart Transplant Program

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Roosevelt Bryant III, MD

Surgical Director, Pediatric Heart Transplant Program 513-636-4770 roosevelt.bryantIII@cchmc.org
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Heart Valve Tissue Engineering: Making Strides
New Transcatheter Valve Further Expands Non-Surgical Pulmonary Valve Replacement Options for Patients
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This technology would make it possible to predict the eventual cardiac phenotype in pediatric patients and help guide their treatment and future monitoring.

Jeffery D. Molkentin, PhD Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Experimental Method Uses Genetics-Guided Biomechanics, Patient-Specific Stem Cells