Critical Care of Children with Heart Disease Basic Medical and Surgical Concepts

Ricardo Muñoz  , MD, is chief of the Division of Cardiac Critical Medicine , Executive Director , Telemedicine , Co-Director , Childrens’s National Heart  Institute , Professor of Pediatrics , George Washington University School of Medicine , Children’s National Health System. Dr. Muñoz is a fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics , fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and fellow of the American College of Cardiology.

Victor O. Morell , MD, is the Chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery and Surgeon-In-Chief of UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and the Eugene S. Wiener Professor and Chair, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh.   Dr. Morell received his medical degree from the Ponce School of Medicine in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1988.  He completed his cardiothoracic residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and his pediatric cardiothoracic surgerytraining at Boston Children’s Hospital and at the Great Ormond Hospital for Sick Children in London. 

Eduardo M. da Cruz MD is the Associate Medical Director of the Heart Institute, Head of the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Program and Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Section and Inpatient Services at Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine. He holds the title of Tenured Full Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology & Intensive Care. He has delivered close to 300 international lectures, published 80 book chapters and close to 100 manuscripts, and is a reviewer for 26 peer-reviewed journals, and the Editor or Co-Editor of seven CICU and Cardiology textbooks. He is the founder of the Working Group on Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care of the Association for the European Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC), Past-Chair and founder of the Section on Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Intensive Care & Mechanical Circulatory Support of the European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC), member of the Society of Pediatric Research (SPR) and of multiple other international Societies. Eduardo da Cruz is also an Expert Reviewer for the European Commission Horizon 2020 Project, and the President and Chair of the Board of Surgeons of Hope Foundation, a United Nations-affiliated Non-Governmental Organization based in New York, USA.

Carol Vetterly , PharmD, BCPS, BCPPS, is the Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator and Clinical Pharmacist in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She is Board Certified in Pharmacotherapy and Pediatric Pharmacotherapy and a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Vetterly graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and completed a post-graduate Doctorate of Pharmacy at Duquesne University.

José P. da Silva, MD  is a visiting professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and surgical director of the Center for Valve Therapy at the Heart Institute at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. Founding Director, Da Silva Center for Ebstein’s Anomaly. Cardiothoracic surgery training at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. da Silva is internationally recognized as the creator of the cone procedure, the worldwide standard of care for the surgical treatment of Ebstein’s anomaly. He has authored numerous publications and lectured extensively on the cone procedure throughout the world. Dr. da Silva’s clinical interests include congenital heart disease, heart and heart-lung transplantation, adult cardiac surgery, and pediatric cardiac surgery. Dr. da Silva is affiliated to UPMC - Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.