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Cardiovascular Program

Clinics and Departments

Meet the Staff

Delivering next-generation care requires a multidisciplinary team. Children’s pediatric cardiovascular team has extensive experience and specialized training in the unique heart problems of infants, children, adolescents, and long-term adult patients with pediatric heart conditions. The Children’s team includes 11 board-certified pediatric cardiologists, two pediatric cardiovascular surgeons, and highly-skilled pediatric cardiac nurses who are certified in the appropriate advanced competencies and skills.

Other team members include caregivers from specialized services such as pediatric critical care, neonatology, extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), pediatric anesthesia, pediatric nursing, laboratory, respiratory therapy, social work, child life, and care management.
During your visit, you may meet some of the following team members:

Cardiovascular program leaders

Medical director, Children’s pediatric cardiology program: Charles M. Baker, MD
Chief, critical care division: Gregory Wright, MD, FACC, FAAP
Clinical services director, critical care division: Pam VanHazinga, BSN, MBA, RN

Pediatric cardiologists

Charles M. Baker, MD, FACC, FAAP
David A. Burton, MD
Kirsten B. Dummer, MD
David B. Gremmels, MD
B. Kelly Gleason Han, MD
James Perry, MD
Amarjit Singh, MD, FACC, FAAP
Thomas M. Sutton, MD, FACC, FAAP
Gregory B. Wright, MD, FACC, FAAP

Pediatric cardiovascular surgeons

Francis X. Moga, MD
David M. Overman, MD, FAAP

ECMO consulting physicians

Virginia A. Hustead, MD
David M. Overman, MD, FAAP
Steven D. Baisch, MD
Francis X. Moga, MD

Cardiac catheterization lab team
Care management specialists
Child life specialists
Echocardiography team
Experienced pediatric nurses
Neonatologists
Occupational therapists
Pediatric anesthesiologists
Pediatric critical care specialists
Pediatric pain specialists
Pediatric respiratory care practitioners
Perfusionists
Physical therapists
Social workers

Health Professionals

For a cardiac-related referral or consultation, call
Children’s Heart Clinic at
1-800-938-0301.

For any other physician referral or
consultation, call Children's Physician Access at
1-866-755-2121 or
(612) 343-2121.

Families

To make a cardiology appointment
Children’s Heart Clinic
(612) 813-8800 or
1-800-938-0301 (toll-free)

Questions about hospital care Children’s – Minneapolis
(612) 813-6100

Children’s – St. Paul
(651) 220-6000

Information on top cardiovascular conditions

Atrioventricular septal defects
Cardiomyopathy
Coarctation of the aorta
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
Other varieties of single ventricle defects
Myocarditis
Tetralogy of Fallot
Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage
Transposition of the great arteries
Ventricular septal defects