Meet the Team
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
- Chris Carter, MD
- Kirsten B. Dummer, MD
- David B. Gremmels, MD
- B. Kelly Gleason Han, MD
- Rodrigo Rios, MD
- Thomas M. Sutton, MD, FACC, FAAP
- Gregory B. Wright, MD, FACC, FAAP
Pediatric cardiovascular surgeons
ECMO consulting physicians
Other providers
Other teams involved with the cardiovascular program
- 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
