- Joseph Billadello, MD, Director
Clinical expertise
Physicians from the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program treat congenital cardiac conditions in patients who have been repaired as children or adolescents, patients with unrepaired defects and newly diagnosed or suspicion of defects that do not present themselves until adulthood. The center of excellence team has experience with all defects from the simplest to the most complex.
The center is completely equipped to provide the highest level of care to this unique population of patients. In addition to typical cardiology care, this includes:
- Adult congenital cardiac catheterization and intervention
- Adult congenital cardiac surgery
- Adult congenital electrophysiology
- Adult congenital cardiac transplantation
- Pulmonary hypertension specialists
- The standards of practice of the center involve a major commitment to excellent clinical care
- Teaching (at all levels) and research
Clinical affiliations
The center is supported by an extensive network of collaborative services, including:
- Cardiothoracic surgery programs in both adult and pediatric cardiac disease
- Electrophysiology and arrhythmia diagnosis/management
- Interventional cardiology
- Cardiothoracic radiology
- High risk obstetrics/gynecology
- Consultative services in Internal Medicine, Surgery and their subspecialties.