New Leaders Join Miami Children’s Heart Program
Dr. John F. Rhodes, Jr.
, was appointed
Medical Director of Pediatric Cardiology
Service and the Adult Congenital Heart
Program. Dr. Rhodes served previously
as Chief of the Duke Clinical Heart
Program and Duke Children’s Heart
Center in Durham, North Carolina.
He was also Co-Director of the Duke
Adult Congenital Heart Program.
Dr. Rhodes received his medical degree from The Brody School
of Medicine in Greenville, North Carolina and completed his
fellowship in cardiology at The Mount Sinai Medical Center
in New York. He pursued additional training in interventional
catheterization for children and adults at The Cleveland Clinic
Foundation in Cleveland. Dr. Rhodes’ clinical interests involve
diagnostic and interventional catheterization procedures
for children and adults with complex congenital heart
disease. He has helped pioneer several techniques, including
transcatheter atrial septal closure, echocardiographic imaging
to guide catheter interventions, cutting balloon angioplasty
of stenotic branch pulmonary arteries, and pulmonary vein
stent angioplasty for pulmonary vein stenosis following
radiofrequency ablation of atrial fibrillation.
Dr. Gil Wernovsky
was appointed
Medical Director of Patient - and
Family-Center Care within the cardiac
service line. Prior to joining Miami
Children’s, Dr. Wernovsky served as
the Director of Program Development
at the Cardiac Center at The Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia, and the
Associate Chief of the Division of
Pediatric Cardiology. He was also the Medical Director of the
Neurocardiac Care Program, and the former Medical Director
of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Wernovsky received
his medical training at Pennsylvania State University, and
his pediatric training at New York Hospital. He completed
additional training in pediatric cardiology and cardiac
intensive care at Boston Children’s Hospital, and had a faculty
appointment at Harvard Medical School. In Philadelphia,
he was a professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of
Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Wernovsky’s
clinical interests include the intensive care of newborns
with critical congenital heart disease, mechanical support of
the failing circulation, and outpatient follow-up of complex
congenital heart disease. For over 25 years, he has focused
on the long-term functional outcomes following surgery
for complex heart disease, particularly transposition of the
great arteries, and forms of single ventricle defects such as
hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
Trust
Two nationally
known pediatric
cardiology leaders
joined The Heart
Program at Miami
Children’s in 2013.
The new physicians
are pooling their
skills and talents
with the estab-
lished program
leadership, which
was instrumental
in the program’s
establishment as
one of the top
pediatric cardiology
and cardiovascular
surgery programs
in the nation.
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