Heart Transplant Program | Meet Our Team | Boston Children's Hospital

Elizabeth Blume, MD

Director, Advanced Cardiac Therapies; Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program; Medical Director, Heart Failure Program, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Surgical Director, Ventricular Assist Device Program; Surgical Director, Lung Transplant Program; Surgical Director, Heart Transplant Program; Associate in Cardiac Surgery; Co-Director, Center for Airway Disorders, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Christopher W. Baird, MD

Assistant in Cardiac Surgery; Director, Congenital Heart Valve Program, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Pedro J. del Nido, MD

Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, William E. Ladd Professor of Child Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Sitaram Emani, MD

Associate in Cardiac Surgery; Surgical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Program; Director, Complex Biventricular Repair Program; Surgical Director, Division of Cardiovascular Critical Care, Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

John Mayer, Jr., MD

Senior Associate, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Luis Guillermo Quinonez, MD, FRCS(C)

Assistant, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Instructor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Kevin P. Daly, MD

Attending in Cardiology, Heart Failure and Transplant Service, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Tajinder (TP) Singh, MD, MSc

Associate in Cardiology, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Leslie Smoot, MD

Assistant in Cardiology, Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Christina J. VanderPluym, MD

Medical Director, Ventricular Assist Device Program; Medical Director, Cardiac Antithrombosis Management and Monitoring Program (CAMP), Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Heather Bastardi, RN, MSN, CPNP

Heart Failure/Heart Transplant Coordinator,

Simone Urbach, MSN, RN, CPNP

Heart Transplant Coordinator,

Amy Hellinger, PharmD, BCPS

Pharmacist,

Erin Connelly, CCLS

Child Life Specialist,

Kate Huyler, MS, CCLS

Child Life Specialist,

Emily Springer,

Certified Child Life Specialist,

Kristine McKenna, PhD

Attending Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry; Associate in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Michelle Corf, MSW, LICSW

Clinical Social Worker,

Angela Perry,

Financial Coordinator,

Sandra Burchett, MD, MSc

Senior Associate Physician in Medicine; Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases; Director, Children's Hospital AIDS Program (CHAPS); Director, Immunocompromised Host Service, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Courtney Gidengil, MD, MPH

Associate Physician in Medicine, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics - Part time, Harvard Medical School

Julia R. Koehler, MD

Associate Physician in Medicine, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Catherine Lachenauer, MD

Associate Physician in Medicine; Director, Infectious Diseases Outpatient Practice, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Grace M. Lee, MD, MPH

Associate Medical Director, Infection Control; Senior Associate Physician in Medicine; Director, Center for Healthcare Research in Pediatrics, Associate Professor of Population Medicine and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Ofer Levy, MD, PhD

Director, Precision Vaccines Program; Senior Associate Physician in Medicine, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Kristin Moffitt, MD

Associate Physician in Medicine, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Tanvi S. Sharma, MD, MPH

Associate Physician in Medicine; Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program; Co-Director of Infectious Diseases, Pediatric Transplant Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School