Transitioning Congenital Cardiac Patients and their Families from Paediatric to Adult Services
Channel: Children's Healthcare Canada
Date: 2013-03-20

This presentation will describe the changing demographics of congenital heart diseases over the last decades to describe the growing adult congenital heart disease population. Paediatric cardiologists are now facing the challenge of transitioning their former paediatric patients to adult congenital heart programs. Different models have been experimented with throughout the world and will be described in the presentation. The presentation will emphasize the Canadian experience and more specifically on Quebec city experience.

Presenters

Philippe Chetaille, MD, Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiologist, Director, Adult Congenital Heart Defect Clinic, Centre Mère Enfant, CHU de Québec and Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et Pneumologie de Québec, Quebec City, Associate Professor, Laval University, Quebec City

Dr Philippe Chetaille is a pediatric cardiologist who trained in both pediatric and adult congenital cardiology. He did his training in France and Fellowship at Boston Children Hospital. He joined the Quebec city Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Department staff 8 years ago and has a mixed practice, pediatric and adult. He is director of the Adult Congenital Heart Defect Clinic in Quebec city.