Since that time, the transplant team has performed more than 100 transplants on children from all over the United States. This volume makes Children's the largest pediatric heart transplant center in the Southeast and one of the largest in the nation. Since its inception, the team has been led by Kirk Kanter, M.D. , surgical director and program director, Pediatric Heart Transplant, and professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine and Robert Vincent, M.D. , medical director, Pediatric Heart Transplant, and associate professor of Pediatrics at Emory. The clinical team is comprised of dedicated critical care physicians, cardiologists, nutritionists, psychologists, nurse coordinators, social workers and Child Life Specialists.
Transplantation is a final course of treatment.
Therefore, this staff is augmented by a cardiovascular surgical program that performs more than 750 operations per year and a cardiology program that performs more than 1,000 catheterization procedures per year. All Rights Reserved.