Video The Field of Congenital and Acquired Heart Conditions At Comer Children's Hospital Play Pause Volume Quality 540P 270P Fullscreen Captions Transcript Chapters Slides The Field of Congenital and Acquired Heart Conditions At Comer Children's Hospital Overview Dr. Paula E. Williams, MD, MS, discusses her field at Comer Children's Hospital. PAULA WILLIAMS: I'm Paula Williams with pediatric cardiology at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital. I specialize in noninvasive imaging and fetal echocardiography. Our team at the University of Chicago Medicine consists of several cardiologists, a cardiac surgeon, and nurses and social workers who help us provide the best patient care. What is unique about our team at the University of Chicago Medicine is that we provide a team approach, and we treat the whole patient, not just the baby's heart or child's heart. And we have several specialty clinics such as Marfan disease and inherited cardiomyopathies, and our fetal echocardiography program is quite advanced. And we can offer all of those services to our patients. For our research efforts in pediatric cardiology we partner with other specialties like hematology/oncology, and with critical care to provide any cardiac support for their research efforts in addition to our own research efforts in our department. What's really exciting in the section of pediatric cardiology is the growth of our fetal echocardiography program. It's important to catch these heart lesions in utero and make a plan and get the family comfortable with the University of Chicago Medicine in our hospitals in our team and provide the best care for that infant before it's born. Referring physicians should consider pediatric cardiology at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital because we include the referring physician in our treatment plan and communication is of the most importance as we provide the best care that we can for their children with congenital heart defects. Published May 8, 2014 Created by
