Pediatrics’ Division of Cardiology Leader Named
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Division Chief Holly Bauser-Heaton, MD, PhD
The Children’s Heart Institute at Children’s Memorial Hermann and McGovern Medical School Department of Pediatrics have named Holly Bauser-Heaton, MD, PhD, the new chief, Pediatric Cardiology and executive co-director of CHI.
“Dr. Bauser-Heaton is a remarkably gifted physician and a visionary innovator in this field. She will be a huge asset to CHI, the Department of Pediatrics, and UTHealth Houston overall,” said Damien LaPar, MD, MSc, professor of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery and holder of the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Distinguished Chair.
Bauser-Heaton will serve as CHI executive co-director alongside Jon Meliones, MD, MS, professor of pediatric cardiac critical care, and LaPar.
Bauser-Heaton joins McGovern from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta/Emory School of Medicine, where she is associate professor of pediatrics, division of cardiology. She also served as faculty member in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering as well as interim director of the Medical Scientist Training Program and associate director of the Heart Center Research and Outcomes.
She joined CHOA in 2016 as a congenital interventional cardiologist and was appointed director of the Pulmonary Artery Reconstruction Program there in 2019. Her research interests include major aortopulmonary collaterals; pulmonary artery rehabilitation and assessment; and valvar growth.
“I want to thank the entire committee for their diligence in this search process with a such a successful outcome,” said Mary Aitken, MD, MPH, chair of the Department of Pediatrics and holder of the Dan L. Duncan Distinguished University Chair in Pediatrics. “Dr. Bauser-Heaton will be an ideal leader for the next phase of the Children’s Heart Institute and McGovern Medical School as they continue to grow.”
Bauser-Heaton earned both her PhD in cellular and integrative physiology and her medical degree from Indiana University. She completed post graduate training in pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, followed by a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University, where she also completed a fellowship in congenital interventional cardiology.
Bauser-Heaton will join McGovern in mid-August.