Paving the Way for Integrated Advanced Heart Failure and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Training

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA; The Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/whmarshv.
² Adult Congenital Heart Program, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Cardiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
³ Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA; Department of Cardiopulmonary Transplantation and the Center for Cardiac Support, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Section of Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁵ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
⁶ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA; The Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
⁷ The Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Editorial

William H Marshall V et al. JACC Adv. 2025 Mar.

. 2025 Mar;4(3):101586.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacadv.2025.101586. Epub 2025 Feb 6.

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA; The Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/whmarshv.
² Adult Congenital Heart Program, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Cardiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
³ Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA; Department of Cardiopulmonary Transplantation and the Center for Cardiac Support, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Section of Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁵ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
⁶ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA; The Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
⁷ The Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: adult congenital heart disease; curricular development; fellow-in-training; heart failure.

Conflict of interest statement

Funding Support and Author Disclosures The authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

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