The Incubator #081 - [NeoHeart Special] - Dr. Gil Wernovsky MD - Experiences from a life in a pediatric cardiology
Dr. Wernovsky is a senior consultant in pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Critical Care at Children National Hospital, having joined the faculty in 2018. He attended Brandeis University, receiving a BS degree in 1978 in anthropology and music. He attended Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, receiving his M.D. in 1982. He completed a pediatric residency at New York Hospital (now known as Weill Cornell Medical Center) in 1985, and his pediatric cardiology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital in 1988, with a focus on cardiac intensive care. He was appointed the Associate Director of the Cardiac ICU through 1995.
At Children’s National Hospital, he is also a member of the NeuroCardiac Critical Care Team, and is a Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Regarding research, he was a study physician in the landmark Boston Circulatory Arrest Study from 1987-1992, and was the Principal Investigator of the international PRIMACORP study from 2002-2003, at the time the largest multicenter trial in pediatric cardiac intensive care. He has edited six textbooks and 13 periodicals, and has published nearly 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters and reviews. He has an H-index of 91 and his work has been cited over 25,000 times.
He is a founding member of:
- Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (1996)
- International Society of Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support(2009)
- World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery (2010)
- Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Collaborative (2016)
- Congenital Heart Academy (2020) – which presented over 100 webinars free of charge in 2020-2021 during the Coronavirus Pandemic, to over 26,000 attendees in over 115 countries.
He was awarded the prestigious Newburger-Bellinger Award in 2015, for his lifetime contributions to the field of Neurodevelopment in children with heart disease. In 2021, Dr. Wernovsky was awarded the 2021 Maria Serratto Master Educator Award by the Section on Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Find out more about Gil and this episode at: www.the-incubator.org
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