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Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute welcomes congenital heart disease expert
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Evan Zahn, MD, an expert in congenital heart diseases, has joined Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute as director of pediatric cardiology and director of the Congenital Heart Disease Program with the goal of advancing the study of congenital heart disease and developing additional minimally invasive treatments.
In his new role, Zahn will continue to diagnose and treat children born with heart defects such as hypoplastic left heart syndrome and tetralogy of Fallot. He will also establish a program aimed at treating adult patients with congenital heart issues, according to a press release.
Evan Zahn
Zahn is recognized internationally as an authority on minimally invasive techniques to repair structural disorders. Before joining Cedars-Sinai, Zahn served as chief of cardiology at Miami Children’s Hospital, where he also directed the hospital’s interventional catheterization program and performed the world’s first nonsurgical tricuspid valve replacement via catheter on a 9-year-old boy, according to the release.
“Cedars-Sinai is the nation’s leader in minimally invasive heart valve therapy and we can now bring that level of care and expertise to children and young adults born with structural heart disease,” Zahn stated in the release.