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Welcome to the Pediatric Heart Lung Center
The Pediatric Heart Lung Center (PHLC) is a research and clinical care program focused on developing innovative approaches towards the investigation and treatment of severe cardiac and pulmonary disorders in children. The overall purpose is to establish a multidisciplinary program to stimulate new understanding and novel strategies for the treatment of childhood cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. The approach is to foster the integration of basic and clinical sciences, as well as the development of multidisciplinary approaches to these diseases, by integrating key personnel from different Sections within the Department of Pediatrics, including Pulmonary Medicine, Cardiology, Neonatology and Critical Care.
The rationale for the program is that 1) current treatments of many life-threatening cardiovascular pulmonary diseases are limited by a lack of insight into the fundamental pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying these disorders; 2) insufficient dialogue between scientists involved with basic laboratory research and physicians primarily involved in patient care and clinical research limits the bedside applications of new therapies and impedes the design of clinically relevant bench research; 3) traditional clinical training within each discipline is generally too narrow in scope to help improve treatments of complex cardiopulmonary disorders; and 4) multidisciplinary approaches will lead to greater advances in the study and management of childhood cardiopulmonary diseases. As a result, the PHLC's approach is to improve the clinical care and outcomes of children with diverse cardiopulmonary diseases by promoting:
- improvements in current clinical care
- basic and clinical research
- multidisciplinary training for students, residents and fellows
- novel educational approaches to cardiovascular and pulmonary disorders
- initiation of new and creative research approaches and programs
- development of new clinical approaches to cardiopulmonary disease
By supporting programs that link bench research with bedside clinical care and clinical investigation, the PHLC provides an environment that promotes more rapid clinical application of "cutting-edge" technologies.
Further information is available by visiting the Pediatric Heart Lung Center at The Children's Hospital website.
Contact Information
Please direct your questions or requests for additional
information about the Pediatric Heart Lung Center to:
Robin Mascotti
Pediatric Heart Lung Center
The Children's Hospital
13123 East 16th Avenue, B395
Aurora, Colorado 80045
Tel: 720-777-5821
E-mail: mascotti.robin@tchden.org
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