Our Team
Visionary Experts. Global Mission. One Heart at a Time.
Empowering Hearts Globally is driven by a coalition of the world’s leading experts in pediatric and congenital cardiac care, global health, medical education, and health systems design. With decades of experience and deep commitment to health equity, our team is reimagining how care is taught, delivered, and sustained—starting in the places that need it most.
This global alliance of clinician-educators, technology pioneers, and policy strategists is building scalable, high-impact programs that will save lives and reshape the future of pediatric cardiac care worldwide.
Advisory Committee
Wyman W. Lai
Dominique Vervoot
Ericka Perez Albrecht
Paul Barach
Carolina de Campos
Kevin Glover
Babar Hasan
Ruth Heying
Jeffrey P. Jacobs
Kathy Jenkins
R. Krishna Kumar
Sandra Mattos
Colin McMahon
Liz Miller
Kenneth Remy
Fenny Shidhika
Bhuwan Srivastava
Shubhika Srivastava
Sandra Staveski
Bistra Zheleva
Liesl Zuhlke
Anthony Chang
“...the envisioned results fully justify the effort.”
– Sir Magdi Yacoub, Circulation 2007
Establishing Pediatric Cardiovascular Services in the
Developing World: A Wake-up Call