Welcome
Founded in 2003, The Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (PCICS) is the leading international professional forum for promoting excellence in pediatric cardiac critical care. Our members are healthcare professionals dedicated to promoting scientific inquiry, acquiring knowledge, and improving practice for our critically ill pediatric patients with congenital and acquired heart disease.
Institutional Members
Featured Institutional Member
Atrium Health
The Congenital Heart Center, established in 2010, has been ranked as one of the top-50 pediatric heart centers in the country by U.S. News and World Report for the last nine years. Our comprehensive services include cardiac imaging, diagnostic and interventional catheterization, invasive electrophysiology, dedicated cardiovascular intensive care staff, and regional referral programs in heart failure/transplantation, adult congenital heart disease, and fetal echocardiography. Surgical and cardiac catheterization volume are growing at a rate of 10-15% per year. Our state-of-the-art two lab cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology suite opened in February of 2017, with dedicated staffing and anesthesia teams. Our new outpatient office complex opened in December 2020, designed to treat all patients from fetal cardiology to ACHD. We have one of the most comprehensive Cardiac Neurodevelopment programs in the Southeast, providing a multitude of specialty services to our congenital heart patients in the same office suite. Participation in investigator-initiated and multi-center industry-sponsored studies is ongoing within the Heart Center, with the support of an active clinical research department.
Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute (SHVI) is one of the Southeast’s largest cardiac and vascular programs. Sanger employs more than 110 physicians in a network of more than 25 locations to provide the highest quality care available to patients with cardiovascular disease throughout North and South Carolina. SHVI has more than 50 years of experience providing world-class, comprehensive acute and chronic cardiovascular services including the region’s only heart transplant center and pediatric/congenital heart surgery program.
Levine Children’s Hospital (LCH) is a state-of-the-art facility in beautiful Charlotte, North Carolina. LCH has 11 floors and 234 inpatient beds, including on-site PICU and CVICU covered 24/7 by in-house intensivists, Progressive Care Unit, Inpatient Observation Unit, Pediatric Rehab Unit, and Pediatric Emergency Department. We are committed to being the region’s leading provider of pediatric health care services.
LCH and SHVI are both premier referral facilities within Atrium Health (AH), one of the nation’s leading and most innovative healthcare systems. AH operates nearly 2,500 system-employed physicians, more than 60,000 employees and more than 7,460 licensed beds across the Carolinas and beyond.
Patient Care Team
Pediatric cardiac intensive care is comprehensive and requires a multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, trainees, respiratory therapists, social workers, physical and occupational therapists, dieticians, and pharmacists. With our special interest groups and committees, we have something for everyone in our field.
Find Your Place in the Field
Whether you’re looking for a fellowship or a job in pediatric cardiac intensive care, our extensive network means we can help you find the best place for you to further your career. Explore our job postings and fellowship training programs to take your career to the next level.





