Education Committee Update
The PCICS Education Committee has some exciting new updates to announce. Lillian Su, MD completed her tenure as committee Co-Chair in January of 2022. We thank Lillian for all her incredible…
Read MoreFinance Committee Update
The Finance Committee would like to welcome their newest members, Michael-Alice Moga MD, Josh Blinder MD, and Andrew Smith MD. We are looking forward to their close collaboration and hard…
Read MoreProgram Committee Update
Co-Chairs: Christin Diller and Jason Buckley The Program Committee continues to work on finalizing the program and details for the 2022 annual meeting. Mark your calendars for December 14-18th, 2022…
Read MoreGuest Editorial: The Road to Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care in the Netherlands
The Netherlands, also known as ‘Holland’ with its famous capital Amsterdam, is a small country in Western Europe which fits 231 times in the United States. It is however 12…
Read MoreGuest Editorial: Incremental Innovation in the Medical Education of Pediatric Cardiac Intensivists
Hector Wong, a passionate pioneer of pediatric critical care and a kind mentor to countless physicians including myself, suddenly and unexpectedly passed away at the start of this year1,2. While…
Read MorePCICS Leadership Message
The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts!! -Aristotle And just like that, it’s Spring!!! As I write this and look outside my window at the last vestiges…
Read MoreEditor’s Message
“Editor’s Message: Entrusting Learners“. As we all settle into a phase of the COVID-19 pandemic with less social restrictions, we hold out hope that the pandemic is near its end.…
Read MoreInstitutional Members Feature
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…
Read MoreConnections Committee Update – Winter 2022
Happy new year to all! I am happy to write my first committee update as the new co-chair of the PCICS Connections Committee. Many thanks to David Werho for his…
Read MorePCICS Special Interest Groups
The Society extends its appreciation to Louise Callow, MSN, CPNP and Sandra Staveski, PhD, CPNP-AC for developing the PCICS Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Their dedication to this initiative has resulted…
Read MoreGuest Editorial: Ollie’s Branch – Putting the Heart Back in Healthcare
Ollie was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect (CHD) three days after he was born. For 13 months my husband, Mark, and I fought alongside him until a series of…
Read MoreGuest Editorial: You Made Me Feel Human
“You made me feel human;” a mother once wrote in a letter to me after her daughter’s death. I had been a clinical nurse specialist in the CICU during her…
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