With a team of more than 500 individual experts, including 12 cardiac surgeons and more than 80 cardiologists, the Boston Children’s Benderson Family Heart Center is the largest pediatric heart program in the country. We offer nearly 30 sub-specialty programs, encompassing all types of congenital heart disease. Some of our programs are so specialized they are not offered anywhere else. Each year, we see more children with rare diseases and genetic syndromes than any other institution in the world.
We’re also home to the largest pediatric catheterization program in the country, performing more than 1,500 procedures every year. In many cases, we’re able to use interventional catheterization techniques in place of surgical procedures to treat conditions that would typically require open-heart surgery at other institutions.
This size allows us to offer customized care, in more specialties, for every patient.
- Our team members have extensive training not only in pediatric cardiology, but also in treating all types of congenital heart disease.
- Our experts have developed one of the nation's top programs for adults with congenital heart conditions.
- Our doctors and nurses are pioneers in life-saving fetal cardiac interventions.
- We serve as a resource for all patients with congenital heart defects.
