Congenital Cardiac Surgeon
Nemours Children's Hospital
Orlando, Florida, United States
Dr. Jennifer Nelson is a congenital heart surgeon at Nemours Children's Health in Orlando, FL and Director of Research for Nemours, Central Florida. She is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Nelson's clinical interests include surgery for tetralogy of Fallot, aortic valve disease in children and young adults, and Ebstein anomaly. In addition to publishing on these topics, Dr. Nelson's research focuses on data science, the epigenetics of congenital heart disease, and congenital heart surgery outcomes, particularly utilizing the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) National Databases. Dr. Nelson holds several Professional Society leadership positions and recently served as the Chair of the STS Workforce on the Surgical Treatment of Adults with Congenital Heart Disease. During that time, she led the development of the STS Adult Congenital Heart Disease mortality risk model and the STS ACHD Data Collection Form. She is the former Resident Director to the STS Board of Directors, and she is the current Chair of the STS Congenital Access and Publications Committee and the current Chair of the STS Writing Group composing Multi-Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the indications and timing of pulmonary valve replacement following repair of tetralogy of Fallot. Dr. Nelson served as the congenital program chair for the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association’s 2024 annual meeting.
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Data and Risk Stratification in ACHD: Where Are We Today?
Sunday, January 26, 2025
8:09am – 8:16am PT