Coffee + Cardiology

In this episode we sit down with Karen K. Stout, MD, FACC the founder of our Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) program at the UW Medicine Heart Institute and currently our associate chief of cardiology.   She has helped formalize the ACHD sub-specialty and now is leading our team creating a culture in a rapidly changing work environment.  Her thoughts on all that and much more. 1:12 - History...

In this week's episode we sit down with Nazem Akoum, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FHRS. Dr. Akoum is now the UW Medicine Heart Institute's Electrophysiology Section Chief.   Before he made it to this incredible accomplishment, he was a child that grew up through the Lebanese Civil War and experienced loss of his brother with an aortic dissection from Marfan syndrome.  As the director of our Atria...

In this week's episode we sit down with Christine Chung, MD.  Dr. Chung's early interest in teaching evolved into an academic medicine career that is now helping to teach the next generation of interventional cardiologists.   She is excited to have a procedural focus with so much opportunity for innovation.  As a part of our structural heart team, she will be helping lead the way into it...

In this week's episode we sit down with David T. Linker MD, FACC, FESC, FASE.  Dr. Linker's career has uniquely tied his engineering background with cardiology to help design the future of cardiac diagnostic technologies.  His commitment is to ensure these critical tools are accessible to everyone who needs it.   From speaking 6 languages to building new technologies, the common thread i...

Dr. Jill Steiner, an Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) cardiologist at UW Medicine, sits down this week to talk about what palliative care really means, understanding and supporting resilience for a unique patient population, and how she has created resiliency for herself. Timestamps: 0:30 - Career at a glance 2:40 - All things ACHD  3:54 - Palliative Care and ACHD 4:36 - "I just think it...