ACHA Webinar: The Adult Fontan Patient
ACHA Webinars Presents:
The Adult Fontan Patient
May 25, 7-8pm ET
Presenter: Michael McConnell, MD
Sibley Heart Center
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
About the Webinar
Are you an adult living with Fontan? If so, attend this webinar to hear Dr. McConnell discuss the challenges of living with Fontan and how to best optimize your long-term health. Long-term complications of the Fontan circulation will be described.
About the Speaker
Michael McConnell, MD, is a pediatric cardiologist practicing in Atlanta, Georgia with the Sibley Heart Center Cardiology. He also has an appointment at Emory University School of Medicine, and sees adult patients at Emory. He has been a practicing cardiologist for over 25 years, and has seen patients with congenital heart disease from birth to old age. He is the author of over 30 peer reviewed publications on cardiology, and is also the author of a textbook on auscultation.
About the Adult Congenital Heart Association
The Adult Congenital Heart Association (ACHA) is a nonprofit organization, which seeks to improve the quality of life and extend the lives of congenital heart defect survivors. Through education, outreach, advocacy and the promotion of research, ACHA serves and supports more than 1.8 million individuals with congenital heart defects, their families, and the medical community. If you would like to find out more about our programming, please click here to visit our website. To support ACHA's mission to improve and prolong the lives of heart defect survivors through a donation, click here.
