Francisca Kwakye left Ghana as a young child to receive life-changing treatment for sickle cell disease. Now cured, her dream is to improve health care access for others.
In a first-of-its-kind “domino” transplant in infants, our cardiac surgeons performed a heart transplant in one baby, and then transplanted valves from her old heart into another infant.
Physician-scientist Teresa Lee, MD, MS uses her training in pediatrics, pediatric cardiology, and clinical genetics to understand the genetic causes of infantile cardiomyopathy.