{"id":43639,"date":"2026-03-28T09:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=43639"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:48:45","slug":"happy-heart-festival-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2026\/03\/28\/happy-heart-festival-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Heart Festival Update: The Lifetime Management of Congenital Heart Disease Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great news! The video playback from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2026\/02\/28\/happy-heart-festival\/\">Happy Heart Festival<\/a> about the lifetime management of congenital heart disease was just posted. So you know, I was very fortunate to moderate this educational session with a remarkable panel from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedars-sinai.org\/programs\/pediatrics.html\">The Guerin Family Congenital Heart Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center<\/a> including Dr. Jay Pruetz (fetal cardiology),\u00a0Dr. Melita Viegas (pediatric cardiac surgery),\u00a0Dr. Stephen Nageotte (pediatric interventional cardiology), and\u00a0Dr. Prashanth Venkatesh (adult congenital cardiology).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uNLB4vzuo1k?si=QUzjDZzaK1D8XdLB\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Listening to these experts share insights about how Cedars-Sinai supports patients from diagnosis through adulthood \u2014 across\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedars-sinai.org\/programs\/pediatrics.html\">Guerin Children\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/hospital\/cedars-sinai-heart-institute\">Smidt Heart Institute<\/a> \u2014 was truly eye-opening. The conversation reinforced how rapidly congenital heart care is evolving and how coordinated, lifelong management is transforming outcomes for patients and families.<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedars-sinai.org\/programs\/pediatrics.html\">Learn About The Guerin Family Congenital Heart Program at Cedars-Sinai<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/videos\/lifetime-management-congenital-pulmonary-webinar\">Patient Webinar: Lifetime Management of Congenital Pulmonary Valve Disease<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2026\/02\/28\/happy-heart-festival\/\">Happy Heart Festival: A Day of Hope and Joy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-before-surgery"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43653,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43639\/revisions\/43653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}