We are pleased to announce Sheila J. Carroll, M.D. and Patrick A. Flynn, M.D. have been named Interim Co-Chiefs of Pediatric Cardiology, effective October 1, 2022. Dr. Carroll, who serves as the Director Fetal Cardiology, and Dr. Flynn, who serves as the Director of the Echocardiography Lab, will provide proven leadership and oversight for the Division’s activities, including liaising with Department administration and supporting the Department’s vision and missions in patient care, research, and education as well as quality, diversity, and inclusion.
We are grateful for the excellence and innovation of current chief Dr. Ralf Holzer. Under Dr. Holzer’s leadership from 2017 to 2022, the Division dramatically grew its pediatric cardiac catheterization program, expanded its clinical Pediatric Cardiology practice to Lower Manhattan, strengthened relationships with partner departments and institutions, and achieved the first premature infant transcatheter PDA closure in Manhattan. We wish Dr. Holzer well in his future endeavors.
As Interim Co-Chief, Dr. Sheila Carroll will focus on leading physician recruitment and oversee physician onboarding, academic and clinical productivity. She will oversee quality, safety, equity, and cost‐effective care of our patients, and the educational activities of the Division. Dr. Carroll will direct the inpatient cardiology service and expand services within our affiliate hospitals (NYP Queens and NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital) and will direct and expand the Cardiology program at NYP Lower Manhattan Hospital. As Interim Co-Chief, Dr. Patrick Flynn will focus on operational matters related to clinical volume, outreach, and general clinical functioning of the division, including addressing PO and Department metrics, service to charge entry lags, outreach to referring providers, marketing to improve public awareness, patient access, operating margin and all other aspects of the outpatient cardiology service. He will participate in Department leadership meetings, and support and foster relationships with the Pediatrics subspecialty practices, General Pediatrics practices and inpatient groups including the PICU, NICU, hospitalists, Medicine/Cardiology and partner institutions including Memorial Sloan Kettering and Hospital for Special Surgery.
Dr. Sheila Carroll is associate professor of clinical pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and associate attending pediatrician at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She also directs Fetal Cardiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, working closely with the Divisions of Neonatology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Carroll is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology (F.A.C.C.) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (F.A.A.P.). Dr. Carroll completed her undergraduate studies at Brown University where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Biology and Medieval Studies. She received her medical degree from the State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, returning to Brown University/Hasbro Children’s Hospital to complete her residency training in pediatrics, where she received a Resident Teaching Award. She completed her post-doctoral research fellowship at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons where she developed projects studying the genetics of inherited cardiac disease and completed a clinical fellowship in pediatric cardiology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Carroll is currently a co-investigator developing a fetal echocardiography database at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She has published on a variety of topics ranging from a novel mutation in SCN5A manifesting as a spectrum of phenotypes to the coexistence of cortriatriatum and Tetralogy of Fallot.
Dr. Patrick Flynn is associate professor of clinical pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and associate attending pediatrician at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He also directs the Fetal Echocardiography Lab. Dr. Flynn is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology. He graduated as class valedictorian from Villanova University, receiving the Leonardo da Vinci Award for excellence in science and the humanities. After receiving his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, he completed his residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center (then the New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College), also serving as Chief Resident in Pediatrics, and stayed on to complete a Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology. Dr. Flynn has been active in the teaching of medical students, residents, and fellows throughout his career at Weill Cornell Medicine, serving as Director of the General Pediatrics Residency Program from 1996-2000 and as Clerkship Director of the Pediatrics Sub-Internship from 1996-2008. He has been elected to the Senior List three times and received an Outstanding Teacher Award from the Pediatric Housestaff and the Excellence in Teaching Award from Weill Cornell. In 2016, Dr. Flynn was named NYPH’s Physician of the Year. His service includes General Faculty Council chair at Weill Cornell Medicine, President of the Pediatric Cardiology Society of Greater New York, the Weill Cornell Medicine Admissions Committee, and numerous international humanitarian medical missions aimed at performing and teaching the medical and surgical care of congenital heart disease in the developing world.