Recap of the 2025 Da Silva Center for Ebstein’s Anomaly Symposium

The Heart Institute at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh hosted the Fifth Annual Da Silva Center for Ebstein’s Anomaly Symposium in April 2025. This year’s symposium brought together world-renowned pediatric and adult cardiologists and cardiac surgeons to discuss treatment and management of Ebstein’s anomaly, a rare congenital heart defect. We are proud to have welcomed more than 360 participants from 62 countries across six continents to this year’s event.

Throughout this educational event, our team presented comprehensive lectures on Ebstein’s anomaly, the utilization of advanced diagnostic imaging, the Cone repair after Starnes procedure surgical technique, and our program’s approach to patient care for both children and adults.

Below are the presentations from the Fifth Annual Da Silva Center for Ebstein’s Anomaly Symposium.

For more information, or to refer a patient, please email dasilvacenter@chp.edu.

Session I: Morphology and Anomaly Review

Moderator: Jacqueline Kreutzer, MD

• Morphology
  • Presented by: Professor Bob Anderson, MD

Session II: Starnes to Cone Repair

Moderator: Tarek Alsaied, MD

• Fetal Echocardiogram in Ebstein’s Anomaly: Critical Signs and Delivering Planning
  • Presented by: Jacqueline Weinberg, MD

• AATS Expert Consensus on Management of Neonatal Ebstein’s
  • Presented by: Igor Konstantinov, MD

• Imaging after Starnes Procedure Preparing for the Cone
  • Presented by: Tarek Alsaied, MD

• Contribution of the Heart Catheterization in the Decision Making after Starnes
  • Presented by: Jacqueline Kreutzer, MD

• Case Presentation and Discussion
  • Presented by: Carley Bright, DO

• Staged Treatment of Ebstein’s Anomaly – Our Cone after Starnes Results
  • Presented by: Ashraf Faaz, MD

• Patient Video

Session III: Case Discussion and Surgical Technique Session

Moderator: Tarek Alsaied, MD

• Cone After Starnes
  • Presented by: Luciana Da Fonseca Da Silva, MD

• Cone After Fontan
  • Presented by: José Pedro Da Silva, MD

• Case Discussion

• Patient Video

Session IV: Children and Adults: Our Ebstein’s Anomaly Program Approach

Moderator: Jacqueline Kreutzer, MD

• Our Program at UPMC: National and International Patient Management
  • Presented by: Katie Scollon, PA-C & Erin Colvin, CRNP

• Anesthesia for Ebstein’s Anomaly Patients in the Intervention Lab, MRI, and OR
  • Presented by: Khoa Nguyen, MD

• Adult Patients Management
  • Presented by: Arvind Hoskoppal, MD

• Our Global Results with the Da Silva Cone Repair
  • Presented by: Luciana Da Fonseca Da Silva, MD

• Closing Remarks and Patient Video