Recap of the 2026 Da Silva Center for Ebstein’s Anomaly Symposium

The Heart Institute at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh hosted the Sixth Annual Da Silva Center for Ebstein’s Anomaly Symposium in June 2026. 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 291 participants from 54 countries across six continents to this year’s event.

Throughout this educational event, our team presented comprehensive lectures on Ebstein’s anomaly, Ebstein’s heart imaging, fetal diagnosis to Cone repair, Ebstein’s imaging follow-up, and patient care from childhood through adulthood.

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

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

Session I: Ebstein’s Heart Imaging

Moderator: Jacqueline Kreutzer, MD

Ebstein’s Heart Imaging – Focus on Valve and Right Ventricle
Presented by: Shi-Joon Yoo, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Session II: Fetal Diagnosis to Cone Repair

Moderator: Jacqueline Weinberg, MD

Fetal Echocardiogram on Ebstein’s Anomaly: Critical Signs
Presented by: Jacqueline Weinberg, MD

Neonatal Ebstein’s Anomaly: Intensive Care Management
Presented by: Joan Sanchez De Toledo, MD

Starnes Procedure: Paving the Way for the Cone Repair
Presented by: Luciana Da Fonseca Da Silva, MD

Echo and MRI: Preoperative Evaluation for the Cone Repair After Starnes
Presented by: Laura Olivieri, MD

The Importance of Heart Catheterization Pre-Cone
Presented by: Jacqueline Kreutzer, MD

Session III: Ebstein Imaging Follow-Up

Moderator: Laura Olivieri, MD

Echocardiographic Outcomes
Presented by: Elizabeth Lanford, MD

Cardiac MRI on Cone Repair Follow-Up
Presented by: Adam Christopher, MD

Case Presentation: The RV Remodeling after Starnes-Fontan Take-Down
Presented by: Jose Pedro da Silva, MD

Session IV: From Childhood to Adult Age

Moderator: Luciana Da Fonseca Da Silva, MD

Reflections on the AATS 2025 Consensus on Children and Adults with Ebstein’s Anomaly
Presented by: Igor Konstantinov, MD

EP Study and Intervention: How young is too Young?
Presented by: Gaurav Arora, MD

Evaluation of Adult Patients with Ebstein’s Anomaly
Presented by: Anita Saraf, MD

The Contemporary Cone Repair Results and Research in Pittsburgh
Presented by: Jose Pedro da Silva, MD