Dr. Jeffrey A. Towbin is the Executive Co-Director of the Heart Institute and Professor & Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, as well as Vice Chair of Pediatrics for Strategic Advancement at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. He received his B.S (1974) and M.S in Cell Biology (1977) from the University of Cincinnati, his M.D. degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (1982), and he did his Pediatric Residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital (1982-1985) before moving to Houston to do his Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship and translational research training in Cardiovascular Genetics at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine (1985-1989). He joined the Pediatric Cardiology faculty of Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in July 1989 and was ultimately promoted to the rank of Tenured Professor in 1998, becoming Chief of Pediatric Cardiology from 2003-2009 and elevating the ranking of the program to #3 in US News and World Report. Dr. Towbin relocated back to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 2009 as Executive Co-Director of the Heart Institute and Tenured Professor & Chief of Pediatric Cardiology and built the Heart Institute with recruitment of over 40 faculty and elevating the program to a #5 ranking. He arrived in Memphis in February 2015 to take on his current roles. Within 3 years, the program went from being unranked to being ranked #10.
Dr. Towbin’s expertise is in the clinical and translational arenas of Pediatric Cardiomyopathy, Heart Failure, Heart Transplantation, and causes of arrhythmic sudden death. His current focus is on the genetic and acquired forms and mechanisms responsible for cardiomyopathies with and without heart failure or arrhythmias and cardio-skeletal myopathies. He has also trained and mentored many of the Division Chiefs of Pediatric Cardiology and Chairs of Pediatrics, which is his most cherished accomplishment.
Learning Objectives:
- Define the key genetic targets that cause the clinical features of cardiomyopathies and arrhythmias
- Define the key protein targets that cause the clinical features of cardiomyopathies and arrhythmias
- Determine whether genetics has importance in the care of children and adults with cardiomyopathies and arrhythmias
Speaker:
- Jeffrey A. Towbin, MD, MS
This seminar was delivered as a Pediatric Grand Rounds Lecture at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, on May 15, 2024.
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