NEW YORK (Jan. 31, 2024)—Dr. Bernhard Kühn, a leading physician-scientist who specializes in heart regeneration, has been named chief of the Division of Cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital, effective Feb. 1.
In his role as chief, Dr. Kühn will lead a skilled team of physicians and scientists committed to enhancing the division’s clinical care, education, and research programs that aim to improve cardiac health in children. He will also lead the new Pediatric Institute for Heart Regeneration and Therapeutics (I-HRT) which will focus on pediatric myocardial growth and regeneration and the goal of turning research findings into new therapies for cardiac patients.
Dr. Kühn, who was recruited to Weill Cornell Medicine as a professor of pediatrics, will serve as co-director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Children’s Heart Center. The center is a collaboration between NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, and brings together expertise from Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He will also direct a junior faculty research award program that will provide research support for pediatric cardiologists across NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital who are interested in developing new therapies for heart disease in children.
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The Division of Pediatric Cardiology provides expert care for children with heart disease and disorders. Services include diagnostic imaging, interventional cardiology procedures, including balloon angioplasty, stenting of blood vessels and device closure of heart defects, and cardiovascular surgery to correct congenital heart defects and treat conditions such as heart tumors.
Dr. Kühn was recruited from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he held the title of professor of pediatrics, and the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, where he was director of the Pediatric Institute for Heart Regeneration and Therapeutics and associate director of the Richard King Mellon Foundation Institute for Pediatric Research. Together with Dr. Kühn, his longtime collaborator from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Dr. Honghai Liu, will join the faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine to co-direct a joint laboratory program.
