Sara Kate Pasquali, MD

Dr. Pasquali is the Janette Ferrantino Professor of Pediatrics and the Interim Associate Chief Clinical Officer for C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital at the University of Michigan. She has previously served as the Service Chief for the Division of Pediatric Cardiology and the Director of Research and Quality within the Congenital Heart Center.

Dr. Pasquali received her undergraduate degree from University of Michigan and medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine. She completed pediatric residency and pediatric cardiology fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She has a Masters of Health Sciences degree in Clinical Research, and has completed executive leadership training through the ELAM program.

Dr. Pasquali’s work has focused on optimizing pediatric care and outcomes both locally and across the country through research, quality, and policy efforts. She has authored more than 200 publications in this area and her research has been continuously funded by the NIH throughout her career. She is the Co-PI for her center’s participation as one of 9 core sites in NHLBI-funded Pediatric Heart Network, and was a co-founder of Cardiac Networks United which has fostered collaboration spanning more than two thirds of the nation’s congenital heart programs to support novel research and quality efforts that have improved care and outcomes across children’s hospitals. She recently led an initiative that brought together 15 professional societies and 20+ institutions to develop the first multi-disciplinary consensus guidelines for congenital heart surgery in the US. Dr. Pasquali is the immediate past chair of the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions for the Young Hearts Council, and is an active mentor, recently launching a national early career exchange program across congenital heart centers.

 Congenital heart disease, echocardiography

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Dr. Pasquali's research focusses on evaluation of outcomes and quality in children undergoing heart surgery, and is supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.