Heart Center at M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital welcomes new co-director, transplant surgeon
A new pediatric heart surgeon will bring his decades of experience healing hearts to M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital this year.
Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon Pranava Sinha, MD, has been appointed co-director of the Heart Center at M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital. He will join our comprehensive care team in the upcoming months and will begin seeing patients soon after he starts. Sinha is an expert in neonatal and infant heart surgery, repair of congenital heart defects, adult congenital heart disease, pediatric heart transplants, and use of mechanical circulatory assist devices. He will serve in a critical role developing and co-leading a multi-disciplinary team of experts who provide exceptional, family-centered patient care.
Sinha has also been appointed the new division chief and professor of pediatric cardiac surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School. His medical research is focused on pediatric mechanical circulatory assist devices and the management of single ventricle circulation.
“His arrival will dramatically strengthen the pediatric cardiovascular surgery program at the children’s hospital,” said Joseph Neglia, MD, MPH, who is physician-in-chief at M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital and head of the Department of Pediatrics at University of Minnesota Medical School. “He will focus on a team approach to caring for kids. Complex heart surgery on newborns and small children takes an incredible number of smart, dedicated people.”
“It gives me great pride to be part of the University of Minnesota and M Health Fairview because of its very rich history and heritage,” said Sinha. “Every first in cardiac surgery was done there. First and foremost, my aim is to continue Masonic Children’s Hospital’s work to become one of the national leaders in the field of congenital heart disease care. My other goal through the clinical, academic, and research collaboration is to develop exciting research options that will advance the field as a whole.”
As a leader in children’s heart care, M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital is the first choice for second chances. We have the largest pediatric cardiology practice in Minnesota, which means our Heart Center can call upon a deep team of cardiovascular intensivists, care coordinators, cardiologists, and surgeons. We provide compassionate care in a warm and friendly hospital setting designed to help children and families feel comfortable. As part of academic health system, we offer breakthrough treatments and access to new clinical trials at the University of Minnesota that are not available through other health systems.
