Welcome to our milestone 400th episode of PD Heart Pediatric Cardiology Today.

My name is Dr. Robert Pass, and I'm the host of this podcast.

I am professor of pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where I'm the chief of pediatric cardiology and the co-director of the Children's Heart Center.

Thank you for joining me for this 400th episode of PD Heart.

I really can't believe that we've done 400 independent, different episodes of Petey Heart, but as we come up on our ninth anniversary, I'd be lying if I told you that I anticipated this, as I most certainly did not.

Women make up over half of new trainees in our field, and the percentages are changing rapidly.

I am just a single old man, but one doesn't need to be married to understand that the challenges facing my colleagues who are both academic pediatric cardiologists and mothers are gigantic and innumerable.

I thought for this episode we would speak about the paucity of women in leadership roles in our field through the perspective of most of the present-day female pediatric cardiology division chiefs, and then move forward to a panel discussion with women at different stages of their careers in our field who are either now or have balanced work and motherhood and what that takes.

Heart Pediatric Cardiology Today.

My name is Dr. Robert Kass, and I'm the host of this podcast.

I am professor of pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where I'm also the chief of pediatric cardiology.

Thank you for joining me for this 388th episode of PD Heart.

Thank you for having me.

Dr. Kaplinsky is currently clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, and she serves as director of the fetal cardiology program at Stanford Medicine Children's Health.

where her clinical expertise includes fetal cardiology, pediatric echocardiography, and, of course, congenital heart disease.

She received her medical degree from George Washington University, completed pediatric residency at UCSF, and then completed her pediatric cardiology fellowship training at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.