Congenital Heart Disease

BIOGRAPHY

Larry Latson is Attending Physician at the Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation and, in a secondary affiliation, at the Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Omaha Children's Hospital. He is the Medical Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Center for Pediatric & Congenital Heart Disease, Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Professor Latson's research interests revolve primarily around interventional catheterization techniques for treatment of congenital heart disease in patients of all ages, from the fetus to the elderly adult. He is especially interested at present in improving the devices and techniques for intervening in the developing heart of the unborn fetus and in patients with an interatrial communication and CNS symptomatology that could be related to paradoxical emboli. Other areas of active research include catheter treatment of pulmonary vein stenosis and coarctation of the aorta.

He is a Fellow of the AmericanCollege of Cardiology and the American Heart Assosciation (where he also serves on the Councils on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, on Cardiovascular Radiology and on Clinical Cardiology) and the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions. He is a Member of the International Society of Invasive Cardiology, Society of Pediatric Echocardiography amongst others. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Intervention and Annals of Pediatric Cardiology.