Shaine A. Morris, MD, MPH

10/21/2021

Do you know how clinical trials work? Join us for this webinar with Dr. Hal Dietz, Dr. Shaine Morris, Dr. Peter Byers, and Dr. Xavier Jeunemaitre on October 26 at 7 pm EST to get your questions answered and learn more about common clinical trial terms. https://www.tfaforms.com/4936721

10/18/2021

A video made by the American Society of Human Genetics web education team about our program! with Taylor Beecroft

Delivering Comprehensive Care to Patients and Families with Genetic Heart Disease.The Cardiovascular Genetics team at Texas Children's Hospital includes expe...

12/08/2020

Finally published! First report of a child with Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome having a bladder rupture. Thank you to the family for allowing us to share this.

In this report, we present the case of a 3‐year‐old child with vascular Ehlers‐Danlos syndrome (vEDS) previously known as Ehlers‐Danlos syndrome type IV. After experiencing a minor traumatic injury t...

10/18/2020

Our most recent paper on Loeys-Dietz syndrome. The first case of homozygous SMAD3 variants causing Loeys-Dietz syndrome. Great work first author Dr. Baskin!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajmg.a.61844

09/21/2020

Thanks to Dr. Sherene Shalhub and developing the amazing Vascular EDS Collaborative!

Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (vEDS) is a rare, syndromic, heritable condition with life-threatening complications that include aortic and arterial …

08/04/2020

We are excited to see our paper out in Circulation on changing mortality in congenital heart disease in the United States and persistent racial and ethnic disparities. With my amazing colleagues first author Keila Lopez and senior author Jason L. Salemi with Kristen Sexson Tejtel and Andre Espaillat.

Background: Congenital heart disease (CHD) accounts for approximately 40% of deaths in United States (US) children with birth defects. Previous US data from 1999-2006 demonstrated an overall decrea...

07/10/2020

Hi All! If you are interested in fighting COVID-19 and participating in Houston area vaccine trials, please check out the link below. I signed up!

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06/22/2020

New paper from out group regarding congenital heart disease. Preterm births were increasing, but now are decreasing in CHD!

To examine state-wide population trends in preterm delivery of children with critical congenital heart disease (CHD) over an 18-year period. We hypoth…

06/17/2020

So honored and proud to work in the TCH Heart Center, ranked 1st in the country for the 4th year in a row!

For the fourth year in a row, we are proud to rank as the best place in the country for children in need of pediatric cardiology and heart surgery according to U.S. News & World Report. Seven Texas Children’s subspecialties rank in the top five nationally.

It takes all 16,705 of us to be one of the best and for the 12th consecutive year we are proud to again be named one of the nation’s top pediatric hospitals.

Learn more about our rankings at www.texaschildrens.org/best.

05/15/2020

Amazing new video from the EDS Society providing information about Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Thank you EDS Society for doing this!

Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (vEDS) is a dominantly inherited, genetic connective tissue disorder. vEDS is particularly serious because of the risk for sp...

01/30/2020

Hi All, TCH Heart Center is excited to present it's second "Adulting with Congenital Heart Disease" about the transition from pediatric to adult care!

The conference includes free dinner, valet parking, and giveaways. The agenda includes dinner with an adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) provider and adult survivor (parents can choose from various lesion specific tables), 2 breakout sessions- one with the transition team on the hows and whys of transition and transfer, and new this year (based on parental feedback from the last session), a session on mental health and CHD with Dr. Cutitta, our cardiac psychologist combined with reproductive health/birth control with Dr. Opina, and a Q&A panel with parents whose teens have gone through our program, 2 young adults who have gone through our program and specialists from ACHD, ACHD surgery, heart failure, and Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

Register for this event at
adultingwithchd.eventbrite.com

01/29/2020

New paper coming out!