Brooke Desmond

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Mariah Corcoran

A Career Switch Allows Social Worker to Make a Difference at Children’s Cardiology

She didn’t know it at the time, but Mariah Corcoran began her social work career as an Army brat growing up on military bases in Europe and the United States. Now a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at Children’s Healthcare of…

Brooke Desmond
March 21, 2023
Little Girl Putting Cucumber Slices On Her Face

8 Ways Nutrition Can Help Prevent Heart Disease

There may be some confusion when we discuss ways to prevent heart disease through nutrition. We believe we have to eat perfectly, but what really matters is paying attention and working on adding the better choices in, so the not-so-great…

Brooke Desmond
March 1, 2023

Benjamin Doesn’t Let Living with Half a Heart Stop Him from Living

When Renee and Jonathan found at 20 weeks pregnant that there was something wrong with their baby’s heart, they knew the pregnancy and the life of their third child was going to be very different. That was when he was…

Brooke Desmond
December 28, 2022
Susi Hupp, MD

Dr. Susi Hupp shares an FAQ about the Children’s Heart Center experience

Susi Hupp, MD, a Cardiac Intensivist and Critical Care Medicine Physician at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Heart Center discusses below what it’s like to work at the hospital. Dr. Hupp splits her clinical time between the Cardiac Intensive Care…

Brooke Desmond
December 14, 2022

The Care at Children’s is a Homerun for Reece’s Family

How do you break it to an active, healthy 7-year-old that he needs open heart surgery? And how do you tell him that his beloved baseball season will be cut short because of it? This was the dilemma facing Lauren…

Brooke Desmond
November 30, 2022

Physicians with Heart: Dr. Sanghee Ro

Although Sanghee Ro, MD, joined Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Cardiology at an unusual time – it was in the thick of COVID-19 – she was eager to put her extensive training into practice in the up-and-coming field of fetal cardiology.…

Brooke Desmond
November 9, 2022
Child Having ECHO

Pediatric ECHOs and EKGs Reveal Information About the Heart

Two of the tools pediatric cardiologists have when they want to gather more information about a child’s heart include the echocardiogram (ECHO) and the electrocardiogram (EKG). Both are noninvasive, painless and quick ways to learn about the heart’s structure and…

Brooke Desmond
October 19, 2022

Sibley Heart Center Cardiology is Now Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Cardiology

We are pleased to announce Sibley Heart Center Cardiology will be renamed Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Cardiology in October 2022. Why is the Sibley Heart Center Cardiology name changing? This aims to further align the outpatient cardiology clinics under the…

Brooke Desmond
October 4, 2022

My Child has CHD – What happens now?

So you’ve learned that your child has a congenital heart defect (CHD). Their diagnosis may feel overwhelming. You may feel like the world has gone sideways. “My first reaction was to pick my baby up and run out the door;…

Brooke Desmond
September 21, 2022

Pediatric Cardiologist Answers Your Questions About Cardiomyopathy

Robert Whitehill, MD, a pediatric cardiologist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Cardiology (formerly Sibley Heart Center Cardiology), answers some common questions about cardiomyopathy, a rare but dangerous disease of the heart muscle that affects approximately one out of 100,000 children…

Brooke Desmond
September 7, 2022
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