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Happy Heart Festival
A Program of the Edwards Lifesciences Foundation and Camp del Corazon

Thank you to our guests, speakers, experts, sponsors, community partners, and our heart community for an incredible Happy Heart Festival 2025!

2025 Speaker Presentations​

If you weren't able to join us live, you can check out the main presentations from the day by clicking on the talk titles!

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Darren Berman, MD​

Pediatric Cardiologist​, CHLA​

Advancements for Stents in Children

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John David Cleveland, MD​

Cardiothoracic Surgeon, CHLA​

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: Past, Present and Future

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Priyanka Doshi, PsyD​

Clinical Psychologist, CHLA​

Mental Health Resources for Children with Heart Disease

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Henri Justino, MD​

Director of Cardiovascular Innovation​, Rady​

Transcatheter Valve Therapies - link coming soon

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José Silva Sepúlveda, MD​

Pediatric Cardiologist​, Rady​

12 Steps to Help Your Child Transition

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Dariana Velasco, MSW

Patient and Social Worker

My HLHS Journey

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Alexander Tan, PhD, ABPP-CN​

Pediatric Neuropsychologist​, CHOC

What Parents Need to Know About Cardiac Neurodevelopment

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Ask the Experts Fair​​​​

We had an incredible roundtable-style mini conference with our experts!

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Our experts discussed a variety of health and wellness topics simultaneously at different tables, allowing guests to freely choose which discussions they wanted to join at any time during the session

to get the information they wanted!

Topics & Experts

Camp 101

Aurora Alverez​

Betsy Bohuslavsky​

Kathleen Cooney

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Cardiac Neurodevelopment

Alexander Tan, PhD, ABPP-CN​​

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Electrophysiology

Claire A. Newlon, MD​​​​​

 

Exercise & CHD

Micheal Kuhn, MD​​​

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Heart Transplants

Debbie Dechant, RN

Molly Weisert, MD

Angie Paz Ruiz​​

Nutrition & CHD

Stephanie Abeysundara, MS, RD, CSP

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Pulmonary Hypertension

Nancy Halnon, MD

Ai Jin Lee, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, CCRN

Steve Van Wormer

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Single Ventricle

José Silva Sepúlveda, MD​

Alyssa C. B. Seymour, BSN, RN, CCRN

Dariana Velasco, MSW

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Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care
Nicole Antonville, RN, MSN

Roslyn Rivera, RN, BSN, CPN

Katrina Whalen, MSN, ACNP-BC

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Valve Replacements

Kacie Borrowman​​​

Britta Schort

Thank you to our 2025 Sponsors!

About Edwards Lifesciences: Edwards Lifesciences is a global leader in patient-focused innovations treating heart valve disease. Edwards is a longtime supporter of Camp del Corazon.

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