Akron Adult Congenital Heart Service

Director's Description

We offer a unique program of continuous expert life-long congenital cardiac care to our patients, from fetus through childhood into adulthood.

Our patient-focused team members include Dr. John Lane; adult, pediatric and ACHD boarded cardiologist; Dr. Ashish Saini, adult congenital and pediatric boarded cardiologist, Deena Barber, BSN RN, a dedicated ACHD Nurse Program Coordinator with over 19 years of ACHD experience, Kristen Breedlove, PA-C, Fran Feesler, FNP, and Andrea Lever, LSW. The ACHD team includes a full complement of specialists committed to caring for our ACHD patients and their complex and challenging needs.

Patients are cared for at Akron Children's Hospital for outpatient visits, cardiac testing and catheter-based procedures. Patients are cared for at our affiliated ACHD program at The Cleveland Clinic for surgery and some catheter-based procedures. Once discharged our patients return to Akron Children's Heart Center for continued outpatient follow-up.

Our ACHD team is committed to seamless care for our patients transitioning from pediatric to adult congenital care. We are dedicated to providing state of the art adult congenital care for our patients throughout the lifespan.