Congenital Heart and Pediatric Electrophysiology
Kansas City, Missouri
Dr. Philip Chang is Director of the Pediatric and Congenital Heart Electrophysiology Program at the Ward Family Heart Center, Children’s Mercy Kansas City and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Medicine. He was previously the Director of the Pediatric and Congenital Heart Electrophysiology at the University of Florida Congenital Heart Center and Shands Children’s Hospital in Gainesville, Florida. Prior to joining the faculty at UF/Shands in 2017, Dr. Chang was on faculty at University of Southern California and the Keck School of Medicine where he served as Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Care Program and practiced both pediatric and adult electrophysiology.
Dr. Chang’s current clinical and research interests include complex ablation of arrhythmias in pediatric and adult congenital heart disease patients, novel implantation techniques and technologies in cardiac implantable devices, cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with congenital heart disease, complex lead extraction, and strategies for risk stratification of sudden death in patients with congenital heart disease. Dr. Chang is a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society and the American College of Cardiology and board certified in pediatric cardiology (ABP) and adult congenital heart disease (ABIM).