A Motley Crew, Thinking Differently, Built the Fontan - Dr. Thomas J. Kulik

The History of Treating Congenital Heart Disease: Until the mid-twentieth century virtually every child born with a serious cardiac malformation faced an early death. However, it was the curiosity and speculations of those who came before that laid the foundation upon which modern treatments for heart defects became a reality. Dr. Kulik’s entertaining lecture pays homage to these early visionaries and describes, through entertaining anecdotes and scientific reasoning, one of the greatest surgical achievements of our era, the operative repair of the univentricular heart.