Daniel J. Penny, MD, PhD, MHA

Specialty:

Cardiology

Executive Co-Director, Heart Center

Professor and Chief of Pediatric Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine

Lillie Frank Abercrombie Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiology

Phone: 832-824-3278

Languages: English

Departments:

Cardiology
Heart Center

Office location:

Texas Children's Hospital Legacy Tower

6651 Main Street
Houston, TX 77030

Get to know Daniel J. Penny, MD, PhD, MHA

About

As Texas Children's Hospital moves along its journey towards preeminence, it will be essential that developments within the Cardiology section explicitly contribute to this strategic goal. It is the ambition of the Cardiology section to make these contributions through a number of advances. These will be to:

Recruit exceptional people. Texas Children's Hospital has a long tradition of recruiting the best and the brightest. We will continue to make Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine an employer of choice for pediatric cardiologists.

Develop strong and sustainable partnerships with our stake-holders. We believe that our ability to develop strong and sustainable partnerships with our stakeholders is fundamental to the position of exceptional care. We are enhancing our partnerships with professional stakeholders within Houston and beyond. Our partnerships with our children and their parents are fundamental to our care philosophy and we continue to strengthen these.

Achieve superlative and quantifiable outcomes. The Heart Center at Texas Children's Hospital has always prided itself on the superlative outcomes which can be provided for patients with heart disease. We will continue to build on this exceptional performance. Through the use of informational technologies, we will develop new ways of outcome assessment.

Perform practice-altering research. The past decade has witnessed a transformational change in the research directions related to pediatric cardiovascular care. There has been an emphasis on translational research, with rapid translation of laboratory findings into the clinical arena. There has also been a great emphasis on multidiscipline research such that it is now important that a research program considers all aspects of a child's life and that of their family. It is our ambition to lead the way in the area of translation of research and also to the pioneers in the area of multidisciplinary outcome based research.

Provide exceptional education for all physicians and other providers as well as our families. Few cardiology units have educated as many leaders in pediatric cardiology as Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. This educational tradition was developed by Dr. Dan McNamara and we will continue to build on this into the future.

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Education

School	Education	Degree	Year
Monash University	PhD	Doctor of Philosophy	2005
The Royal Children's Hospital	Fellowship	Pediatric Cardiology	1997
The Royal Children's Hospital	Fellowship	Cardiology	1994
Adelaide, Meath & The National Children's Hospital	Residency	Internal Medicine/Pediatrics	1989
National Maternity Hospital	Residency	Internal Medicine/Pediatrics	1989
Saint Luke's General Hospital	Residency	Internal Medicine/Pediatrics	1989
St. James Hospital/Dr. Steevens Hospital	Residency	Internal Medicine/Pediatrics	1989
Federated Dublin Voluntary Hospitals	Internship	Internal Medicine/Pediatrics	1988
Cork University Hospital	Internship	Medical & Surgical	1987
National University of Ireland	Medical School	Doctor of Medicine	1986

Organizations

Organization Name	Role
Pediatric Heart Network	Executive Committee
American Academy of Pediatrics	Fellow
Paediatrics	Editor, May 2011 - May 2016
Texas Heart Institute	Medical Executive Committee
Congenital Heart Disease Advisory Board	Associate Editor

Awards

Dr. Penny is the recipient of the 2014 University College Cork (UCC) Medical School Medal which was created to honor those who have made exceptional contributions to medicine and society.

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