Mission
The Pediatric Heart Transplant Society is a multidisciplinary, professional, and collaborative organization dedicated to advancing the science and treatment of children through the journey of heart transplantation.
Purposes
- Maintaining an international, prospective, event driven, quality improvement registry for pediatric heart transplantation
- Promoting collaboration among professionals in the field of pediatric heart transplantation
- Encouraging and stimulating basic and clinical research in the field of pediatric heart transplantation
- Promoting new therapeutic strategies
- Providing educational resources for patients and families
- Holding bi-annual meetings featuring presentations and discussions relevant to pediatric heart transplantation
- Developing best practices and procedures for caring for children after heart transplant
- Awarding research grants for the study of pediatric heart transplantation
- Making available limited datasets for approved research projects
- Increasing awareness of pediatric heart transplantation
- Providing annual quality assurance reports and benchmarking for participating hospitals
