Dr. Thomas Forbes, a pediatric cardiologist and the chief of pediatric cardiology at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, has a master plan for making Memorial Healthcare System an epicenter for data that aids in the development of cardiac equipment and devices.
“In collaboration with the nonprofit CCISC (Congenital Cardiovascular Interventional Study Consortium), we’d build modular registries that would cover nearly all of the procedures performed here,” said Dr. Forbes, who was previously at Detroit Medical Center in Michigan. “Our goal in working with the FDA and Japanese regulatory organizations is to get pediatric devices more quickly approved, so manufacturers would be able to go through the registries we’ve set up to access clinical trial data. Registries that, for the first time, would enable them to utilize retrospective data for a more efficient and cost-effective process.”
Dr. Forbes says fetal, pediatric, and adult cardiology would all benefit from the global initiative.
