General Info

Yves d'Udekem, M.D., Ph.D., joined Children's National Hospital as Division Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Co-Director of the Children's National Heart Institute in September 2020. Dr. d'Udekem is Belgian-born with Canadian and Australian citizenship and received his early training in Belgium and Toronto. He worked as a cardiac surgeon in Belgium, operating on both adults and children with congenital heart disease. He is committed to working together with our multidisciplinary team, as well as providing excellent patient and family experience throughout a patient's course from outpatient visits to inpatient stay, to the operating room and back again.