PCICU attending; Director, Pediatric MCS, Pulmonary hypertension; heart failure attending
Advocate Children's Heart Institute/University of Chicago Comer Children's
Dr. Kristen Nelson McMillan completed her medical school at LSU, followed by pediatric residency and chief residency at LSU. She then completed pediatric critical care fellowship training at Johns Hopkins. She was the inaugural Director of the Pediatric Cardiac ICU and Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device Program at Johns Hopkins from 2012-2019. In 2019, she was recruited to help build a VAD and transplant program in Illinois. She is now the Medical Director of Advanced Pediatric Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension and VAD programs at Advocate Children's Heart Institute and The University of Chicago. Her research interests include anticoagulation of complex cardiac patients and evaluation of pulmonary hypertension regimens in pediatric cardiac patients.