Rate My Professor Ginnie Abarbanell

Ginnie L. Abarbanell, MD, serves as Professor/Clinical and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition, Food and Agriculture from Cornell University in 1996 and her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Washington in 2000. Dr. Abarbanell completed her internship and residency in Pediatrics at Loma Linda University in 2003, followed by a Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Michigan Health System, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, in 2006. She further enhanced her leadership skills through postgraduate programs at Washington University School of Medicine, including the Academic Medical Leadership Program for Physicians and Scientists in 2020, the Teaching Scholar Program in 2019, and Leadership Development Training in 2018.

Dr. Abarbanell's distinguished career spans multiple leading institutions. Since 2020, she has been Professor at UT Health San Antonio. Previously, from 2017 to 2020, she was Associate Professor of Pediatrics Cardiology at Washington University in St. Louis and Co-director of the Pediatric Echocardiography Laboratory at St. Louis Children's Hospital. From 2013 to 2017, she held an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Pediatrics, Cardiology, at Emory University School of Medicine, affiliated with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Sibley Heart Center. Earlier, from 2006 to 2013, she practiced as a Clinical Pediatric Cardiologist and Director of Pediatric Echocardiography at the Children's Heart Center, Peyton Manning Children's Hospital, St. Vincent Hospital, in Indianapolis. Her research specializations include public health research with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, clinical research in echocardiography and cardio-neurodevelopment, quality improvement, and fetal cardiology. Notable publications comprise "Exercise assessment in infants after cardiac transplantation" (Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2004), "Safety of contraceptive use among women with congenital heart disease: A systematic review" (Congenital Heart Disease, 2019), "Echocardiographic Predictors of Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction following Repair of Atrioventricular Septal Defect" (Congenital Heart Disease, 2016), and "Databases for Congenital Heart Defect Public Health Studies Across the Lifespan" (Journal of the American Heart Association, 2016). Dr. Abarbanell holds leadership roles such as Treasurer and Steering Committee member of the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Collaborative, member of the Congenital Heart Public Health Consortium working group on cognitive, neurodevelopmental, and psychosocial quality of life, and past involvement with CDC's CH STRONG initiative. She has presented public lectures on congenital heart disease and cardiac evaluation in pediatric patients at Emory University.