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Welcome, everyone to the Becker's
Healthcare podcast series.

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I'm Ryan Mohammed Becker's Healthcare.
I'm thrilled to have with me today Dr.

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Gold Delani from the Morris
Children's Hospital. Dr.

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So nice to talk with
you today. How are you?

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Thank you for having me. I appreciate
the opportunity to be here.

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Yeah, of course. Whoa, to begin,

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would you mind please introducing
yourself and telling us a bit about your

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background?

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Sure. My name's Gal Dani.

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I'm the chief of pediatric cardiology
at the Morris Children's Hospital in

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Orlando, and we run a statewide, uh,

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cardiac program across the state of
Florida, uh, for, uh, pediatric patients,

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uh, from the womb all the
way up to early adulthood.

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Wonderful. Thank you so much.

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And to begin with the real
podcast questions for today,

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the first thing I want to ask you is
what are the top three biggest issues in

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cardiology today?

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I, I think when you look at, uh,

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cardiac centers across the
country coming off of covid,

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I think staffing still
remains a major, uh,

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challenge for cardiovascular programs,
whether that's nursing, staffing,

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echos, sonographer, staffing,
or physician, uh, staffing. I,

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I think staffing still remains an
issue here in the United States.

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A as you look to build,
uh, cardiac programs, uh,

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up and continue to grow
and expand them, um,

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in geographical regions across
the United States. Uh, number two,

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I think technology plays a
crucial role in cardiology,

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whether that's diagnostic imaging
with echocardiograms, cts,

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or MRIs. I think there's a lot
of innovations, uh, with that.

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I know here at Nemours we're
very excited, uh, to have, uh,

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a fantastic 3D imaging program,
especially, uh, we just added,

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uh, fetal 3D imaging. So for
mothers who are pregnant,

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if their child has
congenital heart disease,

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we can do a full 3D model of that form
of congenital heart disease to be able to

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educate mom prior to, uh, her baby
having a delivery. Uh, with that,

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a and I think the third is the revolution
of genetics in cardiovascular disease.

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Um, a as you look at personalized
medicine and gene therapies,

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I think the future looks very bright
for many forms of cardiovascular disease

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that affect children and young adults.

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Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so
much for that insight. And for you,

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how do you see healthcare
evolving over the next 18 month,

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18 months or so?

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Yeah, I hope as, uh, you know,
hospitals and health systems, uh,

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come out of covid, uh, that staffing
issues, financial issues, uh,

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will settle and, uh, from a
cardiovascular standpoint,

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we can really focus back on our primary
populations of children and adults

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for primary prevention.

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So how can we prevent cardiovascular
disease before it really starts, you know,

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in terms of eating a healthy
diet, avoiding smoking,
watching our cholesterol,

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um, because, uh, one
out of three of us, uh,

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will have some form of cardiovascular
disease that kills us over our lifetime.

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So, um, getting back to, um,

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our nutrition and our
diet and our exercise, I,

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I think is very important for
everyone across the country, uh,

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as you look at your
cardiovascular programs.

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Yeah, I absolutely completely
agree with you, um, for that.

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And before I let you go, doctor,

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the last thing I wanted to ask you
is what are you excited about today?

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And also what is making you nervous,

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whether it's something that you're working
on or something that you're seeing in

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your career field? Anything
pertaining to that?

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Sure. Well, I think, uh, you
know, as we touched on cardio,

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cardiovascular disease,

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the medicine and surgical options for
that continue to advance so rapidly.

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I think it's super exciting when you
look at the innovations that have come up

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over the last few years,

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whether those are devices to close
different forms of cardiovascular disease

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or the way we image or the genetics, uh,

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approach that we take for
personalized cardiovascular care. Um,

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I think all of those hold a lot of promise
for us. I think on the nervous side,

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I think as we get back to,

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as we continue to grow and expand
and build, uh, cardiovascular, uh,

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programs across the country, how
do we ensure we have enough, uh,

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highly trained and skilled, um,
providers and staff members, uh,

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within a heart center? So working
within our universities and our, uh,

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colleges to ensure that we have,
uh, you know, the trainees, uh,

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that we're gonna need for
the next generation, i, I
think are vitally important.

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Perfect. Thank you so much for
spinal thoughts, doctor. Uh,

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this has been an amazing discussion.

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So I wanna thank you again for coming on
Becker's Healthcare and I look forward

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to connecting with you again soon.

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I greatly appreciate the opportunity to
be here, and thank you for inviting me.

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Of course. Have a wonderful week.