Surgical Program

Dr. Michael Ma is the Division Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery with the Betty Irene Moore Children’s Heart Center at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. Dr. Ma’s translational research lab utilizes biomechanical engineering principles to optimize existing and develop de novo surgical and endovascular therapies in the ongoing treatment of complex heart defects. The Stanford Children’s team performed more than 3,000 pediatric heart surgeries from 2017 to 2021, compared to a national average of 1,230.