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E Kevin Hall, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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Director, Pediatric Heart Transplant Program, Pediatric Cardiology

Director, Pediatric Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Program, Pediatric Cardiology

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Pediatric Cardiology

PO Box 208064

New Haven, CT 06520-8064

United States

About

Titles

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Director, Pediatric Heart Transplant Program, Pediatric Cardiology; Director, Pediatric Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Program, Pediatric Cardiology

Biography

2006 - 2009 Fellowship, Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2009 - 2010 Senior Fellowship, Heart Failure & Transplant, Children's Hospital Boston

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Education & Training

Senior Fellow
Children's Hospital, Boston (2010)
Fellow
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2009)
Resident
Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital (2006)
Intern
Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital (2004)
MD
Trinity College (2003)
MBBCh
Trinity College (2003)

Research

Overview

E. Kevin Hall, M.D. is Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and Medical Director of the Pediatric Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Program at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Hall has had a life-long and active involvement with computers and information technology stretching back to the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A in the mid 1980s. He had an internship with Alliant Computer Systems in 1991/1992 and six systems engineering internships with Silicon Graphics in the later 1990s. He has significant experience with UNIX (both System V and BSD) and Linux dating back to 1991 and 1995 respectively. He is capable in C (C90), Objective-C, Swift, Ruby, Javascript (ES2015), and Clojure. He was publicly cited as a contributor to the Qt GUI framework prior to its acquisition by Nokia in 2008. He was appointed to and served on the Information Systems Steering Committee of the Cardiac Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves on the Yale University Provost’s ITS Advisory Committee (ITSAC)

Dr. Hall’s work has focused on cardiomyopathy in children and adolescents and the effects of these conditions on individuals’ qualities of life. He has been an early participant in mobile health and has a particular focus on using network and mobile technologies to study and better understand these conditions over broad geographies and age ranges. He is the principal investigator of a nationwide clinical study currently enrolling patients from 2 – 80 years of age with or at risk for these heart diseases. He is the programmer behind the Yale Cardiomyopathy Index, the iPhone-based application fronting this work. The Yale Cardiomyopathy Index was the second Apple research application released after the March 2015 announcement of ResearchKit and the first to enroll pediatric participants.

Because of this landmark work, in March of 2016 Dr. Hall was invited for five days to Fuwai Hospital in Beijing, the largest cardiovascular hospital in China, to present his findings and begin mobile health collaborations with their investigators. He is working closely with teams to build and release several large mobile health studies expected later this year.

Dr. Hall is a member of the Leadership and Steering Committee for the International Society of Pediatric Innovation, an organization of leaders in medicine from one hundred pediatric institutions around the world. He leads both the eMedicine and Communications Committees.

Dr. Hall is Principal Investigator on a new industry-sponsored heart failure pharmacologic treatment for children. He is additionally co-investigator on several other trials for cardiomyopathy and heart failure. In addition to his research activity Dr. Hall trained as a pediatric cardiologist and completed his Pediatric Cardiology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He completed his Senior Fellowship in Pediatric Heart Failure and Transplantation at Children’s Hospital Boston. Since his arrival to Yale he has directed the Pediatric Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Program which manages patients with these conditions from three hundred families around Connecticut and bordering states.

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Cardiomyopathies; Computer Communication Networks; Heart Defects, Congenital; Heart Failure; Mobile Applications; Myocarditis; Pediatrics

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of E Kevin Hall's published research.

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Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    Pediatric Technology Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

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    International Society for Pediatric Innovation

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    ACTION Learning Network

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    Project Viva Advisory Board

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    Independent Advisory Board

Clinical Care

Overview

E. Kevin Hall, MBBCh (a medical degree awarded in several countries outside of the U.S.), director of the Yale Medicine Pediatric Heart Failure Program, treats children and young adults with heart failure and/or cardiomyopathies. These are heart muscle conditions that ultimately lead to various types and degrees of heart dysfunction.

Dr. Hall directs a multidisciplinary group of caregivers who strive to improve the symptoms, outcomes, and qualities of life for children when their hearts are unable to beat on their own. The team employs such supportive measures as medicines, mechanical devices, or, when necessary, heart transplantation.

Dr. Hall notes that there have been remarkable advancements in recent years with all forms of treatment. “These advancements lead to improved quality of life and better long-term outcomes for children with these conditions,” he says.

Each child is different, says Dr. Hall, stressing that it is important for doctors to develop highly tailored individual treatment plans as well as a close rapport with children in order to develop trust and maximize the chances of optimal outcomes.

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Pediatric Cardiology

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Pediatric Cardiology

PO Box 208064

New Haven, CT 06520-8064

United States

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