John Fahey, MD
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Titles
Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and Associate Clinical Professor of Nursing
Director, Pediatric Exercise Laboratory; Co-Director, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program, Pediatric CardiologyBiography
Dr. Fahey is an attending for the Clinic for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD). This is a new and emerging specialty for this complex group of patients. Their problems span both adult and pediatric cardiology and this is a multidisciplinary subspecialty clinic.
Dr. Fahey also directs a very busy Pediatric exercise stress testing laboratory. The laboratory was the first in the state and gets referrals from throughout the region.
Dr. Fahey also is Assistant Director of the Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Training program, one of the first in the country.
Dr. Fahey has been a staff cardiologist since completing his fellowship at Yale in 1985. He served as Interim Director of the Section for 6 years. He has clinics at Yale, as well as Lawrence & Memorial Hospital in New London and an outpatient Cardiology facility in Norwich.
Appointments
Pediatric Cardiology
Professor Phased RetirementPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Adult Congenital Heart Program
- Children’s Heart Center
- Pediatric Cardiology
- Pediatrics
- Yale Medicine
- Yale Ventures
Education & Training
- Fellow
- Yale-New Haven Hospital (1985)
- Intern & Resident
- Johns Hopkins Hospital (1982)
- MD
- New Jersey Medical School (1979)
Research
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Clinical Care
Overview
John T. Fahey, MD, is director of Yale Medicine’s Adult Congenital Heart Program. A cardiologist, he has more than 30 years of experience treating congenital heart disease in children and adults. He tells new patients, “We can usually make your heart function very close to normal.”
Dr. Fahey researches exercise in patients with congenital heart disease. He also studies the abnormal physiology of congenital heart disease, and when and how to best treat it.”
He derives his greatest satisfaction from caring for young patients over time and watching them grow into adults. He is most excited about new catheterization methods that enable a patient with congenital heart disease to avoid surgery. He is a professor of pediatrics (cardiology) and an associate clinical professor of nursing at Yale School of Medicine.
Clinical Specialties
Fact Sheets
Pediatric Congenital Heart Surgery
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Board Certifications
Pediatrics
- Certification Organization
- AB of Pediatrics
- Original Certification Date
- 1984