Sara Kate Pasquali MD, MHS

Dr. Pasquali is the Janette Ferrantino Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital where she serves as the Associate Director of the Congenital Heart Center for Research and Quality. She is also a faculty member at the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan.

She received her undergraduate degree from University of Michigan and medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Pasquali completed pediatric residency and pediatric cardiology fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She also has a Masters of Health Sciences degree from the Duke Clinical Research Training Program.

Dr. Pasquali's research, supported by NHLBI R01 funding, focuses on outcomes and quality assessment in children undergoing heart surgery, and she has authored more than 160 publications in this area. She directs the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4) Data Coordinating Center, as well as the Pediatric Heart Network’s Integrated CARdiac Data and Outcomes (iCARD) Collaborative, and serves on the Leadership Committee of the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young.