I’m Aware That I’m Rare: Ryan D. Coleman, MD (340)

The phaware® interview

Ryan D. Coleman, MD specializes in pediatric critical care and pulmonary hypertension at Texas Children’s Hospital. Dr. Coleman is also the medical director of the Right Ventricular Failure Program. In this episode, Dr. Coleman discusses how #pulmonaryhypertension impacts both the parents and the patient, how hope drives science and why every child deserves to leave behind a legacy.

My name is Ryan Coleman, and I’m a pediatric intensivist at Texas Children’s Hospital. I spend 50% of my time taking care of kids in the intensive care unit. Then the other part of my time, I spend as a member of the pulmonary hypertension service. I am one of the attending physicians and the medical director of the Right Ventricular Failure Program that we just started down here at Texas Children’s Hospital.

We started the Right Ventricular Failure Program here, to really focus on those kids who have progressive pulmonary hypertension, despite being on maximum medical therapy, who are approaching the need for potential lung transplant, looking…