Manning Family Children’s announced the recruitment of Michelle Sykes, MD, PhD, a pediatric cardiologist who will lead the Gulf South’s first program for pediatric pulmonary hypertension as member of its Heart Center. Sykes will serve as medical director of the new Manning Family Children’s Pulmonary Hypertension Treatment and Research Center, and will serve as a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at LSU Health New Orleans.
Sykes holds a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she went on to earn a PhD in bioengineering. She then earned an MD degree from the Medical College of Georgia, followed by residency training in general pediatrics at UT Southwestern / Children’s Medical Center in Dallas. Sykes completed a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, where she also completed a program in clinical and translational science. She completed training with an advanced fellowship in pediatric pulmonary hypertension at Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif.
Sykes most recently served as assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and UK HealthCare in Lexington, Ky., where she led the establishment and development of a pediatric pulmonary hypertension service and program.
The Heart Center at Manning Family Children's provides evaluation and treatment of patients with congenital cardiovascular disorders, from before birth, through childhood, and into adulthood.