Watching your baby go into open-heart surgery is scary, but a Grinnell, Iowa, family says everyone at University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital was so calm, confident, and caring that it made them feel at peace.

UIHC Dept. of Surgery Clinical Assistant Professor Sharon Beth Larson is cited in this article announcing that the Heart and Vascular Clinic has performed 1000 transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures.

Dr. Sharon Larson, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, was called in to lead the ExtraCorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) procedure that was critically necessary to save a 6-month pregna