Dr. Mark Rodefeld's Fontan Pump Prototype
The Children’s Heart Foundation was an early and repeated funder of Dr. Mark Rodefeld's research to create a Fontan Blood Pump that simulates a heart pump and could reduce the need for heart transplants. Dr. Rodefeld went on to receive a $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue his research on this revolutionary device.
Watch him explain how the pump works - and his vision for the future - in this clip from our Visionaries episode, "Matters of the Heart".