A coronary heart surgeon, Jared Beller, MD, focuses on caring for adults with congenital coronary heart illness. He performs a variety of coronary heart surgical procedures, together with:

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Study extra about Beller via these 7 fast questions.

1. What has most impressed and formed your method to affected person care?

My mentors right here at UVA Well being, who taught me the way to work together with sufferers, the way to suppose creatively about fixing issues, and getting sufferers feeling higher.

2. What’s your favourite a part of your job?

Attending to work together with sufferers and their households and listening to how they are going to make the most of the chance that they have been given to really feel higher and exit and reside their lives.

3. What’s your greatest worry if you’re a affected person?

Worry of the unknown. Surgical procedure is a giant life occasion for lots of sufferers — one thing they have not handled earlier than. As a surgeon, I really feel I can take individuals via that course of, give them a roadmap of what to anticipate, and inform them the way to get via it to the opposite facet.

4. What do you do for stress reduction?

I take pleasure in spending time with my household and spending time in nature.

5. Canine or cats?

Each — I had a cat rising up and plan to get a canine sooner or later.

6. Final film you noticed? Thumbs up or down?

I watched Vehicles with my children. Thumbs up.

7. Finest recommendation you have ever heard?

To attempt to study one thing each day and never take any affected person encounter as a right.