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As a joint cooperative of Children's of Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, we are leaders in comprehensive pediatric and adult congenital cardiac care for the people of Alabama and Southeast United States.
Patient Care
The novel design of facilities involving both Children's of Alabama and University of Alabama at Birmingham embodies a visionary concept which allows the patient (whether still in the womb, a newborn, a teenager or an adult) to receive care in an environment best suited for his/her health needs. The Joseph S. Bruno Heart Center located in the Benjamin Russell hospital for Children physically links the newly constructed pediatric cardiac center with the newborn suites of the Women and Infants Center and then to the adult congenital heart surgery facilities at UAB. This provides a continuum of care for patients with congenital heart disease and allows our multidisciplinary team of specialists to move efficiently from one end of the platform to the other.
Clinical Outcomes
The Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center at Children's of Alabama carefully records all clinical outcomes after pediatric heart surgery, including survival. Learn more here.
Cardiac Critical Care
At the Children's of Alabama Bruno Heart Center, our 20-bed Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) cares for children in need of specialized care for their cardiac condition.
Our multidisciplinary team includes cardiovascular intensivists trained in pediatric cardiology, pediatric critical care and neonatology. They work alongside our cardiac surgeons and together with a team of highly specialized nurses, respiratory therapists, and nurse practitioners to provide the best care for our patients.
Research and Quality Initiative (QI) projects are an integral part of delivering expert care to our patients in the CVICU. Our Clinical Guidelines have led to improved outcomes as highlighted below.
We understand that children requiring cardiac critical care can be a highly stressful time for both patients and their families. We are committed to providing our patients with the best care possible from our expert team of pediatric subspecialists.
Click here for more information on the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
Faculty Division Director
Yung Lau, M.D.
Section Director-CVICU
Santiago Borasino, M.D.
Pediatric Practice Manager
Darlene Stampsdstamps@uabmc.Edu205.934.0917
Faculty List
Cardiology Faculty
Dr. Cecile Woel, A Retired Psychiatrist And Lover Of The Arts, Dies
Dr. Cecile Nicole Andree Woel, a retired psychiatrist and matriarch who inspired four of her children to become physicians, died of heart failure Sept. 28 at Sinai Hospital. The Mount Washington resident was 93.
Born in Cap Haitien, Haiti, she was the daughter of Noroy Theodore and his wife, Eugele. She was a 1957 graduate of Faculte de Medecine et de Pharmacie de l'Université d'Haiti and did a residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
In a family obituary, prepared by her eight children, they wrote Dr. Woel was raised in an environment where she developed a love of the arts.
She was trained as a pianist and painter and excelled academically. Although she was not a gifted singer, she loved French religious hymns and the music of Jacques Brel and Edith Piaf.
"She sang with enthusiasm, passion and love," said her daughter, Sybille Woel.
"At 18 under the baccalaureate system, she was admitted to medical school. Later, at the University of Maryland, she completed her residency in psychiatry and was one was of two women in her class," said her daughter, Alissa Woel. "She was one of those early groundbreakers, and the barriers to graduate studies were high at that time. My mother loved her independence. She also loved having both a family and a career."
She met her future husband, Gerard-Marie McGuffie Woel, while both were medical students. They married in 1959 in Haiti. After he did an internship at a Paris hospital, they settled in Baltimore on Greenspring Avenue.
"He was immediately smitten by her striking elegance and in particular her hats," said the family obituary.
Dr. Woel initially practiced pediatrics but later changed her medical specialty to psychiatry.
She was a psychiatrist at the old Seton Psychiatric Institute in Northwest Baltimore, the Sheppard Pratt Hospital and Spring Grove Hospital Center, where she spent decades in clinical practice and administrative roles.
"Despite actually wanting 12 children, she settled for eight," the family obituary said. They remembered her as a devoted and affectionate mother.
"She was famously rigorous regarding table etiquette, posture, grammar and diction, yet most indulgent with pastries or any sweets, bedtimes, play and festivities," the family obituary said.
"At her bedside were poetry books, a weathered unabridged Larousse dictionary and her cherished well worn Bible," the family wrote.
Dr. Woel was a dedicated pianist of Chopin and Beethoven. She was also a gardener and often worked into the evening, watering and weeding. She prepared bouquets of flowers that her husband took to his surgical patients. She was known for her roses, dahlias and hydrangeas.
Survivors include a son, Gerard Woel II, of Philadelphia; seven daughters, Cassandre Woel, of San Jose, California, Alissa Woel, of Saint Louis, Missouri, Valerie Woel, of Baltimore, Sybille Woel, of Baltimore, Arabella Popovich, of Anne Arundel County, Rosemonde Woel Hasani, of Provence, France. And Roxanne Woel Nelson, of Baltimore; and eight grandchildren.
A Mass was held Oct. 5 at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart.
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