Eduardo M. da Cruz is the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Critical Care and holds the Peter Lang Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiology at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology and Intensive Care at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine where he served as a Tenured Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Medical Director of the Heart Institute, Head of the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Program and Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Section and Inpatient Services at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Department of Pediatrics, until August 2022.
He has had an international life career in Portugal, Costa Rica, France, United Kingdom, Switzerland and the United States of America. He trained in Medicine and then in Pediatrics at the Universidad de Costa Rica and the Hospital Nacional de Niños in San José, Costa Rica, and then pursued a fellowship in pediatric cardiology and intensive care in Paris, France (Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Université René Descartes-Paris V).
After completing his training, Eduardo stayed in Europe as an attending physician until 2007, when he joined the cardiovascular team at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Denver, USA.
He has been involved for many years in strategic planning, growth and innovation. He has more than 30 years of experience as an attending physician in the medical and perioperative management of neonates, children and young adults with complex congenital or acquired heart disease, including heart transplant, mechanical assistance and quality improvement, safety, clinical effectiveness, stewardship, and crew resource management.
He is actively involved in clinical and translational research and teaching in the fields of pediatric cardiology and cardiac intensive care, has delivered close to 300 international lectures, and is a reviewer for 29 peer-reviewed journals, and the Editor or Co-Editor of nine CICU textbooks, including the reference entitled Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Intensive Care (Springer-Verlag UK), a major textbook and e-book/e-reference with 6 volumes and close to 4000 pages (Editor-in-Chief) and the first Textbook dedicated to the Intensive Care of Adults with Congenital Heart Disease (Editor-in-Chief). He has published 80 book chapters and close to 150 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals.
He is the founder of the Working Group on Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care of the Association for the European Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC), Past-Chair and founder of the Section on Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Intensive Care & Mechanical Circulatory Support of the European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC), a former Board Member of the Congenital Domain of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), member of the Society of Pediatric Research (SPR), the European Academy of Pediatrics (EAP) and of multiple other international Societies. He also co-founded and is a co-Director of the European Conference on Pediatric and Neonatal Cardiac Critical Care.
He received the American College of Cardiology Distinguished Service Award in 2019. Eduardo da Cruz is also an Expert Reviewer for the European Commission Horizon 2020 Project, and the President and Co-Chair of the Board of Surgeons of Hope Foundation, a United Nations-affiliated Non-Governmental Organization based in New York, USA.
