Michael Seckeler, MD, MSc
Dr. Seckeler’s clinical interests are in catheter-based interventions for children and adults with congenital heart disease, with a special interest in patients with single ventricle anatomy and the lymphatic complications that occur as a result of their post-operative physiology. He also has undertaken work with 3D modelling and printing for use in trainee and patient education as well as procedural planning and has presented his work at national and international conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals.
As a pediatric resident at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson in 2006, Dr. Seckeler conducted a pilot study funded by a UArizona Sarver Heart Center Investigator Award, under the mentorship of Scott Klewer, MD, professor, UArizona Department of Pediatrics and researcher with the Steele Children’s Research Center. The results of the study provided evidence to the efficacy of employing pulse oximetry as a universal screening test to detect cyanotic congenital heart disease. This study led Banner-University Medical Center, formerly University of Arizona Medical Center, to become the first hospital in Tucson to adopt pulse oximetry screening on all newborns. In 2011, the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Cardiology Foundation and the American Heart Association made recommendations for newborn pulse oximetry screening of CCHD.
Degrees
- MSc: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Clinical Research, Department of Public Health, 2011
- MD: University of Maryland, Baltimore, 2003
- BA: University of Maryland, College Park, 1999
Work Experience
- Fellowship: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Pediatric Cardiology, 2012
- Residency: University of Arizona, Tucson, Pediatrics, 2006
Awards
- Castle Connolly Top Doctor, 2019
- Fellow, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, 2018
- Winner, Case Competition: Between a Rock and a Hard Case, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, 2017
- Winner, Best Poster, University of Arizona College of Medicine Medical Education Research Day, 2017
- Finalist, Charles S. Kleinman Scientific Scholarship Award, 2015
- Platform Presentation, 7th Annual Thomas F. Boat Lectures for Fellow Research, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 2013
- Fellow, American College of Cardiology, 2013
- Winner, American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young Early Career Investigator Award, 2013
- Finalist for Pediatric & Adult Interventional Cardiac Symposium Scientific Scholarship Award, 2012
- American College of Cardiology Foundation/Bristol-Myers Squibb Travel Award, 2012
- Fellow Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Virginia, 2012
- University of Virginia Andy Ford Award for contributions to the field of Pediatric Cardiovascular Disease, 2011
- National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program Recipient, 2007
Licensure & Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics, 2006
- Pediatric Cardiology, 2012
- Adult Congenital Heart Disease, 2019