Antonio G. Cabrera, MD

Antonio Cabrera, MD, FAAP, FAHA, FACC, FHFSA, is the division chief of cardiology and co-director of the Heart Center. He is a professor of pediatrics at The Ohio State University and currently holds the Nationwide George H. Dunlap Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiology. Previously, Dr. Cabrera served as the L. George Veasy Presidential Professor at the University of Utah and co-director of the Heart Center at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dr. Cabrera is trained in pediatrics, cardiology, cardiac critical care, heart failure/transplantation and medical education. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the Heart Failure Society of America. He has lectured extensively across the globe. In addition, Dr. Cabrera was the co-principal investigator of the institutional NIH/NHLBI Pediatric Heart Network grant at the University of Utah.

Dr. Cabrera graduated from Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala. He completed his internship and residency at the Children’s Hospital of the University of Illinois at Chicago, followed by a Pediatric Cardiology fellowship at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital/Case Western Reserve University and advanced training in Cardiovascular Critical Care at Arkansas Children’s Hospital/University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Ark.

He was the founder and first medical director of the Cardiac Critical Care Services at LeBonheur Children's in Memphis Tennessee; the co-founder of the first heart failure-focused critical care unit in the US at Texas Children's Hospital, the co-founder and first co-Editor of PREP Cardiology, and the past President of the Society of Pediatric Cardiology Training Program Directors. At the national level, he is on the executive committee for the Section on Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of the AAP and is the chair of the Young Hearts Council of the American Heart Association. He has published over 80 manuscripts and book chapters and also edited three textbooks. He is the founder of the National Academy for Fellow Career Development, a philanthropy supported scholarship-based learning bootcamp in leadership, quality, and research for pediatric cardiology fellows. His career life goals are to democratize knowledge and expand opportunity. As a nationally recognized mentor, he has impacted numerous trainees and early career faculty with his guidance.