Katia Bravo Jaimes, MD
Medical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program
Dr. Katia Bravo Jaimes is a board-certified cardiologist specializing in adult congenital heart disease and serves as medical director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program with the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Heart Institute. She earned her medical degree from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru. Dr. Bravo Jaimes completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York, followed by a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She completed an additional subspecialty fellowship training in adult congenital heart disease at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Her clinical and research interests include complex congenital heart disease, heart failure therapies in adults with congenital heart disease, cardio-obstetrics, and health disparities in cardiovascular care.
Prior to joining Nicklaus Children’s, Dr. Bravo Jaimes served as a senior associate consultant in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, and held an academic appointment as assistant professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic Alix of Medicine and Science.
Dr. Bravo Jaimes is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, adult congenital heart disease, and echocardiography, including transthoracic, transesophageal and stress modalities. She is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, board member of the International Society of Adult Congenital Heart Disease and a member of the American Heart Association, Colombian Society of Cardiology, Peruvian Society of Cardiology and Peruvian American Medical Society. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed journals and presented at over 60 medical conferences.
Dr. Bravo Jaimes is employed by is employed by Nicklaus Children’s Pediatric Specialists (NCPS), the multispecialty medical group practice of Nicklaus Children’s Health System.