J.D. Serfas, M.D

Professional Background

Dr. John D. (JD) Serfas is a specialist in adult congenital heart disease and interventional cardiology and serves as director of the University of Kansas Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program. He strives to provide highly individualized, holistic care to each of his patients, recognizing that both adults with congenital heart disease and those in need of complex cardiac interventions have unique histories and complex medical needs. He is passionate about providing world-class comprehensive adult congenital heart disease care to the Kansas City region and beyond and actively participates in clinical research to advance outcomes in interventional cardiology and adult congenital heart disease.

He specializes particularly in catheter-based interventions for adults with congenital heart disease, including transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement, transcatheter closure of atrial and ventricular septal defects, patent ductus arteriosus and patent foramen ovale, percutaneous repair of coarctation of the aorta, pulmonary artery and pulmonary venous stents, and complex single-ventricle interventions, including for patients who have undergone Fontan palliation.

His interests outside of congenital heart disease include valvular heart disease and coronary artery disease and the performance of complex percutaneous coronary interventions.

He earned his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and completed training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, and subspecialty fellowships in cardiology, adult congenital heart disease, interventional cardiology and structural heart disease at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.