Edgar Jaeggi

Title: Senior Scientist, SickKids Research Institute

Designations: MD, FRCP (CP)

Phone: 416-813-6142

Email: Edgar.jaeggi@sickkids.ca

Fax: 416-813-7547

Alternate Phone: 416-813-7654 ext. 402459

U of T Positions: Professor, Department of Paediatrics

Biography

Dr. Edgar Jaeggi graduated from the Medical School at the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1984. Following his paediatric residency in Switzerland, Jaeggi trained in paediatric cardiology at the University Children's Hospitals of Zurich and Geneva, Switzerland, the Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia, in fetal and interventional cardiology at the Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal, and electrophysiology at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto.

In 1998, Jaeggi joined the clinical staff at the University Hospital of Geneva where he directed the Paediatric Electrophysiology Service. In September 2002, he returned to Toronto to join the Division of Cardiology and the Translational Medicine program at SickKids. In December 2003, Jaeggi became the head of the Fetal Cardiac Program, one of the largest and most successful fetal cardiac programs worldwide.

Race against the clock: Lifesaving in-utero heart procedure spares Baby Sebastian a traumatic birth and bridges the gap to corrective surgery

Doctors from SickKids and Mount Sinai Hospital, inserted a balloon into Sebastian’s heart, via a needle placed under ultrasound guidance through his mother’s uterus, to open up the atrial septum. It is believed that this is the first time in the world that this procedure – a Balloon Atrial Septoplasty (BAS) – has been performed before birth to treat Sebastian’s particular condition.