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Jeffrey Darst, MD
- Medical Director--Heart Institute Wellness Program
- Medical Director--Inpatient Consult Service
- Medical Director--Outpatient Cardiology, CHCO Anschutz Campus
Provider's Specialties
- Cardiology - Pediatric
- Pediatrics
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We participate with most major health insurance plans and national transplant networks.
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My care philosophy
To try to understand how children and adolescents perceive their symptoms, their illness or their disease...and to start there, at each visit. To help teach young people that symptoms and disease may be part of their life, but that it does not define them.
Get to know Jeffrey Darst, MD
Departments and Programs
Conditions Treated
- Congenital Heart Defects (CHD)
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Stress
- Anxiety
Languages spoken
- English
Experience and background
My clinical interests are congenital heart disease. I am also very motivated to examine the effect of symptoms--with or without "identified" disease--on the lives of young people.
Undergraduate 1998
Vanderbilt University (TN)
Medical Education 2002
University of Nebraska College of Medicine
Residency 2005
Oregon Health & Science University
Fellowship 2008
University of Colorado
Fellowship 2009
Children's Hospital (Boston) Program
Fellow Teaching Award 2013
Pediatric Cardiology Fellows
Williams Syndrome Association Heart Award 2017
WSA
Patient Satisfaction Award 2021
2013-2021
PRC/CHCO
5280 Top Docs 2021
5280 Magazine/Peer vote
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