Dr. Jennifer Nelson is a congenital heart surgeon at Nemours Children's Health in Orlando, FL and Professor of Surgery at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Nelson's clinical interests include surgery for tetralogy of Fallot, aortic valve disease in children and young adults, and Ebstein's anomaly. In addition to publishing on these topics, Dr. Nelson's research focuses on data science, the epigenetics of congenital heart disease, and congenital heart surgery outcomes, particularly utilizing the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) National Databases. Dr. Nelson holds several Society leadership positions and recently served for six years as the Chair of the STS Workforce on the Surgical Treatment of Adults with Congenital Heart Disease. During that time, she led the development of the STS Adult Congenital Heart Disease mortality risk model and the STS ACHD Registry Module. She is the former Resident Director to the STS Board of Directors, and currently serves on the Workforce for National Databases as the ACHD lead. Dr. Nelson is a member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery where she participated on the Congenital Clinical Practice Standards Committee Writing Groups on Fast Track Extubation and Ebstein anomaly. She is the current Chair of the STS Congenital Access and Publications Committee and the current Chair of the STS Writing Group composing Multi-Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the indications and timing of pulmonary valve replacement following repair of tetralogy of Fallot. Dr. Nelson will serve as the congenital program chair for the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association’s annual meeting in 2024.