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Anschutz Medical Campus
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Aurora, CO 80045
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Jeffrey Darst, MD
Provider's Specialties
- Cardiology - Pediatric
- Pediatrics
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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.
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Departments and Programs
Conditions Treated
- Congenital Heart Disease (CHD)
- Anxiety
- Stress
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
5280 Top Docs 2021
5280 Magazine/Peer vote
5280 Top Docs 2022
5280 Magazine Peer Vote
Patient Satisfaction Award 2024
2013-2024
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