Stella Van Praagh was a pediatric cardiologist and pathologist at Children's Hospital Boston.
[1] She graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of Athens in 1952 and undertook further training in pediatric cardiology at Johns Hopkins where she worked with Helen Taussig.
There, she met Richard Van Praagh, and the two were married shortly afterwards, beginning a lifelong personal and professional partnership.
They proposed a new approach to formalize anatomic descriptions of congenital heart disease, which forms the basis of much of the current standard understanding.
[3] Specific examples include Truncus Arteriosus,[4] sinus venosus atrial septal defect,[5] and heterotaxy syndrome.