Jennifer Solms Nelson, MD

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Primary Office

Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida 6535 Nemours Parkway Orlando, FL 32827 Appointment: (407) 650-7715

Education & Training

Fellowship

  • Congenital Cardiac Surgery - University of Michigan Health System, 2013
  • Thoracic Surgery - University of Michigan Health System, 2012

Internship Residency

  • General Surgery - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010

Medical/Dental School

  • MD - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Surgery/Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery-Gen
  • American Board of Surgery/Congenital Cardiac Surgery

Insurance Accepted

  • Aetna Better Health FL Medicaid and Healthy Kids
  • Aetna HMO/POS/PPO/EPO
  • AmeriHealth Caritas Florida (FKA Prestige Health Choice)
  • AvMed
  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO
  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield Non HMO
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield Florida Blue Select
  • Cigna & Great West HMO/POS Open Access
  • Cigna & Great West PPO/EPO
  • Community Care Plan Medicaid
  • Employers Health Network PPO
  • Evolutions Healthcare
  • First Health Aetna PPO/EPO
  • Florida Community Care
  • Florida Medicaid
  • Florida Medicare
  • Health First Health Plans
  • HealthSmart Health Plans PPO
  • HUMANA HEALTHY HORIZONS (FKA HUMANA MEDICAID)
  • Humana HMO/POS
  • Humana PPO/EPO
  • Molina Healthcare Medicaid
  • Multiplan PPO
  • Olympus Managed Healthcare PPO ORL
  • Prime Health Services PPO Specialty Florida
  • Seminole Tribe of Florida
  • Simply Healthcare Healthy Kids
  • Simply Healthcare Medicaid HMO
  • Star Healthcare Network
  • Sunshine SMI/CMS 19 & 21
  • Sunshine State Health Plan Medicaid
  • Three Rivers Provider Network
  • Tricare/Humana Military Health Services/CHAMPVA
  • United Healthcare Commercial Products
  • United Healthcare Community Plan Medicaid
  • Volusia Health Network PPO/EPO

  • Intraoperative echocardiography in congenital heart surgery: What the surgeon wants to know; Progress in Pediatric Cardiology; (2020).

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  • Good News or Bad News? Considering Physician and Patient Perspectives on Outcomes.; The Annals of thoracic surgery; (2020).

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  • Transesophageal echocardiography in congenital heart surgery: Perioperative considerations; Progress in Pediatric Cardiology; (2020).

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  • A Systematic Review of Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Delayed Sternal Closure in Children.; World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery; (2020).

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  • Commentary: Allografts and pregnancy-Can good statistics lead to mis-conceptions about the relationship?; The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery; (2019).

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  • Surgery for Dysphagia Lusoria in Children.; The Annals of thoracic surgery; (2019).

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  • National Practice Patterns and Early Outcomes of Aortic Valve Replacement in Children and Teens.; The Annals of thoracic surgery; (2019).

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  • Regional Differences in Cost and Length of Stay in Neonates with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.; Pediatric cardiology; (2018).

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  • Hope should not spring eternal.; The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery; (2018).

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  • Paracorporeal Lung Devices: Thinking Outside the Box.; Frontiers in pediatrics; (2018).

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  • Feasibility of a healthcare system-based tetralogy of Fallot patient registry.; Cardiology in the young; (2017).

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  • Regional differences in right versus left congenital heart disease diagnoses in neonates in the United States.; Birth defects research; (2017).

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  • Evaluation of Explanted CorMatrix Intracardiac Patches in Children With Congenital Heart Disease.; The Annals of thoracic surgery; (2016).

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  • Geographic distribution of live births with tetralogy of Fallot in North Carolina 2003 to 2012.; Birth defects research. Part A, Clinical and molecular teratology; (2016).

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  • Early extubation in pediatric heart surgery across a spectrum of case complexity: Impact on hospital length of stay and chest tube days.; Progress in pediatric cardiology; (2016).

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  • Sex bias in CNS autoimmune disease mediated by androgen control of autoimmune regulator.; Nature communications; (2016).

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  • Resident Perceptions of 2-Year Versus 3-Year Cardiothoracic Training Programs.; The Annals of thoracic surgery; (2015).

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  • Invited Commentary.; The Annals of thoracic surgery; (2015).

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  • Long-Term Survival and Reintervention After the Ross Procedure Across the Pediatric Age Spectrum.; The Annals of thoracic surgery; (2015).

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