Elite Team of "Miracle Workers" Biographies, Show Premieres March 6th  2/27/06

"MIRACLE WORKERS," AN INSPIRING NEW SERIES ABOUT REAL PEOPLE OVERCOMING INSURMOUNTABLE ODDS WITH THE HELP OF AN ELITE TEAM OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, PREMIERES MONDAY, MARCH 6 ON ABC

"MIRACLE WORKERS," BIOGRAPHIES

REDMOND BURKE, MD

Dr. Burke is the Chief of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery at The Congenital Heart Institute at Miami Children's Hospital and Arnold Palmer Hospital in Florida. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, and then received his medical degree from Harvard. As an attending at Boston Children's Hospital, he performed the first pediatric Heart Lung Transplant in New England in 1992. He has pioneered new surgical techniques, published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals, and lectures worldwide. Since building a new heart center in Miami in 1995, Dr. Burke and his team have repaired thousands of children with complex heart defects.

BILLY COHN, MD

Dr. Cohn, who has been a Cardiothoracic Surgeon for 12-1/2 years, is Director of Minimally Invasive Surgical Technology and Co-Director of the Cullen Cardiovascular Research Lab at the famed Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston, TX. He has over 30 patents for medical devices, several of which have revolutionized heart surgery techniques. A graduate of Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH, and of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, he served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for 11 years as an Associate Professor, before returning to The Texas Medical Center.

JANNA BULLOCK, RN, MSN

Janna Bullock, RN, MSN is affiliated with Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA and has been practicing for over four years. She was inspired by her mother, also a RN, to go into the medical profession. The daughter of a career naval officer who grew up in various parts of the country, she is a clinical nurse specialist and a pediatric nurse practitioner.

TAMARA HOUSTON, RN

Licensed in 30 states and currently affiliated with Mt. View Hospital in Las Vegas, NV, Tamara Houston's nursing specialty is PACU, Post Anesthesia Recovery Unit/Recovery and OR. She has worked OR since 1994 and PACU for the past two years. The Texas native attended the University of Texas at Arlington, majoring in accounting, when time off spent nursing her ailing mother inspired her to change professions.

Source: ABC Press Release