Introduction -- Selection, Training and Mentoring of Cardiac Surgeons -- Improving Pediatric Cardiac Care with Continuous Quality Improvement Methods and Tools -- Quality Improvement in Pediatric Cardiology: The National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative -- Teams, Team Training, and the Role of Simulation -- The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and Operating Room Continuum: Quality and Safety in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit -- Professional Formation of Physicians Focused on Improving Care -- Surgical Volume and Outcome Relationship in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery -- The Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest (POCA) Registry -- Reporting in Pediatric Resuscitation: Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation Registry -- Addressing Nutrition and Growth in Children with Congenital Heart Disease -- Patients as Observers and Reporters in Support of Systems and Patient Safety -- Failure to Rescue and Failure to Perceive in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: Lessons Learned from Aviation -- Quality Improvement in Noninvasive Imaging-Present and Future Initiatives -- Improving Clinical Outcomes in Pediatric Cardiology -- The Impact of Continuous Quality Improvement on Pediatric Cardiac Surgery -- Leadership and Quality Improvement -- A Brief Description of the Role of the Federal Government in the Improvement of Healthcare Costs and Quality in the United States -- Lessons Learned from the Public -- Inquiry into Children's Heart Surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and the English Safe and Sustainable Cardiac Review -- Lean in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit -- Local Improvement Teams -- Implementation Science-The Next Frontier -- Leadership, Surgeon Well-Being and Other Non-Technical Aspects of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery -- Quality and Safety in a Children's Hospital -- The Children's Hospital of Michigan Quality and Safety Journey: Making Safety First and Making It Last -- Resilience and Systems Engineering -- Measuring and Assessing Adverse Medical Events -- The Role of Communicationand Patient Handovers in Pediatric Cardiac Care Centers -- The Role of Technology and Medical Devices in Enhancing Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Outcomes -- Human Factors and Outcomes in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery -- Information Management and Hospital Enterprise Information Systems -- Towards Effective Data Utilization in Congenital Cardiac Critical Care -- Clinical Decision Making -- Design of Cardiac Surgery Operating Rooms and the Impact of the Built Environment -- Simulation-Based Training to Enhance Patient Safety in Pediatric Cardiovascular Care -- Epilogue -A Vision for the Future.