Carmen specializes in providing perfusion and ECMO support to infants and children with congenital heart disease. Her passion for taking care of children started as a neonatal nurse and Captain in the Army Nurse Corps and then carried through to her new career as a perfusionist in 1992. She joined the Doernbecher Children Hospital’s cardiac team in 2000 and now can’t imagine living anywhere else but the Pacific Northwest.

Carmen was raised in a large musical family and continues to enjoy playing violin and singing in her church choir.  Being the daughter of a Swiss baker, she also loves to bake, as well as cycle, hike and read.