Shaun White: Heart Condition Put a Fight in Me

Olympian Shaun White is an inspiration to children born with congenital heart disease (CHD). He was born with Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) and has really shown how someone can thrive if they have immediate access to high quality heart care. Watch as Shaun tells the story of how he was diagnosed as an infant and how his experience drove his aspirations later in life. Video from the 2022 Children’s HeartLink Global Gathering. For more on Shaun’s experience with TOF and CHD: Children’s HeartLink is on a mission to save lives by transforming heart care in underserved parts of the world. Since our inception in 1969, we’ve served more than 1.5 million children with heart disease. Our work is for the children born today and for those born tomorrow who need access to heart care to survive and thrive. All children deserve access to heart care. But children born with heart disease in a low- or middle-income country are far less likely to be s