Dr. Ralf Holzer
MD, MSc, FSCAI
Director of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Catheterization
UC Davis Children's Hospital
Dr. Ralf Holzer is the Director of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Catheterization at UC Davis Children's Hospital. He is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at University of California, Davis. Dr. Holzer received his medical degree from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany. He completed his residency training in Germany and the United Kingdom, and his cardiology fellowship training at the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital in the UK, including an advanced fellowship in transcatheter interventions at the University of Chicago Children's Hospital. Subsequently he worked as a consultant at the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital in the UK (2004-05), co-director of the cath lab at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio (2005-14), cath lab director and acting division chief at Sidra Medicine in Doha, Qatar (2014-17), and division chief and pediatric cath lab director at Weill Cornell Medicine New York (2017-2022), until his departure to UC Davis in November 2022.
