Dr. Franklin is a graduate of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and

UCLA School of Medicine. He did his residency training in Internal Medicine and

Pediatrics at Duke University, where he first was exposed to Adult Congenital Heart

Disease (ACHD). He then did two simultaneous fellowships in adult cardiology and

pediatric cardiology at St. Luke’s/Texas Heart Institute and at Baylor College of

Medicine (BCM)/Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) in Houston. In 2004, he founded the

Texas Adult Congenital Heart Program, where he has served as Director from 2004-2018.

In 2013, he was appointed Chief of Cardiology at the TCH Pavilion For Women, where

he directed the clinical and administrative cardiovascular service lines. In September of

2017, he was selected as Head of the Department Adult Medicine at Texas Children's

Hospital and Associate Vice Chair of Clinical Operations in the Department of Pediatrics.

He is also the recipient of two prestigious Fulbright and Jaworski Awards of BCM

Faculty Excellence, one in Teaching and one in Educational Leadership.

He joined Phoenix Children’s Hospital in 2018 as the Co-Director of

the Heart Center, the Director of the ACHD Program, and Full Professor in three University of Arizona-College of Medicine-Phoenix Departments, including the Departments of Medicine, Child Health, and Obstetrics and Gynecology.  Under his tenure in Phoenix, their program had unprecedented growth in patient volume and a tremendous rise in academic productivity from their faculty.  In 2021, he received an endowed chair at Phoenix Children’s, the first ever for their Heart Center, and in 2022, he received the Breaking Barriers Award from ElevateMeD, a national non-profit organization focused on underrepresented students in medicine.

In 2024, Dr. Franklin was recruited back to the East Coast, where he currently serves as the Senior Vice President of the Heart Center at Children’s National in Washington, DC.  In this role, Dr. Franklin is responsible for all divisions of the cardiac program, including Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiac Intensive Care, and Cardiovascular Anesthesia.