Dr. Starnes explained that Billy has a condition called Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart condition where four different heart defects affect normal blood flow through the heart.

In an interview with 'Good Morning America,' Dr. Vaughn A. Starnes spoke out about Kimmel's son Billy's heart defect Jimmy Kimmel/Instagram; Bruce Glikas/WireImage Jimmy Kimmel's son's surgeon is ...

In an interview with “Good Morning America,” Dr. Vaughn A. Starnes told ABC News’ Matt Gutman that Kimmel and his wife Molly McNearney did not know about their son’s heart defect until ...

Dr. Starnes added that Jimmy was 'a mess' going into his son's surgery and 'very emotional', while his wife, Molly McNearney, 46, was a 'rock.' ...

In a new interview with ABC News, Dr. Vaughn Starnes of Children's Hospital Los Angeles spoke out about the 7-year-old's latest open-heart procedure to treat his "very severe form" of tetralogy of ...

Chemist William Starnes is a member of the inaugural class of the Southwest Virginia Walk of Fame, a group that includes other accomplished natives of the region, such as the Stanley Brothers, Daniel ...

Children's Hospital Los Angeles is one of the few centers in the country to perform this operation, which Dr. Starnes developed 30 years ago for babies with severe Ebstein anomaly. The surgery closes ...