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Jeffrey B. Anderson, MD, MPH, MBA
Chief Quality Officer, Heart Institute
Chief Quality Officer, Heart Institute
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Phone 513-636-3865
Fax 513-636-3952
Email email@example.com
Pediatric electrophysiology; syncope; quality improvement and outcomes
Syncope; nutrition and growth in congenital heart disease; large database analysis; quality improvement
Following his cardiology fellowship, Dr. Anderson helped establish the Syncope Clinic in the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and he continues to direct the work in this clinic.
Dr. Anderson helped develop the Safety, Quality, Value program within the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The Heart Institute's Safety, Quality, and Value team provides a platform of core data management, analytic, quality improvement, and project management expertise focused specifically on the Heart Institute's strategic priority areas related to safety, quality, and value. This team serves a supporting role to further the Heart Institute's ability to achieve its mission of being the leader in clinical outcomes, experience, and value for patients and families who receive diagnostic and interventional services for congenital and acquired heart disease.
MD: University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, 2002.
Masters of Public Health: University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, 2002.
Residency: Pediatrics, University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill, NC, 2002-2006.
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2006-2009.
Fellowship: Pediatric Electrophysiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2009-2010.
Masters of Business Administration: Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2013.
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Anderson J, Grenier M, Edwards N, Madsen N, Czosek R, Spar D, Barnes A, Pratt J, King E, Knilans T. Usefulness of Combined History, Physical Examination, Electrocardiogram and Limited Echocardiogram in Screening Adolescent Athletes for Risk for Sudden Cardiac Death. Am J Cardiol. 2014 Dec 1;114(11):1763-7.
Anderson JB, Beekman RH 3rd, Kugler JD, Rosenthal GL, Jenkins KJ, Klitzner TS, Martin GR, Neish SR, Darbie L, King E, Lannon C. Improvement in growth in infants with single ventricle using a learning collaborative. National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative. Congenit Heart Dis. 2014 Nov;9(6):512-20.
Burch PT, Gerstenberger E, Ravishankar C, Hehir DA, Davies RR, Colan SD, Sleeper LA, Newburger JW, Clabby ML, Williams IA, Li JS, Uzark K, Cooper DS, Lambert LM, Pemberton VL, Pike NA, Anderson JB, Dunbar-Masterson C, Khaikin S, Zyblewski SC, Minich LL. Longitudinal assessment of growth in hypoplastic left heart syndrome: results from the single ventricle reconstruction trial. J Am Heart Assoc. 2014 Jun 27;3(3).
Slicker J, Hehir DA, Horsley M, Monczka J, Stern KW, Roman B, Ocampo EC, Flanagan L, Keenan E, Lambert LM, Davis D, Lamonica M, Rollison N, Heydarian H, Anderson JB. Nutrition Algorithms for Infants with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome; Birth Through the First Interstage Period. Congenital Heart Disease. 2013 Mar-April;8(2)89-102.
Anderson JB, Czosek RJ, Knilans TK, Marino BS. The Effect of Paediatric Syncope on Health-Related Quality of Life. Cardiol Young. 2012 Oct;22(5):583-588.
Anderson J, Czosek R, Cnota J, Meganathan K, Knilans T, Heaton P. Pediatric syncope: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey results. J Emerg Med. 2012 Oct;43(4):575-83.
Anderson J, Iyer S, Schidlow D, Williams R, Varadarajan K, Horsley M, Slicker J, Pratt J, King E, Lannon C. Variation in growth of infants with a single ventricle. J Pediatr. 2012 Jul;161(1):16-21.
Anderson J, Eghtesady P, Kalkwarf HJ, Kehl JE, Marino BS. Low weight-for-age z-score and infection risk following Fontan procedure. Ann Thorac Surg. 2011 May;91(5):1460-6.
Anderson J, Beekman RH, Eghtesady P, Uzark K, Kalkwarf HJ, Kehl JE, Marino BS. Predictors of poor weight gain in infants with a single ventricle. J Pediatr. 2010 Sep;157(3):407-13, 413.e1.
Anderson JB, Beekman RH, 3rd, Border WL, Kalkwarf HJ, Khoury PR, Uzark K, Eghtesady P, Marino BS. Lower weight-for-age z score adversely affects hospital length of stay after the bidirectional Glenn procedure in 100 infants with a single ventricle. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2009;138(2):397-404.
Alexis Benscoter, DO
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Phone 513-636-0493
Fax 513-636-1566
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Cardiac critical care; critical care; CICU
Quality improvement and safety
MD/DO: University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, Biddeford, ME, 2006.
Residency: Pediatrics, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, 2009.
Fellowships: Hospital-based medicine, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, 2010; Pediatric Critical Care, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 2013; Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 2014.
Certification: Pediatrics, 2010; Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2014.
Ramby AL, Nguyen N, Costello JM. Cardiogenic shock masquerading as septic shock. Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine. 2014;15(2):140-48.
Ramby AL, Brannen ML. Disorders and treatment of the alveolar-capillary unit. In: Stockwell JA, Preissig CM, ed. Comprehensive Critical Care: Pediatric. Mount Prospect: Society of Critical Care Medicine. 2010:231-48.
Nicole M. Brown, MD
Phone 513-636-4432
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
MD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Jonathan W. Byrnes, MD
Attending Cardiac Intensivist, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Attending Cardiac Intensivist, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Phone 513-803-1801
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Jonathan Byrnes, MD, is an assistant professor of pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and an attending cardiac intensivist in Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center's Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. He joined the faculty in July 2013.
A native of Mississippi, Dr. Byrnes graduated with honors from University of Mississippi and earned his medical degree from University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2005. He completed his pediatric residency at Blair Batson Children's Hospital in Jackson, MS and a combined fellowship in cardiology and critical care medicine at Arkansas Children's Hospital. Dr. Byrnes's clinical interests are providing superb, cost-effective care and delivering cohesive management amongst all specialties in the cardiac intensive care unit.
Dr. Byrnes is active in clinical and translational research involving extracorporeal life support that would benefit critically ill children. This research is primarily focused on the biocompatibility of the patient / device interface and the associated interaction of the coagulation and inflammatory pathways. The aim of these endeavors is to ultimately decrease the incidence of end organ dysfunction and stroke associated with these therapies.
MD: University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 2005.
Residency: Pediatrics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 2008.
Fellowships: Combined Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Arkansas Children's Hospital, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, 2013.
Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, 2008.
Prodhan P, Imamura M, Garcia X, Byrnes J, Bhutta A, Dyamenahalli U. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in Newborns and Children supported on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. ASAIO J. 2012;58(2): 143-147.
Byrnes J, Williams B, Prodhan P, Erdem E, Williamson R, Gautam N, James C, Jaquiss R, Imamura M, Bhutta A. Successful intra-arterial thrombolytic therapy for a right middle cerebral artery stroke in a 2-year old supported by a ventricular assist device. Transpl Int. 2012;25(3): e31-33.
Byrnes J, W McKamie, C Swearingen, Gossett J, Prodhan P, Bhutta A, Jaquiss R, Imamura M, Fiser R. Hemolysis during Cardiac Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Case-Control Comparison of a Roller Pump and a Centrifugal Pump in a Pediatric Population. ASAIO J. 2011 Sep-Oct;57(5):456-61.
Byrnes J, Prodhan P, Imamura M, Frazier E. Accidental Azygos Vein Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Cannulation in a Neonate with Premature Closure of the Ductus Arteriosus. ASAIO J. 2011 Jul-Aug; 57(4): 344-5.
Clifford Chin, MD
Co-Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy
Co-Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Phone 513-803-3151
Fax 513-803-7869
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Pediatric cardiology; cardiomyopathy and transplantation
Cardiomyopathy and transplantation
MD: SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, 1989.
Residency: Pediatrics, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, 1989.
Fellowship: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1992.
Castleberry C, Ryan T, Chin C. Transplantation in the Highly Sensitized Pediatric Patient. Circulation. 2014;129:2313-2319.
Chin C. Pediatric Antibody Mediated Rejection. Pediatric Transplantation. 2012;16:404-4012.
Pietra B, Kantor P, Bartlett H, Chin C, Canter C, Larsen R, Edens E, Colan C, Towbin T, Lipshultz S, Kirklin J, Naftel D, Sleeper L, Hsu D. Early Predictors of Survival to and After Clinical Heart Transplantation in Children' with Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Circulation. 2012;126:1079-86.
Chin C, Chen G, Sequeria F, Berry G, Siehr S, Bernstein D, Rosenthal D, Reinhartz O, Tyan D. Clinical usefulness of a novel C1q assay to detect immunoglobulin G antibodies capable of fixing complement in sensitized pediatric heart transplant patients. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2011 Feb;30(2):158-63.
Chin C, Lukito SS, Shek J, Bernstein D, Perry SB. Prevention of pediatric graft coronary artery disease: atorvastatin. Pediatr Transplant. 2008 Jun;12(4):442-6.
Potena L, Fearon WF, Sydow K, Holweg C, Luikart H, Chin C, Weisshaar D, Mocarski ES, Lewis DB, Valantine HA, Cooke JP. Asymmetric dimethylarginine and cardiac allograft vasculopathy progression: modulation by sirolimus. Transplantation. 2008 Mar 27;85(6):827-33.
Tu W, Potena L, Stepick-Biek P, Liu L, Dionis KY, Luikart H, Fearon WF, Holmes TH, Chin C, Cooke JP, Valantine HA, Mocarski ES, Lewis DB. T-cell immunity to subclinical cytomegalovirus infection reduces cardiac allograft disease. Circulation. 2006 Oct 10;114(15):1608-15.
Potena L, Holweg CT, Chin C, Luikart H, Weisshaar D, Narasimhan B, Fearon WF, Lewis DB, Cooke JP, Mocarski ES, Valantine HA. Acute rejection and cardiac allograft vascular disease is reduced by suppression of subclinical cytomegalovirus infection. Transplantation. 2006 Aug 15;82(3):398-405.
Chin C, Naftel D, Pahl E, Shankel T, Clark ML, Gamberg P, Kirklin J, Webber S; Pediatric Heart Transplant Study. Cardiac re-transplantation in pediatrics: a multi-institutional study. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2006 Dec;25(12):1420-4.
Chin C, Naftel DC, Singh TP, Blume ED, Luikart H, Bernstein D, Gamberg
P, Kirklin JK, Morrow WR, Pediatric Heart Transplant Study Group. Risk
factors for recurrent rejection in pediatric heart transplantation: a
multicenter experience. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2004 Feb;23(2):178-85.
James F. Cnota, MD
Director of Fetal Echocardiography/Cardiology
Director of Fetal Echocardiography/Cardiology
Phone 513-636-1199
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Congenital heart disease; echocardiography; fetal cardiology; Cardiology Consult Service; General Cardiology Outpatient Clinic; Interstage Program
Multicenter clinical studies; perinatal outcomes in congenital heart disease
Dr. Cnota is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children's Hospital. His patient care activities focus on echocardiography and fetal cardiology. He is currently director of the Neonatal Cardiology service.
His clinical research focuses on two areas. He is the site principal investigator of the Prairieland Consortium within the NHLBI sponsored Pediatric Heart Network. He also studies growth and development in the fetus with congenital heart disease.
BS: Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1991.
MD: Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1995.
Residency: University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona, 1998.
Fellowship: Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2001.
MS: Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 2005.
Votava-Smith JK, Habli M, Cnota JF, Divanovic A, Polzin W, Lim FY, Michelfelder EC. Diastolic Dysfunction and Cerebrovascular Redistribution Precede Overt Recipient Twin Cardiomyopathy in Early-Stage Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2015 Jan 7.
Frommelt PC, Gerstenberger E, Cnota JF, Cohen MS, Gorentz J, Hill KD, John JB, Levine JC, Lu J, Mahle WT, McCandless RT, Mertens L, Pearson GD, Spencer C, Thacker D, Williams IA, Wong PC, Newburger JW, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators. Impact of initial shunt type on cardiac size and function in children with single right ventricle anomalies before the Fontan procedure: the single ventricle reconstruction extension trial. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014 Nov 11;64(19):2026-35.
Weaver KN, Wang D, Cnota J, Gardner N, Stabley D, Sol-Church K, Gripp KW, Witte DP, Bove KE, Hopkin RJ. Early-lethal Costello syndrome due to rare HRAS Tandem Base substitution (c.35_36GC>AA; p.G12E)-associated pulmonary vascular disease. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2014 Nov-Dec;17(6):421-30.
Czosek RJ, Cnota JF, Knilans TK, Pratt J, Guerrier K, Anderson JB. Relationship between echocardiographic LV mass and ECG based left ventricular voltages in an adolescent population: related or random? Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2014 Sep;37(9):1133-40.
Butts RJ, Zak V, Hsu D, Cnota J, Colan SD, Hehir D, Kantor P, Levine JC, Margossian R, Richmond M, Szwast A, Williams D, Williams R, Atz AM. Factors associated with serum B-type natriuretic peptide in infants with single ventricles. Pediatr Cardiol. 2014 Jun;35(5):879-87.
Villa CR, Habli M, Votava-Smith JK, Cnota JF, Lim FY, Divanovic AA, Wang Y, Michelfelder EC. Assessment of fetal cardiomyopathy in early-stage twin-twin transfusion syndrome: comparison between commonly reported cardiovascular assessment scores. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2014 Jun;43(6):646-51.
Sekar P, Heydarian HC, Cnota JF, Hornberger LK, Michelfelder EC. Diagnosis of congenital heart disease in an era of universal prenatal ultrasound screening in southwest Ohio. Cardiol Young. 2015 Jan;25(1):35-41.
Marx GR, Shirali G, Levine JC, Guey LT, Cnota JF, Baffa JM, Border WL, Colan S, Ensing G, Friedberg MK, Goldberg DJ, Idriss SF, John JB, Lai WW, Lu M, Menon SC, Ohye RG, Saudek D, Wong PC, Pearson GD, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators. Multicenter study comparing shunt type in the norwood procedure for single-ventricle lesions: three-dimensional echocardiographic analysis. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2013 Nov;6(6):934-42.
Michelfelder E, Tan X, Cnota J, Divanovic A, Statile C, Lim FY, Crombleholme T. Prevalence, Spectrum, and Outcome of Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Abnormalities in Twin-twin Transfusion Syndrome: A Large, Single-center Experience. Congenit Heart Dis. 2014 Aug 25.
Cnota JF, Hangge PT, Wang Y, Woo JG, Hinton AC, Divanovic AA, Michelfelder EC, Hinton RB. Somatic growth trajectory in the fetus with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Pediatr Res. 2013 Sep;74(3):284-9.
Chad Connor, MD
Staff Physician, Division of Cardiology, Electrophysiology and CICU
Staff Physician, Division of Cardiology, Electrophysiology and CICU
Chief Consultant for Pediatric Cardiology to AF Surgeon General USAF
Associate Professor, N/A
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Phone 734-255-0861
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
BS: US Air Force Academy, CO, 1998.
MD: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2002.
Residency: Travis AFB, CA, 2005.
Fellowship: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008.
David S. Cooper, MD, MPH
Chief Safety Officer, Heart Institute
Chief Safety Officer, Heart Institute
Associate Medical Director, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
Co-Director, Center for Acute Care Nephrology
Medical Director, Cardiac Extracorporeal Life Support Program
Director of Cardiac Intensive Care
Phone 513-803-5448
Email email@example.com
Pediatric cardiac critical care; patient safety; extracorporeal life support
Acute/chronic kidney injury; anticoagulation on extracorporeal support; abnormal sleep patterns in patients with congenital heart disease; antibiotic stewardship in the CVICU; correlation of near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and outcome in the cardiovascular intensive care unit; quality and outcomes in the CICU
Dr. Cooper is board certified in pediatrics, pediatric cardiology and pediatric critical care. He is currently the Heart Institute safety officer, co-director of the Center for Acute Care Nephrology, director of the Cardiac ECMO Program and associate medical director of the CICU at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Dr. Cooper's career over the past 10 years has focused on the care of critically ill neonates, infants, children, adolescents and adults with complex congenital heart disease (CHD). He has a particular interest in how care in the intensive care unit can impact morbidity with a specific interest in hematologic, infectious and renal morbidities. Additionally, Dr. Cooper has had extensive involvement with the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4), including the development of the PC4 CICU database that will be used to track outcomes and improve outcomes for patients with critical cardiac disease.
MD: University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, 1996.
MPH: University of South Florida College of Public Health, Tampa, Florida, 1999.
Residency: All Children's Hospital, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.
Fellowships: Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH; Critical Care, Children's Medical Center Dallas, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas.
Certifications: American Board of Pediatrics; American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-board of Pediatric Cardiology; American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-board of Pediatric Critical Care.
DeSena HC, Nelson DP, Cooper DS. Cardiac Intensive Care for the Neonate and Child After Cardiac Surgery. Current Opinion in Cardiology. 2015 Jan;30(1):81-8.
Kwiatkowski DM, Menon S, Krawczeski CD, Goldstein SL, Morales DL, Philips A, Manning PB, Eghtesady P, Wang Y, Nelson DP, Cooper DS. Improved Outcomes with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Placement after Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Infants. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2015 Jan;149(1):230-6.
Gaies M, Cooper DS, Tabbutt S, Schwartz SM, Ghanayem N, Chanani NK, Costello JM, Thiagarajan RR, Laussen PC, Shekerdemian LS, Donohue JE, Willis GM, Gaynor JW, Jacobs JP, Ohye RG, Charpie JR, Pasquali SK, Scheurer MA. Collaborative quality improvement in the cardiac intensive care unit: development of the Paediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4). Cardiol Young. 2014 Aug;28:1-7.
Jolley M, Thiagarajan R, Salvin J, Barrett C, Cooper DS, Teele S. ECMO in Patients with Superior Cavopulmonary Anastomosis (Glenn). Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2014;148(4):1512-8.
Costello JM, Pasquali SK, He X, Jacobs JP, Hill KD, Cooper DS, Baker CL, Jacobs ML. Gestational Age at Birth and Outcomes after Neonatal Cardiac Surgery: An Analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Congenital Heart Surgery Database. Circulation. 2014;129:2511-2517.
Tabbutt S, Ghanayem N, Ravishankar C, Sleeper LA, Cooper DS, Frank DU, Lu M, Pizarro C, Frommelt P, Goldberg CS, Graham EM, Krawczeski CD, Lai WW, Lewis A, Kirsh JA, Mahony L, Ohye RG, Simsic J, Lodge AJ, Spurrier E, Stylianou M, Laussen P, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators. Risk factors for hospital morbidity and mortality after the Norwood procedure: A report from the Pediatric Heart Network Single Ventricle Reconstruction trial. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2012 Oct;144(4):882-95.
Ghanayem NS, Allen KR, Tabbutt S, Atz AM, Clabby ML, Cooper DS, Eghtesady P, Frommelt PC, Gruber PJ, Hill KD, Kaltman JR, Laussen PC, Lewis AB, Lurito KJ, Minich LL, Ohye RG, Schonbeck JV, Schwartz SM, Singh RK, Goldberg CS, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators. Interstage mortality after the Norwood procedure: Results of the multicenter Single Ventricle Reconstruction trial. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2012 Oct;144(4):896-906.
Cooper DS, Charpie JR, Flores FX, Gaynor JW, Salvin JW, Devarajan P, Krawczeski CD. Acute kidney injury and critical cardiac disease. World J Ped Congen Heart Surg. 2011;2:411-423.
Jacobs JP, Asante-Korang A, O'Brien SM, Chai PJ, Dadlani GH, Rodriguez-Fazzi GL, Vu D, McCormack J, McKenna DE, Boucek RJ Jr, Cooper DS, Saltiel A, Carapellucci J, van Gelder HM, Daicoff GR, Quintessenza JA. Lessons learned from 119 consecutive cardiac transplants for pediatric and congenital heart disease. Ann Thorac Surg. 2011 Apr;91(4):1248-54.
Pilchard J, Dadlani G, Andropoulos D, Jacobs JP and Cooper DS. Intensive care and perioperative management of patients with complete atrioventricular septal defect. World J Ped Congen Heart Surg. 2010 Apr;1:105-111.
Evaluation of the Pharmacokinetics of ATIII in Neonates and Infants Undergoing CPB and ECMO Support. Principal Investigator. Grifols. 2014-present.
A Randomized, Placebo Controlled, Multi-Center Study of the Efficacy, Pharmacokinetics (PK) and Pharmacodynamics (PD) of Intravenous (IV) Acetaminophen for the Treatment of Acute Pain in Pediatric Patients. Site Principal Investigator. Cadence. 2014-present.
Use of acute kidney injury biomarkers to predict impaired milrinone pharmacokinetics in children. Mentor. Thrasher grant. 2013-present.
Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) Research Grant. Principal Investigator. Extracorporeal Life Support Organization. 2012-present.
Richard J. Czosek, MD
Phone 513-636-2237
BS: University of Georgia, 1997.
MD: Medical College of of Georgia, 2001.
Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Cincinnati, OH.
Cardiology Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Fellowship Subspecialty Training: Pediatric Pacing and Electrophysiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Walsh MA, Grenier MA, Jefferies JL, Towbin JA, Lorts A, Czosek RJ. Conduction Abnormalities in Pediatric Patients with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy. Circ Heart Fail. 2012 Mar 1;5(2):267-73.
Walsh MA, Anderson JB, Knilans TK, Cottrill CM, Czosek RJ. Ventricular "Oversensing" in a Biventricular Pacemaker. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2012 Aug;35(8):1014-7.
Czosek RJ, Meganathan K, Anderson JB, Knilans TK, Marino BS, Heaton PC. Cardiac rhythm devices in the pediatric population: Utilization and complications. Heart Rhythm. 2012 Feb;9(2):199-208.
Czosek RJ, Anderson JB, Marino BS, Mellion K, Knilans TK. Noninvasive risk stratification techniques in pediatric patients with ventricular preexcitation. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2011;34:555-562.
Czosek RJ, Haaning A, Ware SM. A mouse model of conduction system patterning abnormalities in heterotaxy syndrome. Pediatr Res. 2010;68:275-280.
Czosek RJ, Atallah J, Emani S, Hasan B, del Nido P, Berul CI. Electrical dyssynchrony and endocardial fibroelastosis resection in the rehabilitation of hypoplastic left cardiac syndrome. Cardiol Young. 2010;20:516-52.
Czosek RJ, Anderson JB, Cao J, Knilans TK. Assessment of t-wave oversensing in an infant with an implanted defibrillator. Heart Rhythm. 2010;7:1516-1517
Czosek RJ, Anderson J, Marino BS, Connor C, Knilans TK. Linear lesion cryoablation for the treatment of atrioventricular nodal re-entry tachycardia in pediatrics and young adults. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2010;33:1304-131.
Czosek RJ, Anderson J, Connor C, Knilans T. Nodoventricular pathway associated with twin AV nodes: Complexity of ablation in single ventricle physiology. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2010;21:936-939.
Czosek RJ, Berul CI. Congenital long-QT syndrome concealed by hypercalcemia in Williams syndrome. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2008;19:1322-1324.
Holly C. DeSena, MD
Phone 513-803-7442
Email email@example.com
Cardiac clinical care
Post-operative management of single ventricle patients
: Loyola University of Chicago, Maywood, IL, 2007.
: Pediatrics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX; Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX.
Certification: Pediatrics, 2010.
DeSena HC, Veeram Reddy SR, Welch T, Wang J, Forbess J, Nugent AW. Morphology of Inter Atrial Defects Created by Interventional Techniques in a Neonatal Animal Model. Pediatr Cardiol. 2014 Mar;35(3):381-5.
Hoyt WJ Jr, Thomas PE, DeSena HC, Steinberg JS, Harmon DE, Snyder CS. Atrial Fibrillation Induction by Transesophageal Electrophysiology Studies in Patients with Asymptomatic Ventricular Preexcitation. Congenit Heart Dis. 2013 Jan-Feb;8(1):57-61.
DeSena HC, Ramaciotti C, and Nugent AW. Atherotome Dislodgement and Successful Retrieval During Cutting Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2012 Jun;5(3):e37-8.
Allison A. Divanovic, MD
Co-Director, Medical Student/Resident Education, Heart Institute
Co-Director, Medical Student/Resident Education, Heart Institute
Phone 513-636-3867
Fax 513-636-9747
Email email@example.com
Pediatric cardiology; fetal and neonatal cardiology; echocardiography
Echocardiographic predictors of cardiac involvement in the fetus with twin-twin transfusion syndrome; risk factors for intrauterine fetal demise in the fetus with congenital heart disease; improvement in the prenatal identification of fetal coarctation; prediction of atrial septal restriction in the fetus with HLHS
Allison A. Divanovic, MD, is an assistant professor of pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and is currently the co-director of Medical Student and Resident Education in the Heart Institute.
A native of Cincinnati, Dr. Divanovic has completed all of her medical training locally, starting with medical school at the University of Cincinnati. She completed both her pediatric residency and cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. In addition to her three year cardiology fellowship, she completed a fourth year of training in order to gain further expertise in fetal echocardiography, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, and neonatal cardiology.
Dr. Divanovic has been an attending staff member in the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center since 2009. Her academic interests include identifying factors that affect outcome in the setting of fetal congenital heart disease, improving the diagnosis of coarctation and hypoplastic left heart syndrome with restrictive atrial septum prior to birth and the cost effectiveness of referrals for murmur evaluations in children. In addition, Dr. Divanovic worked with the Ohio State Legislature to help pass into law the bill which led to the requirement for pulse oximetry screening in all Ohio newborns.
Dr. Divanovic has been active in the pediatric and cardiology communities as a member of the American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
MD: Univeristy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Michelfelder E, Tan X, Cnota J, Divanovic A, Statile C, Lim FY, Crombleholme T. Prevalence, Spectrum and Outcome of Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Abnormalities in Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome: A Large, Single-Center Experience. Congenit Heart Dis. 2014 Aug 25.
Villa CR, Habli M, Votava-Smith JK, Cnota JF, Lim FY, Divanovic AA, Wang Y, Michelfelder EC. Assessment of Fetal Cardiomyopathy in Early Stage Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome: Comparison between Commonly Reported Cardiovascular Assessment Scores. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2014 Jun;43(6):646:51.
Cnota JF, Hangge PT, Wang Y, Woo JG, Hinton AC, Divanovic AA, Michelfelder EC, Hinton RB. Somatic Growth Trajectory in the Fetus with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Pediatr Res. 2013 Sep;74(3):284-9.
Hangge P, Cnota JF, Woo JG, Hinton AC, Divanovic AA, Manning PB, Ittenbach RF, Hinton RB. Microcephaly is Associated with Early Adverse Neurologic Outcomes in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Pediatr Res. 2013 Jul;74(1):61-7.
Statile CJ, Cnota JF, Gomien S, Divanović A, Crombleholme T,
Michelfelder E. The Relationship between Estimated Cardiac Output and
Cardiovascular Profile Score in High Output Lesions in the Fetus.
Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2013 Jan:41(1):54-8.
Divanović A, Witte D, Michelfelder E. A Fetus with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and Tricuspid Stenosis with Evolving Hydrops Fetalis. Pediatr Cardiol. 2012 Oct;33(7):1210-12.
Sheridan RM, Michelfelder EC, Choe KA, Divanovic A, Ware S, Liu C, Stanek JW. Ductus Arteriosus Aneurysm with Massive Thrombosis of Pulmonary Artery. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2012 Jan-Feb;15(1):79-85.
Divanović A, Cnota J, Ittenbach R, Tan X, Border W, Crombleholme T, Michelfelder E. Characterization of Diastolic Dysfunction in Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome: Association between Doppler Findings and Ventricular Hypertrophy. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2011 Aug;24(8):834-40.
Divanović A, Hor K, Cnota J, Hirsch R, Kinsel-Ziter M, Michelfelder E. Prediction and Perinatal Management of Severely Restrictive Atrial Septum in Fetuses with Critical Left Heart Obstruction: Clinical Experience Using Pulmonary Venous Doppler Analysis. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2011 Apr;141(4):988-94.
Bryan H. Goldstein, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FAAP
Associate Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Associate Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Phone 513-636-7072
Fax 513-636-2410
Email email@example.com
Cardiac catheterization; intervention for congenital heart disease; transcatheter valve implantation; single ventricle physiology; interventional catheterization; General Cardiology Outpatient Clinic; Interstage Program
Bryan H. Goldstein, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FAAP, joined the Heart Institute in 2011 in the section of Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention. A native of Boston, Mass., Dr. Goldstein graduated with honors from Amherst College, where he was a goalie on the men's lacrosse team. He earned his medical degree with honors from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his pediatric residency at Children's Hospital Boston (BCRP) and his pediatric and interventional cardiology fellowships at the University of Michigan (C.S. Mott Children's Hospital) in Ann Arbor.
Dr. Goldstein's clinical expertise is in congenital cardiac catheterization. He is interested in invasive physiologic assessment of complex congenital heart disease (CHD), including single ventricle physiology, as well as minimally invasive transcatheter therapies. Dr. Goldstein has particular clinical interests in transcatheter valve therapy and innovative hybrid therapies
Dr. Goldstein's research interests include novel transcatheter interventions and long-term outcomes following interventions for CHD. An additional research focus includes long-term functional outcomes in Fontan survivors, including investigations of vascular function and ventricular diastolic function in the Fontan population. Dr. Goldstein receives grant funding from the American Heart Association and NHLBI. He is a co-investigator for the Nit-Occlud® PDA Post-Approval Study and previously served as a co-investigator for the Melody™ Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Post-Approval Study.
Dr. Goldstein is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC), the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI), and the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP) and an active member of the American Heart Association (AHA). He received the Pediatric Interventional Cardiology Symposium Young Leadership Award in 2013 and was recently honored with election to the Emerging Leader Mentorship program 2015-2017 through SCAI, ACC and CRF.
MD: Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 2004.
Residency: Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, 2007.
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, 2010.
Advanced Fellowship: Interventional Cardiology, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, 2011.
Certifications: Pediatrics, 2007; Pediatric Cardiology, 2010.
Lin H, Desai S, Nicolas R, Guavreau K, Foerster S, Sharma A, Armsby L, Odegard K DiNardo J, Vincent J, El-Said H, Goldstein BH, Holzer R, Balzer D, Bergersen L. Sedation and Anesthesia Related Adverse Events in Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Catheterization. Pediatr Cardiol. 2015.
Seckeler M, Hirsch R, Beekman RH III, Goldstein BH. A New Predictive Equation for Oxygen Consumption in Children and Adults with Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease. Heart. 2015 Apr 1;101(7)517-24.
Karani KB, Zafar F, Morales DLS, Goldstein BH. Hybrid Stage I Palliation in a 1.1 Kilogram 28 Week Preterm Neonate with Posterior Malalignment Ventricular Septal Defect, Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction and Coarctation of the Aorta. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2014 Oct;5(4):603-7.
Zampi JD, Hirsch-Romano JC, Goldstein BH, Shaya JA, Armstrong AK. Hybrid Approach for Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum: Early Single Center Results and Comparison to the Standard Surgical Approach. Catheter Cardiovasc Inter. 2014 Apr 1;83(5):753-61.
Zampi JD, Hirsch JC, Goldstein BH, Armstrong AK. Use of a Pressure Guidewire to Assess Pulmonary Artery Band Adequacy in the Hybrid Stage I Procedure for High Risk Neonates with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and Variants. Congenit Heart Dis. 2013 Mar-Apr;8(2):149-58.
Goldstein BH, Hirsch R, Zussman M, Vincent JA, Torres A, Coulson J, Ringel RE, Beekman RH III. Percutaneous Balloon-Expandable Covered Stent Implantation for Treatment of Traumatic Aortic Injury in Children and Adolescents. Am J Cardiol. 2012 Nov 15;110(10):1541-5.
Goldstein BH, Golbus JR, Sandelin AM, Warnke N, Gooding L, King KK, Donohue JE, Yu S, Gurney JG, Goldberg CS, Rocchini AP, Charpie JR. Impact of Vitamin C on Endothelial Function and Exercise Capacity in Patients with a Fontan Circulation. Congenit Heart Dis. 2011.
Goldstein BH, Fifer CG, Armstrong AK, Gelehrter SK, Treadwell MC, van de Ven C, Rocchini AP. Use of a Pressure Guidewire in Fetal Cardiac Intervention for Critical Aortic Stenosis. Pediatrics. 2011 Aug 15.
Goldstein BH, Golbus JR, Sandelin AM, Warnke N, Gooding L, King KK, Donohue JE, Gurney JG, Goldberg CS, Rocchini AP, Charpie JR. Usefulness of Peripheral Vascular Function to Predict Functional Health Status in Patients with a Fontan Circulation. Am J Cardiol. 2011 Aug 1;108(3):428-34.
Goldstein BH, Connor C, Gooding L, Rocchini AP. Relation of Systemic Venous Return, Diastolic Dysfunction and Pulmonary Vascular Resistance to Exercise Capacity in Patients with Single Ventricle Receiving Fontan Palliation. Am J Cardiol. 2010 Apr 15;105(8):1169-75.
Stuart L. Goldstein, MD, FAAP, FNKF
Director, Center for Acute Care Nephrology
Director, Center for Acute Care Nephrology
Medical Director, Pheresis Service
Co-Medical Director, Heart Institute Research Core
Medical Director, Dialysis Unit
Phone 513-803-3295
Fax 513-636-6407
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Acute kidney injury; continuous renal replacement therapy; cardio-renal syndrome; nephrotoxic medication associated morbidity
Acute kidney injury epidemiology and biomarkers; heart failure associated chronic kidney disease; nephrotoxic medication associated acute kidney injury reduction
Stuart L. Goldstein, MD, has been an active investigator in the field of pediatric acute kidney injury (AKI) since 2000. Dr. Goldstein's main research foci include: AKI epidemiology and outcomes, acute renal replacement therapy provision and investigation of novel urinary AKI biomarkers in the pediatric population. Dr. Goldstein has established a strong record of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration with cardiologists, intensivists and emergency center physicians, which is evidenced by his establishment and directing of the Prospective Pediatric Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Registry from 2001 to 2012, and the Prospective Pediatric AKI Research Group (ppAKI-RG) in 2012. The ppAKI-RG is comprised of 39 centers from around the world with the goal of improving outcomes for the child with or at-risk for, AKI.
Dr. Goldstein has led initial efforts to develop a standardized definition for pediatric AKI, assess novel AKI biomarkers in heterogeneous populations, and conceiving and validating stratification tools to identify patients at risk for AKI. Building up these findings, Dr. Goldstein embarked on establishing the ppAKI-RG consortium to focus on multi-centered research studies that are dedicated to understanding and treating AKI in pediatric patients. Currently, the ppAKI-RG has initiated three major, and unprecedented, national and international studies (AWARE, NINJA and DIRECT) to reduce AKI and improve patient outcomes. Dr. Goldstein is also a recognized educator; he has developed the only pediatric specific acute care nephrology sub-specialty fellowship with graduates who are now leaders in the field of pediatric AKI.
MD: Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, 1990.
Residency: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Fellowship: Pediatric Nephrology, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Inflammation, malnutrition and cardiac calcification in pediatric ESRD patients receiving dialysis. Principal Investigator. Casey Lee Ball Foundation. Jan 2010–Dec 2020.
Use of NGAL to Optimize Fluid Dosing, CRRT Initiation and Discontinuation in Critically Ill Children with Acute Kidney Injury. Principal Investigator. Gambro Renal Products. Nov 2011-Jan 2017.
Clinical Evaluation of the Prismaflex™ HF20 Set and Prismaflex™Control Unit Version 5.10 Software for Acute Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) in Children. Principal Investigator. Gambro Renal Products, Inc. Mar 2014–Mar 2016.
Pharmacokinetics of Understudied Drugs Administered to Children per Standard of Care. Principal Investigator. NICHD Pediatric Trials Network-POPS. Feb 2013–Feb 2017.
Antibiotic Safety in Infants with Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infections (SCAMP Trial). Principal Investigator. NICHD-2013-ABS01 Pediatric Trials Network. May 2014–Sep 2017.
Recombinant Erythropoietin Protects Against Kidney Disease. Principal Investigator. National Institutes of Health. Sep 2014–Aug 2019.
Reduction of Nephrotoxic Medication Associated Acute Kidney Injury in Children: Dissemination of a Successful Quality Improvement Project. Principal Investigator. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Apr 2015–Mar 2018.
Eunice Hahn, MD
Attending Physician, The Heart Institute
Attending Physician, The Heart Institute
Attending Physician, Fetal Heart Program
Phone 513-803-4538
Congenital heart disease; echocardiography; fetal echocardiography; fetal cardiology; Cardiology Consult Service; General Cardiology Outpatient Clinic
Pediatric cardiology; echocardiography; fetal echocardiography
Eunice Hahn is an assistant professor of pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She is a faculty member that specializes in cardiac imaging.
Dr. Hahn earned her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University. She completed her pediatric internship and residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and pediatric cardiology fellowship at Columbia-New York Presbyterian Hospital. She completed an advanced imaging fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Her clinical and research focus relates to cardiac imaging by echocardiography and fetal echocardiography.
MD: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.
Residency: Pediatrics, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT.
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, Columbia-New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY.
Advanced Imaging Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Hahn E, Szwast A, Cnota J, Levince JC, Fifer CG, Jaeggi E, Andrews H, Williams IA. The association of fetal growth, cerebral blood flow, and neurodevelopmental outcome in single ventricle fetuses. Accepted to Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 13 April 2015.
Hahn E, Zuckerman WA, Chen JM, Singh RK, Addonizio LJ, Richmond ME. An echocardiographic measurement of superior vena cava to inferior vena cava distance in patients less than 20 years of age with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. American Journal of Cardiology. 2014 Apr 15:113(8):1405-8.
Hahn E, Vincent JA, Kadenhe-Chiweshe A, Ratner V, Krishnamurthy G. Emergent transcatheter relief of bronchus compression by an ectatic ductus arteriosus in a premature neonate: a case report. J Neonatal Perinatal Medicine. 2013 Jan 1;6(4)349-53.
Wynn J, Krishnan U, Aspelund G, Zhang Y, Duong J, Stolar CJ, Hahn E, Pietsch J, Chung D, Moore D, Austin E, Mychaliska G, Gajarski R, Foong YL, Michelfelder E, Potolka D, Warner B, Grady M, Azarow K, Fletcher SE, Kutty S, Delaney J, Crombleholme T, Rosenzweig E, Chung W, Arkovitz MS. Outcomes of congenital diaphragmatic hernia in the modern era of management. The Journal of Pediatrics. 2013 Jan 30.
Garcia AV, Fingeret AS, Thirumoorthi AS, Hahn E, Aspelund G, Krishnan US, Stolar CJH. Lung to head ratio in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia does not predict long term pulmonary hypertension. The Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2013 Jan;48(1):154-7.
Brickman AM, Buchsbaum MS, Ivanov Z, Borod JC, Foldi, NS, Hahn E, Mitelman SA, Hazlett EA, Lincoln SJ, Newmark RE, Shihabuddin L. Internal capsule size in good and poor outcome schizophrenia. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 2006 Summer; 18(3) 364-76.
Samuel P. Hanke, MD
Quality Scholar in Healthcare Transformation, James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence
Quality Scholar in Healthcare Transformation, James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence
Phone 513-803-4574
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Inpatient and general cardiology; Cardiac Step-Down Unit; General Cardiology Outpatient Clinic; Interstage Program
Quality improvement; hospital care transitions; readmission
Dr. Hanke is an assistant professor in clinical pediatrics in the Heart Institute and a quality scholar in healthcare transformation with the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence at Cincinnati Children's within the UC Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Hanke received his medical degree from the University of Louisville and completed his pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children's. He later served as pediatric chief resident before completing a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Cincinnati Children's.
His clinical areas of interest are as cardiac hospitalist and general outpatient cardiologist. Currently his research is in hospital care transitions, evaluating their potential impact on hospital readmissions in patients with congenital heart disease. Additionally, he is focused on the prevention of sleep related deaths in infancy and highly active in safe sleep education and advocacy.
BS: University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 2002.
MD: University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2006.
Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2009.
Chief Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2010.
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2010-2013.
Certification: Pediatrics, 2009.
Haleh C. Heydarian, MD
Cardiologist, Cardiology Clinic
Cardiologist, Cardiology Clinic
Director, Interstage Program
Director, Neurodevelopment and Education Clinic
Phone 513-636-6646
Fax 513-636-3982
Echocardiography; fetal echocardiography; Cardiac Step-Down Unit; Interstage Program; Neurodevelopment and Education Clinic; General Cardiology Outpatient Clinic
Dyssynchrony; quality improvement
MD: Marshall University, Huntington, WV.
Residency: Pediatrics, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH.
Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH.
Russel Hirsch, MD
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Service
Percutaneous interventions for the palliation or treatment of congenital heart disease; treatment of all forms of pediatric pulmonary hypertension; interventional catheterization; pulmonary hypertension; General Cardiology Outpatient Clinic
Device closure of congenital heart defects; feasibility of covered stent use in coarctation of the aorta; pulmonary vascular complications associated with congenital diaphragmatic hernia and chronic lung disease; cardiac manifestations of post bone-marrow transplant thrombotic microangiopathy; non-invasive evaluation of pulmonary hypertension in pediatric age patients; validation of new methods for assessing oxygen consumption in the cardiac catheterization laboratory
MBChB: University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Residency: St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO.
Fellowship: St. Louis Children's Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Certification: Pediatrics, 1994, 2002 (renew); Pediatric Cardiology, 1998, 2005.
Flores S, Daily J, Pratap JN, Cash MC, Hirsch R. Management of a child with pulmonary arterial hypertension presenting with a systemic hypertension. Cardiol Young. 2015 Jun 17;1-4.
Seckeler M, Hirsch R, Beekman R, Goldstein B. A new predictive equation for oxygen consumption in children and adults with congenital and acquired heart disease. Heart. 2015 Apr;101(7):517-24.
Dandoy C, Davies S, Hirsch R, Chima R, Paff Z, Cash M, Ryan T, Lane A,El-Bietar J, Myers K, Jodele S. Abnormal echocardiography seven days after stem cell transplant may be an early indicator of thrombotic microangiopathy. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 2015 Jan;21(1):113-8.
Aiyagari R, Rhodes JF, Shrader P, Radtke W, Bandisode VM, Bergersen L, Gillespie MJ, Gray RG, Guey LT, Hill KD, Hirsch R, Kim DW, Lee KJ, Pelech A, Ringewald J, Takao C, Vincent JA, Ohye RG. Impact of Pre-Stage II Hemodynamics and Pulmonary Artery Anatomy on 12-Month Outcome in the Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2014 Oct;148(4):1467-74.
Zussman M, Hirsch R, Beekman R, Goldstein B. Impact of percutaneous interventions for pulmonary artery stenosis in Alagille syndrome. Congenital Heart Disease. 2014 Sep 16.
Seckeler MD, Hirsch R, Beekman RH 3rd, Goldstein BH. Validation of cardiac output using real-time measurement of oxygen consumption during cardiac catheterization in children under 3 years of age. Congenit Heart Dis. 2014 Jul-Aug;9(4):307-15.
Seckeler M, Villa C, Hirsch R. Percutaneous Recanalization of Occluded Brachiocephalic Vein-Superior Vena Cava Connection After Resection of Mediastinal Mass. JACC Intervention. 2014 Jul;7(7):e69-70.
Dandoy C, Lerner D, Hirsch R, Laskin B, Davies S, Jodele S. Pericardial Effusion in Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Recipients with Thrombotic Microangiopathy. Bone Marrow Transplantation. 2014 Jun;862–863.
Lorts A, Hirsch R. Development and recognition of cardiopulmonary complications in a child with cirrhosis: The heart in chronic liver disease. Clinical Liver Disease. 2013 Oct 30;(2):207-209.
Dandoy C, Hirsch R, Chima R, Davies SM, Jodele S. Pulmonary Hypertension after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2013 Nov;19(11):1546-1556.
Ilias D. Iliopoulos, MD
Attending Cardiac Intensivist, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
MD: Aristotle University Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1997.
Residency: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, London, UK, 2005.
Fellowship: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Royal London Hospital and Homerton Hospital, London, UK, 2008.
Pediatric Intensive Care: Evelina Children's Hospital, Guy's and St. Thomas Hospital, London, UK, 2009.
Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care: Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK, 2010-2011.
Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Fellowship: Miami Children's Hospital, Miami, FL, 2012.
Holly M. Ippisch, MD, MS
Email email@example.com
Echocardiography; congenital heart disease; preventive cardiology; pediatric obesity
Non-Invasive cardiac imaging modalities and techniques; cardiovascular effects of pediatric obesity; cardiovascular effects of exercise
Holly M. Ippisch, MD, has been an attending staff member of the Division of Cardiology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, since 2005.
Dr. Ippisch's clinical subspecialty interests include echocardiography, congenital heart disease, preventive cardiology and pediatric obesity. She has clinics for the treatment of hyperlipidemia and hypertension.
Dr. Ippisch is a native of Ohio and completed her medical degree at Wright State University. She completed her pediatric internship and residency at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital in Loma Linda, California and completed her pediatric cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children's.
Dr. Ippisch's academic research interests relate to echocardiography, preventive cardiology, and pediatric obesity. She is a faculty member of the Cardiovascular Imaging Core Research Laboratory. She has given several presentations at national meetings relating to both the cardiac effects of pediatric obesity and to newer imaging modalities such as color M-mode and tissue Doppler imaging for assessing diastolic function. She is also a reviewer for the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography.
Dr. Ippisch is also a cardiologist for the multidisciplinary Comprehensive Weight Management Center team. As part of this team she evaluates and treats cardiovascular diseases in extremely overweight adolescents before and after bariatric surgery. She is also a research cardiologist for the CWMC Team with special interests in scientific studies related to this population.
Dr. Ippisch is an alumni of the National Institutes of Health funded Master's Training Program. As part of this competitive program Dr. Ippisch concurrently completed a Master of Epidemiology Fellowship at the University of Cincinnati while attending her Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at Cincinnati Children's. She has established collaborative relationships with faculty at the University of Cincinnati Department of Environmental Health.
Dr. Ippisch is an active member of the cardiology community. She is a member of the American Society of Echocardiography, Society of Pediatric Echocardiography, American Heart Association and Council of Cardiovascular Disease in the Young.
Dr. Ippisch is also active in community service as the volunteer associate medical director for the Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon which is an event partially sponsored by Cincinnati Children's.
BS: Wright State University, Biology, Dayton, OH, 1990.
MD: Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 1997.
Residency: Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, 1997 – 2000.
Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, 2001 – 2004.
Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, 2004 – 2005.
MS: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2006.
Certification: Board Certified Pediatrics, Board Eligible Pediatric Cardiology.
Additional Certification: Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS).
Licensure: State Medical Board of Ohio.
Crowley DI, Khoury PR, Urbina EM, Ippisch HM, Kimball TR. Cardiovascular Impact of the Pediatric Obesity Epidemic: Higher Left Ventricular Mass is Related to Higher Body Mass Index. J Pediatr. 2010 Dec 11.
Shah AS, Khoury PR, Dolan LM, Ippisch HM, Urbina EM, Daniels SR, Kimball TR. The effects of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus on cardiac structure and function in adolescents and young adults. Diabetologia. 2010 Nov 18.
Ippisch HM, Kimball TR. Anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the left ventricle. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2010 Feb;23(2):222.e1-2.
Ippisch HM, Inge TH, Daniels SR, Wang B, Khoury PR, Witt SA, Glascock BJ, Garcia VF, Kimball TR. Reversibility of cardiac abnormalities in morbidly obese adolescents. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008 Apr 8;51(14):1342-8.
Ippisch HM, Kimball TR. The impact of evolving hand-carried echocardiographic technology on outpatient physical examination accuracy in pediatric cardiology. Congenit Heart Dis. 2007 May;2(3):170-8.
Hao M, Ippisch HM, Cook RS, Perry DJ, Gottliebson WM, Hirsch R, Kimball TR. Implementation of an objective testing system in noninvasive cardiac imaging for evaluation of pediatric cardiology fellows. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2007 Oct;20(10):1211-8.
Ippisch HM, Border WL, Witt SA, Glascock BJ, Khoury PR, Kimball TR. Diastolic function in obese children assessed by tissue Doppler imaging. 52nd Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology. Chicago, IL. March 31, 2003.
Ippisch HM, Kimball TR. Hand-carried cardiac ultrasound compared to conventional ultrasound for the evaluation of congenital heart disease. 14th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Society of Echocardiography. Las Vegas, NV. June 13, 2003.
Ippisch HM, Witt SA, Border WL, Glascock BJ, Khoury PR, Daniels SR, Kimball TR. Does a Weight Loss Reduction Program Improve Cardiac Dysfunction in Obese Children? American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions. Orlando, Florida. November 12th, 2003.
Ippisch HM, Witt SA, Glascock BJ, Mays W, Knecht S, Forment Y, Claytor R, Knilans TK, Daniels SR, Kimball TR. Do Cardiac Function and Exercise Performance Change In Obese Children Following Participation In A Weight Loss Program? 15th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Society of Echocardiography. San Diego, CA. June 28th, 2004.
Jeanne M. James, MD
Director of the Fellowship Program
Director of the Fellowship Program
Director of Cardiovascular Genetics
Phone 513-636-4888
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Cardiovascular genetics; echocardiography; congenital heart disease; medical education; molecular cardiology; ventricular remodeling; cardiac hypertrophy; Cardiology Consult Service; General Cardiology Outpatient Clinic
Visit the James Lab website.
Jeanne James, MD, is an associate professor of pediatrics at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and is currently the director of the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
A native of West Virginia, Dr. James earned her bachelor and medical degrees from West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. She completed her pediatric residency and pediatric cardiology fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. Dr. James has been an attending staff member of the Division of Cardiology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine since 1995.
Dr. James' academic interests are in translational research on heart muscle disease, cardiovascular genetics and echocardiography. She has made numerous scholarly contributions to the field with publications describing both laboratory-based and clinical research. She serves as a grant reviewer for the American Heart Association and is a peer-reviewer for a number of scientific and medical journals.
Dr. James has established collaborative relationships with laboratory researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and investigators across the United States. As the director of the Mouse Echocardiography Core, she uses non-invasive imaging to evaluate phenotypes of transgenic mice, including embryonic mice.
Dr. James serves as an attending physician in clinical echocardiography laboratory as well as the inpatient cardiology ward and consult team. Dr. James is a member of the Cardiovascular Genetics (CVG) service and has significant responsibilities in the CVG outpatient clinic. Dr. James is a member of the American Society of Echocardiography, the American Heart Association and the Society for Pediatric Research.
MD: West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 1987.
Residency: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 1987-90.
Fellowship: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 1991-94.
Certification: Pediatrics, 1990 - present.
Certified: Pediatric Cardiology, 1996 - present.
Cheek J, Wirrig E, Alfieri C, James J, Yutzey K. Differential activation of valvulogenic, chondrogenic and osteogenic pathways in mouse models of myxomatous and calcific aortic valve disease. J Mol Cell Cardio. 2012 Mar;52(3):689-700.
Sadayappan S, Gulick J, Martin L, Osinska H, Barefield D, Cuello F, Avkiran M, Lasko V, Lorenz J, Maillet M, Martin J, Heller-Brown J, Bers D, Molkentin J, James J, Robbins J. A critical function for Ser-282 in cardiac myosin binding protein-C phosphorylation and cardiac function. Circ Res. 2011; 109(2):141-50.
James J, Kinnett K, Ittenbach R, Wang Y, Benson D, Cripe L. Electrocardiographic abnormalities in very young Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients precede the onset of cardiac dysfunction. Neuromuscul Disord. 2011; 21(7):462-7.
Combs M, Braitsch C, Lange A, James J, Yutzey K. NFATc1 promotes epicardium-derived cell (EPDC) invasion into myocardium. Development. 2011; 138(9):1747-57.
James J, Robbins J. Signaling and myosin binding protein C. J Biol Chem. 2011;286(12):9913-9.
Stanley BA, Graham DR, James J, Mitsak M, Tarwater PM, Robbins J, Van Eyk JE. Altered myofilament stoichiometry in response to heart failure in a cardioprotective a-myosin heavy chain transgenic rabbit model. Proteomics Clin Appl. 2011; 5(3-4):147-58.
Acehan D, Vaz F, Houtkooper R, James J, Moore V, Tokunaga C, Kulik W, Wansapura J, Toth M, Strauss A, Khuchua Z. Cardiac and skeletal muscle defects in a mouse model of human Barth syndrome. J Biol Chem. 2010; 286(2):899-908.
Hinton R, Adelman-Brown J, Witt S, Krishnamurthy V, Gruber M, Osinska H, Sakthivel B, James J, Narmoneva D, Mecham R, Benson D. Elastin haploinsufficiency results in latent progressive aortic valve disease in a mouse model. Circ Res. 2010; 107(4):549-57.
James J, Hor K, Moga M, Martin L, Robbins J. Effects of myosin heavy chain manipulation in experimental heart failure. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2010; 48(5):999-1006.
Suzuki T, Palmer B, James J, Wang Y, Chen V, VanBuren P, Maughan D, Robbins J, LeWinter M. Effects of cardiac myosin isoform variation on myofilament function and cross-bridge kinetics in transgenic rabbits. Circ Heart Fail. 2009; 2(4):334-41.
Pattison J, Waggoner J, James J, Martin L, Gulick J, Osinska H, Klevitsky R, Kranias E, Robbins J. Phospholamban overexpression in transgenic rabbits. Transgenic Research. 2008; 17(2):157-70.
John L. Jefferies, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACC
Co-Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy
Phone 513-803-2913
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Advanced heart failure; cardiomyopathy; mechanical circulatory support and transplant
Heritable causes of vascular disease; novel drug therapies for advanced heart failure; novel gene discovery in cardiomyopathy; characterization and management of left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC); early diagnosis and management of chemotherapy induced cardiotoxicity.
Dr. Jefferies, a professor of pediatric cardiology and adult cardiovascular diseases within the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, is the director of Advanced Heart Failure / Cardiomyopathy in the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
He completed his combined pediatric and adult cardiology training at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas at the Texas Children's Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute. He has authored or co-authored over 120 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters on cardiomyopathy, cardiovascular genetics, and adults with congenital heart disease.
His current research interests include heritable causes of cardiovascular disease, novel drug therapies for advanced heart failure, novel gene discovery in cardiomyopathy, characterization and management of left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC), and early diagnosis and management of chemotherapy induced cardiotoxicity.
He is on the editorial board of the Texas Heart Institute Journal and is an active member of numerous professional organizations, including the Heart Failure Society of America, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. He is the lead editor for two textbooks that focus on the management of heart disease in children and young adults entitled "Heart Failure in the Child and Young Adult: From Bench to Bedside" and "Cardioskeletal Myopathies in Children and Young Adults."
BS: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1992.
MD: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1996.
Residency: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2000.
MPH: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2001.
Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2006.
Certification: Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Advanced Heart Failure, Cardiac Transplant.
Towbin JA, Lorts A, Jefferies JL. Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy. Lancet. 2015;Apr 9. Epub ahead of print.
McCullough PA, Jefferies JL. Novel Markers And Therapies For Patients With Acute Heart Failure And Renal Dysfunction. Am J Med. 2015 Mar;128(3):312.e1-22.
Villa CR, Ryan TD, Collins JJ, Taylor MD, Lucky AW, Jefferies JL. Left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy associated with epidermolysis bullosa simplex with muscular dystrophy and PLEC1 mutation. Neuromuscul Disord. 2015 Feb;25(2):165-8.
Raman SV, Hor KN, Halnon NJ, Kissel JT, He X, Tran T, Smart S, McCarthy B, Taylor MD, Jefferies JL, Rafael-Fortney JA, Lowe J, Roble SL, Cripe LH. Eplerenone for early cardiomyopathy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet Neurol. 2015 Feb;14(2):153-61.
Jefferies JL. Barth syndrome. Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 2013 Aug;163C(3):198-205.
Breinholt JP, Moulik M, Dreyer WJ, Denfield SW, Kim JJ, Jefferies JL, Rossano JW, Gates CM, Clunie SK, Bowles KR, Kearney DL, Bowles NE, Towbin JA. Viral epidemiologic shift in inflammatory heart disease: the increasing involvement of parvovirus B19 in the myocardium of pediatric cardiac transplant patients. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2010 Jul;29(7):739-46.
Carlson P, Jefferies JL, Kearney D, Russell H. Refractory dilated cardiomyopathy associated with metastatic neuroblastoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2010 Jun 29.
Shah AM, Jefferies JL, Rossano JW, Decker JA, Cannon BC, Kim JJ. Electrocardiographic abnormalities and arrhythmias are strongly associated with the development of cardiomyopathy in muscular dystrophy. Heart Rhythm. 2010 Jun 18.
Rossano JW, Morales DL, Zafar F, Denfield SW, Kim JJ, Jefferies JL, Dreyer WJ. Impact of antibodies against human leukocyte antigens on long-term outcome in pediatric heart transplant patients: An analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing database. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2010 May 26.
Thomas R. Kimball, MD
Medical Director, Heart Institute
Medical Director, Heart Institute
Director of Outpatient Clinic
Director of Cardiology Consult Service
Phone 513-636-8270
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Congential heart disease; echocardiography; cardiac imaging; Cardiology Consult Service; Cardiac Step-Down Unit; General Cardiology Outpatient Clinic
Ventricular function; transgenic mice phenotyping; cardiovascular changes with obstructive sleep apnea; cardiovascular changes with renal disease; pediatric obesity; cardiovascular changes in fit and unfit children; echocardiography quality assurance
Thomas R. Kimball, MD, is a professor of pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and is currently the medical director of the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
A native of California, Dr. Kimball graduated with distinction and honors from Stanford University. He earned his medical degree from New York University, New York, NY. He completed his pediatric internship and residency at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and his pediatric cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Dr. Kimball has been an attending staff member of the Division of Cardiology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine since 1988.
Dr. Kimball's academic interests relate to echocardiography and he has made numerous scholarly contributions in the field of ventricular function utilizing echocardiography, particularly in the field of hypertension and obesity.
He has established collaborative relationships with basic scientists at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine using echocardiography to evaluate phenotypes of transgenic mice, including embryonic mice.
Dr. Kimball has been active in the cardiology community. He is a member of the American Society of Echocardiography, American Heart Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Cardiology and an investigator in the NIH Pediatric Heart Network.
He was also a member of the first Family Advisory Council at Cincinnati Children's and received the 2006 Family Advisory Council Award of Excellence.
In 2010, he was made the medical director of the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's.
BS: Stanford University with Honors and Distinction, Stanford, CA, 1978.
MD: New York University School of Medicine, New York City, NY, 1982.
Residency: Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 1985.
Fellowship: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1988.
Certification: Pediatrics, 1986; Pediatric Cardiology, 1991 (recertification, 1997, 2004).
Shah AS, Gao Z, Urbina EM, Kimball TR, Dolan LM. The effects of arterial thickness and stiffness in obese youth. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology Metabolism. 2014 Mar;99(3):1037-43.
Alghamdi M, De Souza AM, White CT, Potts MT, Warady BA, Furth SL, Kimball TR, Potts JE, Sandor GG. Response to: echocardiography assessment of the aorta in children with chronic kidney disease. Pediatric Cardiology. 2014 Jan;35(1):183-4.
Uzark K, King E, Spicer R, Beekman R, Kimball T, Varni J. The clinical utility of health-related quality of life assessment in pediatric cardiology outpatient practice. Congenital Heart Disease. 2013 May;8(3):211-8.
Madueme PC, Khoury PR, Urbina EM, Kimball TR. Predictors of exaggerated exercise-induced systolic blood pressures in young patients after coarctation repair. Cardiology In The Young. 2013 Jun;23(3):416-22.
Alghamdi M, De Souza A, White CT, Potts MT, Warady BA, Furth SL, Kimball T, Potts JE, Sandor GG. Echo-Doppler assessment of the biophysical properties of the aorta in children with chronic kidney disease. Pediatric Cardiology. 2013 Jun;34(5):1218-25.
Urbina EM, Khoury PR, McCoy CE, Dolan LM, Daniels SR, Kimball TR. Triglyceride to HDL-C ratio and increased arterial stiffness in children, adolescents and young adults. Pediatrics. 2013 Apr;131(4):E1082-90.
Shah AS, Urbina EM, Khoury PR, Kimball TR, Dolan LM. Lipids and lipoprotein ratios: Contribution to carotid intima media thickness in adolescents and young adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Journal of Clinical Lipidology. 2013 Sept-Oct;7(5):441-445.
Kimball TR. Echocardiography in the Assessment of Cardiovascular Disease Risk. In: Eduardo M. da Cruz, Dunbar Ivy, James Jaggers, editors, Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Intensive Care. Springer-Verlag London 2013. ISBN:978-1-4471-4618-6.
Kimball TR, Michelfelder EC. Echocardiography: Basic Principles and Imaging. In: Allen HD, Driscoll DJ, Shaddy RE, Feltes TF, editors. Moss & Adams' Heart Disease in Infants, Children and Adolescents: Including the Fetus and Young Adult. 1. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2012. p. 134-71.
Shah AS, Dolan LM, Gao Z, Kimball TR, Urbina EM. Racial differences in arterial stiffness among adolescents and young adults with type 2 diabetes. Pediatric Diabetes. 2012 Mar;13(2):170-5.
Shelley Kirk, PhD, RD, LD
Director, HealthWorks!, Center for Better Health and Nutrition, Heart Institute
Director, HealthWorks!, Center for Better Health and Nutrition, Heart Institute
Phone 513-636-4305
Fax 513-636-2459
Email email@example.com
BS: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1976.
MS: University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 1978; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1988.
PhD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2003.
Hoelscher DM, Kirk S, Cunningham-Sabo L, Ritchie L. Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Interventions for the prevention and treatment of pediatric overweight and obesity. J Acad Nutri. 2013 Oct;113(10):1375-94.
Hampl S, Demeule M, Eneli I, Frank M, Hawkins MJ, Kirk S, Sallinen B, Santos M, Schmidt A, Ward W, Rhodes S. Parent perspectives on attrition from tertiary care pediatric weight management programs. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2013; 52(6):509-515.
Kirk S, Brehm B, Saelens BE, Woo JG, Kissel E, D'Alessio D, Bolling C, Daniels SR. Role of carbohydrate modification in weight management among obese children: A randomized clinical trial. J Pediatr. 2012; 161(2): 320-327.
Beebe DW, Miller N, Kirk S, Daniels SR, Amin R. The association between obstructive sleep apnea and dietary choices among obese individuals during middle to late childhood. Sleep Medicine. 2011; 12(8):797-799.
Sung V, Beebe DW, Vandyke R, Fenchel MC, Crimmins NA, Kirk S, Amin R, Hiscock H, Wake M. Does sleep duration predict metabolic risk in obese adolescents attending tertiary services? A cross- sectional study. Sleep. 2011; 34(7):891-898.
Siegel RM, Neidhard MS, Kirk S. A comparison of low glycemic index and staged portion-controlled diets in improving BMI of obese children in a pediatric weight management program. Clinical Pediatrics. 2011; 50(5):459-461.
Kirk S, Bolling C. Practical Strategies in a Clinical Setting for Promoting Lifestyle Changes in Overweight Youth. Obesity Management. December 2007; 3(6):272-282.
Lawson ML, Kirk S, Mitchell T, Chen MK, Loux TJ, Daniels SR, Harmon CM, Clements RH. One-year outcomes of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbidly obese adolescents: a multi-center study from the Pediatric Bariatric Study Group. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2006; 41(1):137-43.
Kirk S, Scott B, Daniels SR. Supplement to the Journal: Pediatric obesity epidemic: Treatment options. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 2005; 105(5 Suppl 1):S44-51.
Kirk S, Zeller MH, Claytor R, Santangelo M, Khoury PR, Daniels SR. The relationship of health outcomes to improvement in body mass index in children and adolescents. Obes Res. 2005; 13:876-882.
Timothy K. Knilans, MD
Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing
Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing
Phone 513-636-7269
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Cardiac electrophysiology and pacing; radio frequency ablation; tilt table testing
Cardiac arrest; sudden cardiac death
MD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1983.
Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1983-1986.
Fellowship (Pediatric Cardiology): Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1986-1989.
Fellowship (Cardiac Electrophysiology): St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, 1990-1991.
Fellowship (Pediatric cardiac Electrophysiology): Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, 1991.
Certification: Pediatrics, 1989 (Recertified 1999); Pediatric Cardiology, 1992 (Recertified 1998).
Czosek RJ, Anderson JB, Marino BS, Mellion K, Knilans TK. Noninvasive risk stratification techniques in pediatric patients with ventricular preexcitation. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2011 May;34(5):555-62.
Eghtesady P, Michelfelder EC, Knilans TK, Witte DP, Manning PB, Crombleholme TM. Fetal surgical management of congenital heart block in a hydropic fetus: Lessons learned from a clinical experience. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2011 Mar;141(3):835-7.
Czosek RJ, Anderson J, Marino BS, Connor C, Knilans TK. Linear lesion cryoablation for the treatment of atrioventricular nodal re-entry tachycardia in pediatrics and young adults. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2010 Nov;33(11):1304-11.
Czosek RJ, Anderson JB, Cao J, Knilans TK. Assessment of T-wave oversensing in an infant with an implanted defibrillator. Heart Rhythm. 2010 Oct;7(10):1516-7.
Mays WA, Border WL, Knecht SK, Gerdes YM, Pfriem H, Claytor RP, Knilans TK, Hirsch R, Mone SM, Beekman RH 3rd. Exercise capacity improves after transcatheter closure of the Fontan fenestration in children. Congenit Heart Dis. 2008 Jul;3(4):254-61.
Knecht SK, Mays WA, Gerdes YM, Claytor RP, Knilans TK. Exercise evaluation of upper- versus lower-extremity blood pressure gradients in pediatric and young-adult participants. Pediatr Exerc Sci. 2007 Aug;19(3):344-8.
Wright KN, Knilans TK, Irvin HM. When, why, and how to perform cardiac radiofrequency catheter ablation. J Vet Cardiol. 2006 Nov;8(2):95-107.
Knilans TK. Multielectrode coronary artery catheterization: still an effective tool in ablation of right free-wall accessory pathways. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2004 Nov;15(11):1244-5.
Markham LW, Knecht SK, Daniels SR, Mays WA, Khoury PR, Knilans TK. Development of exercise-induced arm-leg blood pressure gradient and abnormal arterial compliance in patients with repaired coarctation of the aorta. Am J Cardiol. 2004 Nov 1;94(9):1200-2.
Beery TA, Dyment M, Shooner K, Knilans TK, Benson DW. A candidate locus approach identifies a long QT syndrome gene mutation. Biol Res Nurs. 2003 Oct;5(2):97-104.
Christopher P. Learn, MD
UC Department of Internal Medicine
Phone 513-803-2243
Fax 513-803-0079
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
ACHD; echocardiography; Cardiac Step-Down Unit
MD: Boston University, Boston, MA, 2003.
Residency: Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, 2007.
Fellowship: Cardiovascular Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, 2012. Pediatric Cardiology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, 2012.
Certification: Internal Medicine, 2008; General Pediatrics, 2008; Pediatric Cardiology, 2012; (Adult) Cardiovascular Medicine, 2013; National Board of Echocardiography ASCeXAM, 2013; Diplomate - Adult Comprehensive Echocardiography, National Board of Echocardiography.
Learn CP, Holzer RJ, Daniels CJ, Torres AJ, Vincent JA, Moore JW, Armsby LB, Landzberg MJ, Bergensen L. Adverse events rates and risk factors in adults undergoing cardiac catheterization at pediatric hospitals — results from the C3PO. Catheter Cardiovasc Inerv. 2013 May;81(6):997-1005.
Learn C, Phillips A, Chisolm J, Hill S, Cheatham J, Winch P, Galantowicz M, Holzer R. Pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and multifocal pulmonary blood supply: does an intensive interventional approach improve the outcome? Congenit Heart Dis. 2012 Mar-Apr;7(2):111-21.
Learn CP, Yates AR, Nicholson L, Milton K, Lloyd E, Cua CL. Tissue Doppler measurements correlate with central venous pressure in pediatric patients after cardiac surgery. ASAIO J. 2010 Jul-Aug;56(4):377-82.
Lisa A. Lee, MD
Director, Community Based Cardiology, Heart Institute
Director, Community Based Cardiology, Heart Institute
Phone 859-344-4732
Fax 859-344-4752
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
BA: Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1989.
MD: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, 1993.
Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, 1993-1996.
Fellowships: Pediatric Resident, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1994-1996; Pediatric Cardiology, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1997-2000; Pediatric Echocardiography, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, 2000-2001.
Certification: Pediatrics, 1996; Pediatric Cardiology, 2000.
Lee LA. Innocent murmurs. Presented to the family practice residents and St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Edgewood, KY. January 10, 2003
Lee LA. Stress echocardiography in children. Pediatric Ultrasound Today. 2001 Volume 6, Lesson 4.
Lee LA, Goya G, Witt SA, Flascock BJ, Mays W, Kimball TR. Resting predictors of latent stress-induced left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in young patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. J Am Coll Cardiology. 2001 Oct.
Lee LA. Evaluation and management of hypertension in children. Presented to nurse practitioner students, University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI. March 2000.
Lee LA, Simon C, Bove EL, Mosca RS, Ebbini ES, Abrams GD, Ludomirsky A. High-intensity focused ultrasound effect on cardiac tissues: potential for clinical application. Echocardiography. 2000 Aug; 17(6 Pt 1):563-6.
Ohye RG, Kagisaki K, Lee LA, Mosca RS, Goldberg CS, Bove EL. Biventricular repair for aortic atresia or hypoplasia and ventricular septal defect. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1999;118(4):648-53.
Lee LA, Kimball TR, Daniels SR, Khoury P, Meyer RA. Left ventricular mechanics in the preterm infant and their effect on the measurement of cardiac performance. J Pediatr. 1992 Jan;120(1):114-9.
Angela Lorts, MD
Director, Ventricular Assist Device Program
Director, Ventricular Assist Device Program
Phone 513-803-4580
Email email@example.com
Advanced heart failure; cardiopulmonary bypass mediated myocardial dysfunction; novel uses of pediatric VADs; cardiomyopathy; mechanical circulatory support and transplant
Myocardial remodeling
MD: Creighton University Medical School, Omaha, NE, 1998.
Residency: The Children's Hospital, Denver, CO, 2001.
Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2004; University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006.
Certifications: American Board of Pediatrics, 2001; American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-Board of Pediatric Cardiology, 2004; American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-Board of Pediatric Critical Care, 2006.
Towbin JA, Lorts A, Jefferies JL. Left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy. Lancet. 2015 Apr 9.
Benoit S, Antommaria AH, Weidner N, Lorts A. Difficult decision: what should we do when a VAD-supported child experiences a severe stroke? Pediatr Transplant. 2015 Mar;19(2):139-43.
Zafar F, Castleberry C, Khan MS, Mehta V, Bryant R 3rd, Lorts A, Wilmot I, Jefferies JL, Chin C, Morales DL. Pediatric heart transplant waiting list mortality in the era of ventricular assist devices. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2015 Jan;34(1):82-8.
Thomas TO, Chandrakasan S, O'Brien M, Jefferies JL, Ryan TD, Wilmot I, Baker ML, Madueme PC, Morales D, Lorts A. The use of a Berlin Heart EXCOR LVAD in a child receiving chemotherapy for Castleman's disease. Pediatr Transplant. 2015 Feb;19(1):E15-8.
Thomas TO, Jefferies JL, Lorts A, Anderson JB, Gao Z, Benson DW, Hor KN, Cripe LH, Urbina EM. Autonomic dysfunction: a driving force for myocardial fibrosis in young Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients? Pediatr Cardiol. 2015 Mar;36(3):561-8.
Friess MR, Marino BS, Cassedy A, Wilmot I, Jefferies JL, Lorts A. Health-related quality of life assessment in children followed in a cardiomyopathy clinic. Pediatr Cardiol. 2015 Mar;36(3):516-23.
Ryan TD, Jefferies JL, Zafar F, Lorts A, Morales DL. The evolving role of the total artificial heart in the management of end-stage congenital heart disease and adolescents. ASAIO J. 2015 Jan-Feb;61(1):8-14.
Moore RA, Madueme PC, Lorts A, Morales DL, Taylor MD. Virtual implantation evaluation of the total artificial heart and compatibility: Beyond standard fit criteria. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2014 Nov;33(11):1180-3.
Lorts A, Zafar F, Adachi I, Morales DL. Mechanical assist devices in neonates and infants. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr Card Surg Annu. 2014;17(1):91-5.
Ryan TD, Jefferies JL, Sawnani H, Wong BL, Gardner A, Del Corral M, Lorts A, Morales DL. Implantation of the HeartMate II and HeartWare left ventricular assist devices in patients with duchenne muscular dystrophy: lessons learned from the first applications. ASAIO J. 2014 Mar-Apr;60(2):246-8.
Nicolas L. Madsen, MD, MPH
Director of Cardiac Step-Down Unit
Director of Cardiac Step-Down Unit
Phone 513-636-5476
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Nicolas L. Madsen, MD, MPH, joined the Heart Institute in July 2012. He attended the University of California at Davis, where he graduated with honors. He earned his medical degree with honors at the University of Washington in 2005. Dr. Madsen completed his residency in general pediatrics and his fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Seattle Children's Hospital in Seattle, Washington. In addition, Dr. Madsen earned a Master of Public Health from the University of Washington in 2011.
Dr. Madsen's clinical focus is in general and preventative cardiology. His research interests also focus on the prevention of cardiac disease processes. Specifically, Dr. Madsen aims to understand the implications of traditional cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity, hypertension and sedentary lifestyle on persons with congenital heart disease. Additionally, he is focused on the prevention of sudden cardiac death in adolescent athletes by way of optimizing preparticipation sports screening. Dr. Madsen has received several national awards for his research and is an active member of the American Heart Association and American Academy of Pediatrics.
MD: University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, 2005.
MPH: University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, 2011.
Residency: Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA.
Fellowship: Cardiology, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA.
Peace C. Madueme, MD, MS, FAAP, FACC
Phone 513-636-4579
Fax 513-803-0564
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Peace Madueme is an assistant professor of pediatrics with the University College of Medicine. He is a faculty member that specializes in cardiac imaging.
Dr. Madueme completed his residency and fellowship training at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and has been at the hospital since 2005. Dr. Madueme has been a member of the Division of Cardiology/Heart Institute since 2008. His clinical and research focus relate to cardiac imaging by echocardiography, fetal echocardiography and cardiac MRI.
Dr. Madueme is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Cardiology, American Society of Echocardiography and the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.
Undergraduate: BSc & BPHE Queen's University, Canada, 2001.
MD: Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, 2005.
Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2008.
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2011.
Advanced Fellowship: Cardiac Imaging, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2012.
Certification: Pediatrics, 2011 and Pediatric Cardiology, 2012.
Madueme PC, Mazur W, Hor KN, Germann JT, Jefferies JL, Taylor MD. Comparison of the Area-Length Method by Echocardiography versus Full Volume Quantification by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Assessment of Left Atrial Volumes. Pediatr Cardiol. 2014 Apr;35(4):645-51.
Madueme PC, Khoury PR, Urbina EM, Kimball TR. Predictors for Elevated Exercise-Induced Systolic Blood Pressures in Pediatric Patients after Successful Coarctation Repair. Cardiol Young. 2013 Jun;23(3)416-22.
Madueme PC, Hinton R. Tuberous sclerosis and cardiac rhabdomyomas: A case report and review of the literature. Congenit Heart Dis. 2011 Mar-Apr;6(2):183-7.
Ryan A. Moore, MD
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David P. Nelson, MD, PhD
Director, Cardiac Intensive Care
Director, Cardiac Intensive Care
Fax 513-803-1821
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Neurodevelopmental outcomes; family-centered care; cardiopulmonary interactions; physiology of non-conventional circulations; endocrine abnormalities in cardiac intensive care; management of acute decompensated heart failure; cardio-renal syndrome; end of life care
Quality of life and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with acquired and congenital heart disease; etiology of adrenal dysfunction in cardiac intensive care; inflammatory organ system injury after congenital heart surgery
David P. Nelson, MD, PhD, completed his fellowship in pediatric critical care at Harvard University, Boston Children's Hospital. He served as the co-director of Cardiac Intensive Care at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center from July 1996 to August 2005. In September of 2005, Dr. Nelson served as the director of Cardiac Intensive Care at Texas Children's Hospital for four years before rejoining Cincinnati Children's as the director of Cardiac Intensive Care in 2009.
Dr. Nelson's clinical interests include neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with acquired and congenital disease; family-centered care; cardiopulmonary interactions and the physiology of non-conventional circulations; endocrine abnormalities in cardiac intensive care; management of acute decompensated heart failure in children; cardio-renal syndrome and end-of-life care.
His research focuses on quality of life and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with acquired and congenital heart disease; etiology of adrenal dysfunction in cardiac intensive care; inflammatory organ system injury and congenital heart surgery.
PhD: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1987.
MD: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 1989.
Residency: University of Washington-Children's Hospital Medical Center, Seattle, WA, 1989-1992.
Fellowship: Harvard University, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 1992-1994.
Certification: Pediatrics, 1992; Pediatric Cardiology, 1994; Pediatric Critical Care, 1998.
Moffett BS, McDade E, Rossano JW, Dickerson HA, Nelson DP. Enteral potassium supplementation in a pediatric cardiac intensive care unit: Evaluation of a practice change. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2011 Feb 3.
Jefferies JL, Hoffman TM, Nelson DP. Heart failure treatment in the intensive care unit in children. Heart Fail Clin. 2010 Oct;6(4):531-58, ix-x. Review.
Carlo WF, Nelson DP. Inhaled nitric oxide improves oxygen saturation in children with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations after the Fontan procedure. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2010 Aug 5.
Giuliano JS Jr, Lahni PM, Bigham MT, Manning PB, Nelson DP, Wong HR, Wheeler DS. Plasma angiopoietin-2 levels increase in children following cardiopulmonary bypass. Intensive Care Med. 2008 Oct;34(10):1851-7.
Moffet, BS, AR Mott, DP Nelson, KD Gurwitch. Medication dosing and renal insufficiency in a pediatric cardiac intensive care unit: impact of pharmacist consultation. Pediatr Cardiol. 2008 29(4):744-8.
Wheeler DS, Dent CL, Manning PB, Nelson DP. Factors prolonging length of stay in the cardiac intensive care unit following the arterial switch operation. Cardiol Young. 2008 Feb;18(1):41-50.
Price JF, AR Mott, DP Nelson, AC Chang, E O'Brian Smith, JA Towbin, WJ Dreyer, SW Denfield, SL Goldstein. Worsening renal function in children hospitalized with decompensated heart failure: evidence for a pediatric cardiorenal syndrome. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2008 9(3):279-84.
Moffett, BS, AR Mott, D.P. Nelson, SL Goldstein, JL Jefferies. Renal effects of fenoldopam in critically ill pediatric patients: A retrospective review. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2008 9(4):403-406.
Rossano JW, MD Taylor, EO Smith, CD Fraser, Jr., ED McKenzie, JF Price, HA Dickerson, DP Nelson, AR Mott. Glycemic profile in infants who have undergone the arterial switch operation: Hyperglycemia is not associated with adverse events. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2008 135(4):739-45.
Wheeler, DS, CL Dent, PB Manning, DP Nelson. Factors prolonging length of stay in the cardiac intensive care unit following the arterial switch operation. Cardiol Young. 2008 18(1):41-50.
Wheeler, DS, JM Pearl, PB Manning, SM Schwartz, CL Dent, P Khoury, DP Nelson. Factors Prolonging Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Stay after neonatal congenital heart surgery. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2008 18(1):41-50.
Andrew Redington, MD
Executive Co-Director, Heart Institute; Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
Executive Co-Director, Heart Institute; Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
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Dr. Redington comes to Cincinnati Children's from The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario. His research interests include ventricular function, integrated physiology of congenital heart disease, and ischemic preconditioning. Dr. Redington has written more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, more than 30 book chapters, and has co-edited seven textbooks. He currently holds over 15 US and international patents.
Working with colleagues throughout the Heart Institute, his plans include building on the remarkable developments achieved in the recent past to establish a world-leading multidisciplinary team providing the highest quality clinical care and practice-changing research for children and adults with congenital heart disease.
Medical School: University of London.
Research Training: Doctorate of Medicine, University of London.
Fellowship: Adult cardiology, pediatric cardiology, The Royal Brompton Hospital, London, England.
Li J, Rohaila S, Gelber N, Rutka J, Sabah N, Gladstone R, Wei C, Kharbanda R, Redington AN. MicroRNA-144 is a circulating effector of remote ischemic preconditioning. Basic Research in Cardiology 2014: 109 (5): pp 423. (Sept)
Burns KM, Byrne BJ, Gelb BD, Kuhn B, Leinwand LA, Mital S, Pearson GD, Rodefeld M, Rossano JW, Stauffer BL, Taylor MD, Towbin JA, Redington AN. New mechanistic and therapeutic targets for pediatric heart failure: report from a national heart, lung, and blood institute working group. Circulation 2014: 130 (1): pp 79-86. (July)
Friedberg MK, Redington AN. Right versus left ventricular failure: differences, similarities, and interactions. Circulation 2014: 129 (9): pp 1033-1044. (Mar)
Friedberg MK, Cho MY, Li J, Assad RS, Sun M, Rohailla S, Honjo O, Apitz C, Redington AN. Adverse biventricular remodeling in isolated right ventricular hypertension is mediated by increased TGFβ1 signaling and is abrogated by angiotensin receptor blockade. American Journal of Respirology Cell Molecular Biology 2013: 49 (6): pp 1019-1028. (Dec)
Roche SL, Redington AN. Right ventricle: wrong targets? Another blow for pharmacotherapy in congenital heart diseases. Circulation 2013: 127 (3): pp 314-316. (Jan)
Hahn CD, Manlhiot C, Schmidt MR, Nielsen TT, Redington AN. Remote ischemic per-conditioning: A novel therapy for evolving stroke? Stroke 2011: 42 (10) pp 2960-2962.
Jean-St-Michel E, Manlhiot C, Li J, Tropak M, Michelsen MM, Schmidt MR, McCrindle BW, Slievert G, Wells GD, Redington AN. Remote Ischemic Preconditioning improves maximal performance in elite athletes. Medicine & Science of Sports & Exercise 2011: 43 (7): pp 1280-1286.
Wei M, Xin P, Li Y, Li J, Ma S, Wang L, Liu M, Li J, Zhu W, Redington AN. Repeated remote ischemic postconditioning protects against adverse left ventricular remodeling and improves survival in a rat model of myocardial infarction. Circulation Research 2011: 108 (10): pp 1220-1225.
Roche SL, Vogel M, Pitkanen O, Grant B, Slorach C, Fackoury C, Stephens D, Smallhorn J, Benson LN, Kantor PF, Redington AN. Isovolumic acceleration at rest and during exercise in children normal values for the left ventricle and first non-invasive demonstration of exercise-induced force-frequency relationships. Journal of American College of Cardiology 2011: 57 (9): pp 1100-1107.
Botker HE, Kharbanda R, Schmidt MR, Bottcher M, Kaltoft AK, Terkelsen CJ, Munk K, Anderson NH, Hansen TM, Trautner S, Lassen JF, Christiansen EH, Krusell LR, Kristensen SD, Thuesen L, Nielsen SS, Rehling M, Sorensen HT, Redington AN, Neilseu TT: Remote ischaemic conditioning before hospital admission, as a complement to angioplasty, and effect on myocardial salvage in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a randomized trial. Lancet 2010: 375 (9716): pp 727-734.
Thomas D. Ryan, MD, PhD
Heart Failure, Transplant, VAD Physician
Heart Failure, Transplant, VAD Physician
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Cardiomyopathy; advanced heart failure; heart transplantation; mechanical circulatory support and transplant
Development of cardiomyopathy in at risk populations, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other genetic cardiomyopathies, and anthracycline exposure.
Thomas D Ryan, MD, PhD, was born and raised in Wichita, KS and graduated magna cum laude from Wichita State University in 1996 with a BS in biological sciences.
In 1997 he began training in the MD/PhD program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and studied the molecular, cellular, and whole organ aspects of cardiac remodeling in a rat model of volume overload. His general pediatrics residency training took place at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center from 2006-2009, as did his pediatric cardiology fellowship training from 2009-2012 and advanced fellowship in Pediatric Heart Failure/Transplant from 2012-2013. His clinical and research interests focus on heart failure, cardiomyopathy, cardiac transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support.
BS: Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, 1996.
PhD: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 2004.
MD: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 2005.
Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2006-2009.
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2009-2012.
Advanced Fellowship: Pediatric Heart Failure/Transplant, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2012-2013.
Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, 2010; American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-board of Pediatric Cardiology, 2012.
Ryan TD, Jefferies JL, Chin C, Sticka JJ, Taylor MD, Harris R, Moore J, Goodridge E, Mount L, Bolyard AA, Otto B, Jones A, Shimamura A, Davies S, Myers K. Abnormal circumferential strain measured by echocardiography is present in patients with shwachman-diamond syndrome despite normal shortening fraction. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2015 Mar 2.
Ryan TD, Jefferies JL, Wilmot I. Managing heart failure in adults with congenital heart disease. Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2015 Feb;17(2):376.
Dandoy CE, Davies SM, Hirsch R, Chima RS, Paff Z, Cash M, Ryan TD, Lane A, El-Bietar J, Myers KC, Jodele S. Abnormal echocardiography seven days after stem cell transplant may be an early indicator of thrombotic microangiopathy. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2015 Jan;21(1):113-8.
Ryan TD, Jefferies JL, Zafar F, Lorts A, Morales DLSM. The evolving role of the total artificial heart in the management of end-stage congenital heart disease and adolescents. ASAIO Journal. 2015 Jan-Feb;61(1):8-14.
Chin C, Ryan TD, Castleberry CD. Transplantation in the highly sensitized pediatric patient. Circulation. 2014 Jun 3;129:2313-19.
Ryan TD, Jefferies JL, Sawnani H, Wong BL, Gardner A, Del Corral M, Lorts A, Morales DLS. Implantation of the HeartMate II and HeartWare left ventricular assist devices in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: lessons learned from the first applications. ASAIO Journal. 2014 Mar-Apr;60(2):246-8.
Ryan TD, Taylor MD, Wojciech M, Cripe LH, Pratt J, King EC, Lao K, Grenier MA, Jefferies JL, Benson DW, Hor KH. Abnormal circumferential strain is present in young Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients. Pediatric Cardiol. 2013 Jun;34(5):1159-65.
Ryan TD, Ware SM, Lucky AW, Towbin JA, Jefferies JL, Hinton RB. Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy and aortopathy in a patient with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. Circ Heart Fail. 2012 Sep 1;5(5):e81-2.
Ryan TD, Rothstein EC, Aban I, Tallaj JA, Husain A, Lucchesi PA, Dell'Italia LJ. Left ventricular eccentric remodeling and matrix loss are mediated by bradykinin and precede cardiomyocyte elongation in rats with volume overload. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007 Feb 20;49(7):811-21.
Marc G. Schecter, MD
Medical Director, Pediatric Lung Transplant Program
Medical Director, Pediatric Lung Transplant Program
Phone 513-636-6771
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MD: University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 2000.
Residency: University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, 2003.
Fellowship: University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, 2006.
Certifications: Pediatrics, 2003; Pediatric Pulmonary, 2006.
Yousef S, Benden C, Boyer D, Elidemir O, Frischer T, Goldfarb S, Lopez-Mitnik G, Mallory G, Visner G, Westall G, Schecter MG. Lung transplantation in children following bone marrow transplantation: a multi-center experience. Pediatric Transplant. 2013 May;17(3):231-6.
Khan MS, Heinle JS, Samayoa AX, Adachi I, Schecter MG, Mallory GB, Morales DL. Is lung transplantation survival better in infants? Analysis of over 80 infants. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2013 Jan;32(1):44-9.
Rama JA, Fan LL, Faro A, Elidemir O, Morales DL, Heinle JS, Smith EO, Hazen ML, Moonnumakal SP, Mallory GB, Schecter MG. Lung Transplantation for childhood diffuse lung disease. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2013 May;48(5):490-6.
Vece TJ, Schecter MG, Gatti RA, Tunuguntla R, Garcia CK, Langston C, Dishop MK, Moore RH, Fan LL. Rapid and progressive pulmonary fibrosis in 2 families with DNA repair deficiencies of undetermined etiology. J Pediatr. 2012 Apr;160(4):700-702.e3.
Schaellibaum G, Lammers AE, Faro A, Moreno-Galdo A, Parakininkas D, Schecter MG, Solomon M, Boyer D, Conrad C, Frischer T, Wong J, Boehler A, Benden C. Bilateral lung transplantation for pediatric idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension: a multi-center experience. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2011 Nov;46(11):1121-7.
Scully BB, Zafar F, Schecter MG, Rossano JW, Mallory GB Jr, Heinle JS, Morales DL. Lung Retransplant in Children: appropriate when selectively applied. Ann Thorac Surg. 2011 Feb;91(2):574-9.
Rosen JB, Schecter MG, Heinle JS, McKenzie ED, Morales DL, Dishop MK, Danziger-Isakov L, Mallory GB, Elidemir O. Clostridium Difficile colitis in children following lung transplantation. Pediatr Transplant. 2010 Aug;14(5):651-6.
Robert M. Siegel, MD, FAAP
Medical Director, Center for Better Health and Nutrition
Medical Director, Center for Better Health and Nutrition
Phone 513-636-9420
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MD: New York University, School of Medicine, New York, NY, 1984.
Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1984-87.
Fellowship: Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 1992. American Board of Pediatrics, 1988.
Certification: Pediatrics, 1988.
Kirk S, Woo J, Jone M, Siegel R. Increased Frequency of Dietitian Visits is Associated with Improved BMI Outcomes in Obese Youth Participating in a Comprehensive Pediatric Weight Management Program. Childhood Obesity. 2015;11:202-207.
Murphy A, Kist C, Gier A, Edwards NM, Gao Z, Siegel RM. The Feasibility of High Intensity Interval Exercise in Obese Adolescents. Clin Ped. 2015;54:87-90.
Inge T, Siegel R, Xanthakos S. Weight loss maintenance: A hard nut to crack. JAMA Pediatr. 2014;168:796-7.
Siegel RM, Pitnar HE, Kist C, Woo JG, Gier A, Sewell M, Lattin B, Rooney A, Kirk S. Obese Children in a Community YMCA "Fun 2B Fit" Program have a reduction in BMI Z-scores. Clin Ped. 2014;53:694-696.
Siegel RM, Kist C, Ingram L, Kirk S. An after hours rapid access pediatric weight management clinic increases show rate. Clin Ped. 2014;53:490-492.
Garbutt JM, Mandrell KM, Allen M, Sterkel R, Epstein J, Stahl K, Kreusser K, Sitrin H, Ariza A, Cohen Reis E, Siegel R, Strunk RC. Pediatric providers experience with retail-based clinics. Journal of Pediatrics. 2013;163:1384-1388.e6.
Berger KA, Lynch J, Prows CA, Siegel RM, Myers MF. Mother's perceptions of family health history and an online parent-generated family health history tool. Clin Ped. 2012;52:70-77.
Kanetzke EE, Lynch J, Prows CA, Siegel RM, Myers MF. Perceived Utility of Parent-Generated Family Health History as a Health Promotion Tool in Pediatric Practice. Clinical Pediatrics. 2011;50:720-8.
Siegel RM, Neidhard MS, Kirk S. A Comparison of Reduced Glycemic Load and Staged Portion-Controlled Diets in Improving BMI and Other Health Outcomes of Obese Children in a Pediatric Weight Management Program. Clinical Pediatrics. 2011;50:459-461.
Siegel RM, Rich W, Khoury J. An Office-Based Low Carbohydrate Intervention in Teens: One Year Follow-up of a Six-Month Intervention. Clinical Pediatrics. 2011;50:459-461.
David S. Spar, MD
Pediatric Electrophysiologist, Heart Institute, Pediatric Cardiology
Pediatric Electrophysiologist, Heart Institute, Pediatric Cardiology
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MD: University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, 2005.
Residency: Pediatrics, Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, New Haven, CT, 2008.
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2011.
Pediatric Electrophysiology Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2012.
Spar DS, Anderson JB, Palumbo JS, Kukreja KU, Czosek RJ. Symptomatic Upper-Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis After Pacemaker Placement in a Pediatric Patient: How to Treat?Pediatr Cardiol. 2012 May 23.
Spar DS, Silver ES, Hordof AJ, Liberman L. Relation of the utility of exercise testing for risk assessment in pediatric patients with ventricular preexcitation to pathway location. Am J Cardiol. 2012 Apr 1;109(7):1011-4.
Spar DS, Silver ES, Hordof AJ, Torres A, Liberman L. Coronary artery spasm during radiofrequency ablation of a left lateral accessory pathway. Pediatr Cardiol. 2010 Jul;31(5):724-7.
Erdem SR, Broxson CS, Erdem A, Spar DS, Williams RT, Tümer N. The age-related discrepancy in the effect of neuropeptide Y on select catecholamine biosynthetic enzymes in the adrenal medulla and hypothalamus in rats. Neuropharmacology. 2002 Dec;43(8):1280-8.
Spar D, Macknin M. Use of letters and phone calls to encourage preparticipation Special Olympics physical examinations to be done in a medical home: a randomized, controlled trial. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2001 Dec;40(12):685-7.
Christopher J. Statile, MD
Pediatric Cardiologist, Heart Institute
Pediatric Cardiologist, Heart Institute
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Pediatric cardiology; fetal cardiology; echocardiography; fetal echocardiography; Cardiology Consult Service; General Cardiology Outpatient Clinic
Fetal cardiology; quality improvement in the echo lab
Undergrad: University of Pittsburgh.
MD: Eastern Virginia Medical School.
Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Sub Fellowship: Fetal Cardiology/Imaging.
Statile CJ, Taylor MD, Mazur W, Cripe LH, King E, Pratt J, Benson DW, Hor KN. Left Ventricular Noncompaction in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2013 Aug 1;15(1):67.
Ngamprasertwong P, Michelfelder EC, Arbabi S, Choe Y, Statile C, Ding L, Boat A, Eghtesady P, Holland K, Sadhasivam S. Anesthetic Techniques for Fetal Surgery: Effects of Maternal Anesthesia on Intraoperative Fetal Outcomes in Sheep Model. Anesthesiology. 2013 Apr;118(4):796-808.
Statile C, Cnota J, Gomien S, Divanovic A, Crombleholme T, Michelfelder E. Estimated Cardiac Output and Cardiovascular Profile Score in Fetuses with High Output Lesions. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2013 Jan;41(1):54-58.
Arnold W. Strauss, MD
Associate Director for External Relations and Strategic Projects, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation
Associate Director for External Relations and Strategic Projects, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation
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Arnold Strauss, MD, joined Cincinnati Children's in April, 2007, as chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the UC College of Medicine, chief medical officer of Cincinnati Children's and director of the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation. He is the seventh B.K. Rachford Memorial Chair in Pediatrics.
Dr. Strauss is a distinguished pediatric cardiologist, scientist, educator and leader. Prior to his arrival at Cincinnati Children's, he was the chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and medical director of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, a position he held from 2000 to 2007. Under his leadership, the university built and opened a new hospital for children, expanded its pediatric faculty and increased grant funding for pediatric research. From 1981 to 2000, Strauss was director of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Washington University/St. Louis Children's Hospital.
A respected scientist, Dr. Strauss' research focuses on understanding the molecular basis of disorders of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation and the genetic causes of congenital heart disease and cardiomyopathies. He is the recipient of two of the most prestigious awards in research. In November 2006 he was awarded the American Heart Association's Basic Science Research Award for groundbreaking work that led to finding genetic defects that can cause heart failure and sudden death in infants and children. In 1991 he received the E. Mead Johnson Award for Excellence in Pediatric Research.
MD: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1970.
Residency: Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 1970-72.
Fellowship: Cardiology, Children's Hospital and Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1972-75.
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Merck, Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ, 1975-77.
Liebig M, Schymik I, Mueller M, Wendel U, Mayatepek E, Ruiter J, Strauss AW, Wanders RJ, Spiekerkoetter U. (2006) Neonatal screening for very long-chain acyl-coA dehydrogenase deficiency: enzymatic and molecular evaluation of neonates with elevated C14:1-carnitine levels. Pediatrics. 118:1065-9.
Khuchua Z, Yue Z, Batts L, Strauss AW. (2006) A zebrafish model of human Barth syndrome reveals the essential role of tafazzin in cardiac development and function. Circ Res. 99:201-8.
Exil VJ, Gardner CD, Rottman JN, Sims H, Bartelds B, Khuchua Z, Sindhal R, Ni G, Strauss AW. (2006) Abnormal mitochondrial bioenergetics and heart rate dysfunction in mice lacking very-long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 290:H1289-97.
Bennett MJ, Russell LK, Tokunaga C, Narayan SB, Tan L, Seegmiller A, Boriack RL, Strauss AW. (2006) Reye-like syndrome resulting from novel missense mutations in mitochondrial medium- and short-chain l-3-hydroxy-acyl-CoA dehydrogenase. Mol Genet Metab. 89:74-9.
Strauss AW. (2005) Surprising? Perhaps not. Long-chain fatty acid oxidation during human fetal development. Pediatr Res. 57:753-4.
Spiekerkoetter U, Tokunaga C, Wendel U, Mayatepek E, Ijlst L, Vaz FM, van Vlies N, Overmars H, Duran M, Wijburg FA, Wanders RJ, Strauss AW. (2005) Tissue carnitine homeostasis in very-long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase-deficient mice. Pediatr Res. 57:760-4.
Shekhawat PS, Matern D, Strauss AW. (2005) Fetal fatty acid oxidation disorders, their effect on maternal health and neonatal outcome: impact of expanded newborn screening on their diagnosis and management. Pediatr Res. 57:78R-86R.
Djouadi F, Aubey F, Schlemmer D, Ruiter JP, Wanders RJ, Strauss AW, Bastin J. (2005) Bezafibrate increases very-long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase protein and mRNA expression in deficient fibroblasts and is a potential therapy for fatty acid oxidation disorders. Hum Mol Genet. 14:2695-703.
Browning MF, Larson C, Strauss A, Marsden DL. (2005) Normal acylcarnitine levels during confirmation of abnormal newborn screening in long-chain fatty acid oxidation defects. J Inherit Metab Dis. 28:545-50.
Strauss AW. (2004) Tandem mass spectrometry in discovery of disorders of the metabolome. J Clin Invest. 113:354-6.
Spierkerkoetter U, Khuchua Z, Yue Z, Strauss AW. (2004) The early-onset phenotype of mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency: a lethal disorder with multiple tissue involvement. J Inherit Metab Dis. 27:294-6.
Spiekerkoetter U, Tokunaga C, Wendel U, Mayatepek E, Exil V, Duran M, Wijburg FA, Wanders RJ, Strauss AW. (2004) Changes in blood carnitine and acylcarnitine profiles of very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase-deficient mice subjected to stress. Eur J Clin Invest. 34:191-6.
Spiekerkoetter U, Khuchua Z, Yue Z, Bennett MJ, Strauss AW. (2004) General mitochondrial trifunctional protein (TFP) deficiency as a result of either alpha- or beta-subunit mutations exhibits similar phenotypes because mutations in either subunit alter TFP complex expression and subunit turnover. Pediatr Res. 55:190-6.
Spiekerkoetter U, Bennett MJ, Ben-Zeev B, Strauss AW, Tein I. (2004) Peripheral neuropathy, episodic myoglobinuria, and respiratory failure in deficiency of the mitochondrial trifunctional protein. Muscle Nerve. 29:66-72.
McKinney JT, Longo N, Hahn SH, Matern D, Rinaldo P, Strauss AW, Dobrowolski SF. (2004) Rapid, comprehensive screening of the human medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase gene. Mol Genet Metab. 82:112-20.
Strauss A, Lock JE. (2003) Pediatric cardiomyopathy--a long way to go. N Engl J Med. 348:1703-5.
Spiekerkoetter U, Sun B, Zytkovicz T, Wanders R, Strauss AW, Wendel U. (2003) MS/MS-based newborn and family screening detects asymptomatic patients with very-long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. J Pediatr. 143:335-42.
Spiekerkoetter U, Sun B, Khuchua Z, Bennett MJ, Strauss AW. (2003) Molecular and phenotypic heterogeneity in mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency due to beta-subunit mutations. Hum Mutat. 21:598-607.
Shekhawat P, Bennett MJ, Sadovsky Y, Nelson DM, Rakheja D, Strauss AW. (2003) Human placenta metabolizes fatty acids: implications for fetal fatty acid oxidation disorders and maternal liver diseases. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 284:E1098-105.
Khuchua Z, Wozniak DF, Bardgett ME, Yue Z, McDonald M, Boero J, Hartman RE, Sims H, Strauss AW. (2003) Deletion of the N-terminus of murine map2 by gene targeting disrupts hippocampal ca1 neuron architecture and alters contextual memory. Neuroscience. 119:101-11.
Exil VJ, Roberts RL, Sims H, McLaughlin JE, Malkin RA, Gardner CD, Ni G, Rottman JN, Strauss AW. (2003) Very-long-chain acyl-coenzyme a dehydrogenase deficiency in mice. Circ Res. 93:448-55.
Zytkovicz TH, Fitzgerald EF, Marsden D, Larson CA, Shih VE, Johnson DM, Strauss AW, Comeau AM, Eaton RB, Grady GF. (2001) Tandem mass spectrometric analysis for amino, organic, and fatty acid disorders in newborn dried blood spots: a two-year summary from the New England Newborn Screening Program. Clin Chem. 47:1945-55.
Ibdah JA, Paul H, Zhao Y, Binford S, Salleng K, Cline M, Matern D, Bennett MJ, Rinaldo P, Strauss AW. (2001) Lack of mitochondrial trifunctional protein in mice causes neonatal hypoglycemia and sudden death. J Clin Invest. 107:1403-9.
Barycki JJ, O'Brien LK, Strauss AW, Banaszak LJ. (2000) Sequestration of the active site by interdomain shifting. Crystallographic and spectroscopic evidence for distinct conformations of L-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase. J Biol Chem. 275:27186-96.
Ibdah JA, Bennett MJ, Rinaldo P, Zhao Y, Gibson B, Sims HF, Strauss AW. (1999) A fetal fatty-acid oxidation disorder as a cause of liver disease in pregnant women. N Engl J Med. 340:1723-31.
Justin T. Tretter, MD
Clinical Cardiology Fellow, Cardiac Imaging, Heart Institute
Clinical Cardiology Fellow, Cardiac Imaging, Heart Institute
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Pediatric cardiology; cardiac imaging
MD: St. George's University School, Grenada, West Indies.
Residency: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.
Fellowship: New York University, New York, NY.
Tretter JT, Friedberg MK, Wald RM, McElhinney DB. Defining and refining indications for transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement in patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot: contributions from anatomical and functional imaging.Int J Cardiol. 2016.
Tretter JT, Chikkabyrappa S, Spicer DE, Backer CL, Mosca RS, Anderson RH, Bhatla P. Understanding the spectrum of sinus venosus interarterial communications.Cardiol Young. 2016.
Tretter JT, Steffensen T, Westover T, Anderson RH, Spicer DE. Developmental considerations with regard to so-called absence of the leaflets of the arterial valves.Cardiol Young. 2016.
Tretter JT, Tretter EM, Rafii DY, Anderson RH, Bhatla P. Fetal diagnosis of abnormal origin of the left pulmonary artery. Echocardiography. 2016.
Tretter JT, Jones TK, McElhinney DB. Aortic wall injury related to endovascular therapy for aortic coarctation. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2015;8:e002840.
Tretter JT, Sawark AE, Anderson RH, Spicer DE. An assessment of the anatomical variation to be found in the normal tricuspid valve. Clin Anat. 2016;29:399-407.
Tretter JT, Chakravarti S, Bhatla P. Use of echocardiographic subxiphoid five-sixth area-length (bullet) method in evaluation of adequacy of borderline left ventricle in hypoplastic left heart complex. Ann Pediatr Cardiol. 2015;8:243-245.
Tretter JT, Latson Jr LA, McElhinney DB. Sequential percutaneous closure of mitral prosthetic paravalvular leak and complex communicating pseudoaneurysms of the ascending aorta and subvalvar left ventricular outflow tract. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2015.
Tretter JT, Langsner A. Timing of aortic valve intervention in pediatric chronic aortic insufficiency. Pediatr Cardiol. 2014;35:1321-1326.
Tretter JT, Kavey RE. Distinguishing cardiac syncope from vasovagal syncope in a referral population. J Pediatr. 2013;163:1618-1623.
Elaine M. Urbina, MD, MS
Director, Preventive Cardiology
Director, Preventive Cardiology
Phone 513-636-8265
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Elaine M. Urbina, MD, graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in 1988. She subsequently trained in pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco. She completed her pediatric cardiology fellowship at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1994 where she accepted an assistant professor position.
In addition to practicing clinical pediatric cardiology at Tulane, she was also director of preventive cardiology and the Pediatric Echocardiography Laboratory. Her research interests led her to join the world-renowned Bogalusa Heart Study, one of the longest running epidemiologic studies of CV risk factors in children. As co-investigator under the tutelage of Dr. Gerald S. Berenson, she initiated the non-invasive imaging program and supervised collection of CV data for over a decade.
Dr. Urbina joined Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center as associate professor within the UC Department of Pediatrics in October of 2003 and became director of preventive cardiology in 2006. This new opportunity allowed her to concentrate her clinical practice on the diagnosis and treatment of high blood pressure and cholesterol. She continues her research studies concentrating on non-invasive imaging methods to measure atherosclerosis with a focus on vascular function abnormalities using the modalities of:
Her current research includes the application of these new techniques to study the roles that pre- and post-natal nutrition, overweight, high blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes play in the development of hardening of the arteries.
MD: Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, 1988.
Residency: University of California, San Francisco, CA, 1990; Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 1991 (Pediatrics).
Fellowship: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 1994 (Pediatric Cardiology).
Certification: Pediatrics, 1991; Pediatric Cardiology, 1994.
Urbina EM, Khoury PR, McCoy C, Daniels SR, Kimball TR, Dolan LM. Cardiac and vascular consequences of pre-hypertension in youth. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). May 2011;13(5):332-342.
Urbina EM, Dolan LM, McCoy CE, Khoury PR, Daniels SR, Kimball TR. Relationship between elevated arterial stiffness and increased left ventricle mass in adolescents and young adults. J Pediatr. May 2011;158(5):715-721.
Urbina EM, Kimball TR, Khoury PR, Daniels SR, Dolan LM. Increased arterial stiffness is found in adolescents with obesity or obesity-related type 2 diabetes mellitus. J Hypertens. Aug 2010;28(8):1692-1698.
Urbina EM, Wadwa RP, Davis C, Snively BM, Dolan LM, Daniels SR, Hamman RF, Dabelea D. Prevalence of increased arterial stiffness in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus differs by measurement site and sex. J Pediatr. May 2010;156(5):731-737.
Urbina EM, Kimball TR, McCoy CE, Khoury PR, Daniels SR, Dolan LM. Youth with obesity and obesity-related type 2 diabetes mellitus demonstrate abnormalities in carotid structure and function. Circulation. Jun 2009;119(22):2913-2919.
Urbina EM, Bean JA, Daniels SR, D'Alessio D, Dolan LM. Overweight and hyperinsulinemia provide individual contributions to comprises in brachial artery distensibility in healthy adolescents and young adults: brachial distensibility in children. J Am Soc Hypertens. Jun 2007;1(3):200-207.
Urbina EM, Kieltkya L, Tsai J, Srinivasan SR, Berenson GS. Impact of multiple cardiovascular risk factors on brachial artery distensibility in young adults: The Bogalusa Heart Study. Am J Hypertens. Jun 2005;18:767-771.
Urbina EM, Srinivasan SR, Kieltyka RL, Tang R, Bond MG, Chen W, Berenson GS. Correlates of carotid artery stiffness in young adults: The Bogalusa Heart Study. Atherosclerosis. Sep 2004;176(1):157-164.
Urbina EM, Srinivasan SR, Tang R, Bond MG, Kieltyka L, Berenson GS. Impact of multiple coronary risk factors on the intima-media thickness of different segments of carotid artery in healthy young adults: The Bogalusa Heart Study. Am J Cardiol. Nov 2002;90(9):953-958.
Urbina EM, Gidding SS, Bao W, Pickoff AS, Berdusis K, Berenson GS. Effect of body size, ponderosity and blood pressure of the left ventricular growth in children and young adults in Bogalusa Heart Study. Circulation. May 1995;91(9):2400-2406.
Gruschen R. Veldtman, FRCP, MBChB
Director of Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Director of Adult Congenital Heart Disease
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General Paediatrics and Neonates, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, 1995.
Paediatric Cardiology, Leeds General Infirmary, 1999.
Fellowship: Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Toronto, 2000.
Research Fellowship: Hospital For Sick Children Toronto, 2001.
Fellowship: Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Mayo Clinic, 2002.
Fellowship: Paediatric Interventional Cardiology, 2003.
Chet R. Villa, MD
Attending Physician, Heart Institute
Attending Physician, Heart Institute
Phone 513-636-8481
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Advanced heart failure; heart transplantation; cardiomyopathy; mechanical circulatory support and transplant
Molecular mechanisms of cardiac disease
MD: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, 2007.
Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, 2010.
Wendy Whiteside, MD
Attending Cardiologist, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Attending Cardiologist, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
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Cardiac catheterization; transcatheter interventions in congenital heart disease; rotational angiography; interventional catheterization; Cardiology Consult Service; General Cardiology Outpatient Clinic
Recurrent coarctation following surgical aortic arch reconstructions; balloon angioplasty for recurrent coarctation; cholesterol levels in Fontan patients; radiation reduction in the cardiac catheterization lab
BA: Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 2002.
MD: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 2006.
Residency: Pediatrics, Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland, Oakland, CA, 2009.
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI.
Advanced Fellowship: Pediatric Interventional Cardiology, University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI.
Certifications: Pediatrics, 2009; Pediatric Cardiology, 2014.
Covi SH, Whiteside W, Yu S, Zampi JD. Pulse Fluoroscopy Radiation Reduction in a Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. Congenit Heart Dis. 2014 Jun 26.
Whiteside W, Hirsch-Romano J, Yu S, Pasquali SK, Armstrong A. Outcomes associated with balloon angioplasty for recurrent coarctation in neonatal univentricular and biventricular Norwood-type aortic arch reconstructions. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2014 Jun 1;83(7):1124-30.
Whiteside W, Tan M, Yu S, Rocchini A. Low total, low density lipoprotein, high density lipoprotein, and non-high-density-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in patients with complex congenital heart disease after Fontan palliation. J Pediatr. 2013 Jun;162(6):1199-204.
Gupta P, Whiteside W, Sabati A, Tesoro T, Gossett JM, Tobias JD, Roth SJ. Safety and efficacy of prolonged dexmedetomidine use in critically ill children with heart disease. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2012 Nov; 13(6):660-6.
Whiteside W, Saba Z, Kurio G. Postnatal growth of rhabdomyoma prior to tumor regression. Pediatr Cardiol. 2010 May; 31(4):541-4.
Li SF, Samson K, Bell M, Whiteside W, Okihara M, Prince J, Kheyfets V, Wall S. Exercise tolerance as a predictor of acute myocardial infarction in emergency department patients with potential acute coronary syndromes. J Emerg Med. 2009 Jan; 36(1):8-11.
Ivan Wilmot, MD
Heart Failure, Transplant, Ventricular Assist Device Physician
Heart Failure, Transplant, Ventricular Assist Device Physician
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Advanced heart failure; transplantation; mechanical circulatory support and transplant; cardiomyopathy
Care of children with advanced heart failure requiring mechanical circulatory support bridge to transplant; quality of life in children with heart failure, transplant and mechanical circulatory support (MCS); advanced strain imaging in evaluation of ventricular function in pediatric heart transplant patients.
Ivan Wilmot, MD, graduated summa cum laude from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Science in zoology.
In 1998 he began medical school at Emory University. His general pediatrics residency training took place at the Emory Affiliated Hospitals from 2002 to 2006. He completed his pediatric cardiology fellowship training from 2006 to 2009, and advanced fellowship in heart failure and transplant from 2009 to 2010.
His clinical and research interests focus on heart failure, cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support (MCS).
BS: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1998.
MD: Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 2002.
Residency: Emory Affiliated Hospitals, Atlanta, GA, 2005; Chief Resident: Emory Affiliated Hospitals, Atlanta, GA, 2006.
Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, 2009.
Advanced Fellowship: Heart Failure and Transplant, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, 2010.
Certification: American Board of Pediatrics; American Board of Pediatrics Sub-board of Pediatric Cardiology.
Ryan T, Jefferies J, Wilmot I. Managing Heart Failure in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease. 2014. Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2015 Feb;17(2):376.
Czosek R, Wilmot I, Jefferies J, Spar D, Anderson J, Khoury P, Knilans T. Outcomes, Arrhythmic Burden and Ambulatory Monitoring of Pediatric Patients with Left Ventricular Non-Compaction and Preserved Left Ventricular Function. AJC. 2015 April;115(7);962-6.
Fries M, Marino B, Cassedy A, Wilmot I, Jefferies J, Lorts A. Health-Related Quality of Life Assessment in Children Followed in a Cardiomyopathy Clinic. Pediatric Cardiol. 2014 Oct 7.
Stapleton GE, Wilmot I, Suh EJ. Cardiac catheterisation of patients with common arterial trunk and transposition of the great arteries. Cardiol Young. 2012 Dec:22(6), 687–690.
Dadlani GH, Braley K, Perez-Colon E, Stapleton G, Crawford M, Turpin D, Wilmot I, Freire G, Decker J, Martinez R. Long-term management of patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome: the diagnostic approach at All Children's Hospital. Cardiol Young. 2011 Dec:21 Suppl 2, 80–87.
Asante-Korang A, Jacobs JP, Ringewald J, Carapellucci J, Rosenberg K, McKenna D, McCormack J, Wilmot I, Gjeldum A, Lopez-Cepero M, Sleasman J. Management of children undergoing cardiac transplantation with high Panel Reactive Antibodies. Cardiol Young. 2011 Dec:21 Suppl 2, 124–132.
Wilmot I, Morales DL, Price JF, Rossano JW, Kim JJ, Decker JA, McGarry MC, Denfield SW, Dreyer, WJ, Towbin JA, Jeffries JL. Effectiveness of mechanical circulatory support in children with acute fulminant and persistent myocarditis. J Card Fail. 2011 June:17(6), 487–494.
Perez-Colon E, Dadlani GH, Wilmot I, Miller M. Mesalamine-induced myocarditis and coronary vasculitis in a pediatric ulcerative colitis patient: a case report. Case Rep Peditr. 2011; 524364.
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