Among the Nation's Top Programs for Children With Heart Disease
Cardiology
Members of the Division of Cardiology, founded in 1956 by Dr. Sylvia Griffiths:
- Provide state-of-the-art non-surgical interventional therapies for infants, children, and adults with congenital heart disease through transcatheter and other methods
- Manage children with severe forms of heart failure with mechanical ventricular assist devices and novel use of total artificial heart pumps
- Guide complex surgical treatment through diagnostic imaging procedures which can derive heart image replication in 2- and 3-dimensions
- Lead our field in innovative basic science, translational, and clinical research to transform the delivery of heart care and set new definitions of successful therapy
- Educate the next generation of pediatric cardiology leaders in all aspects and subdisciplines of pediatric cardiology
Our team’s ultimate goal is to cure heart disease one gene, one cell, one heart at a time through clinical, scientific, and academic excellence.
As part of NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, we are among the top pediatric cardiology programs in the U.S.
As the team that performed the first successful pediatric heart transplant in the world, we continue to be one of the largest programs in the country, offering advanced cardiac therapies for the most fragile and at-risk infants and children.
Important Milestones in 2024
- Nationally one of the busiest programs taking care of children with heart disease – top 5 surgical volumes
- Expanding our pediatric cardiology fellowship program to 6 categorical fellows each year (total of 18), in addition to continuing to increase advanced fellowship training opportunities.
- Announced the Garrett Isaac Neubauer Center for Pediatric Cardiovascular Innovation, a major research initiative, which will support major research and innovation efforts across basic, translational, and clinical sciences in pediatric cardiology and congenital heart disease.
- Inaugural Babies Heart Fund Fellow in Research – Dr. Jeannette Wong-Siegel.
New Faculty Appointments
- Simone Jhaveri, MD
- Pediatric Cardiologist and Cardiac Imager
Promotions
- Amee Shah, MD
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
- Matthew Crystal, MD
- Professor of Pediatrics
- Michael DiLorenzo, MD
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
- Aimee Layton, PhD
- Associate Professor of Applied Physiology (in Pediatrics)
Honors and Awards
- Kanwal Farooqi, MD
- Clinical Investigator Leadership Award, American Heart Association
Major Grants
- Yun Zhang, PhD
- Advancing Neonatal Tetralogy of Fallot Care with a Comprehensive Evaluation Framework $160,000. Children’s Heart Foundation.
- Amara Majeed, MD
- Development of Multidisciplinary Outpatient Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program for patients with Single Ventricle Heart Disease, $10,000. Innovation Nucleation Fund, Columbia Department of Pediatrics.
Selected Publications
- Safety and Effectiveness of Selexipag in Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension: A Retrospective Multicenter Cohort Study. Frank BS, Gentzler ER, Avitabile CM, Miller-Reed K, Pan Z, Rosenzweig EB, Ivy DD, Krishnan US. Journal of Pediatrics, Sept 2024.
- Progress in Noninvasive Surveillance for Acute Rejection in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients: A Real-World Analysis of Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA-Based Surveillance Protocol. Akabas L, Bravo SA, Zhang Y, Simonelli A, Zuckerman WA, Richmond ME, Lytrivi ID. Clinical Transplantation Oct 2024.
- Evaluating threshold for donor fraction cell-free DNA using clinically available assay for rejection in pediatric and adult heart transplantation. Deshpande SR, Zangwill SD, Richmond ME,Kindel SJ, Schroder JN, Gaglianello N, Bichell DP, Wigger MA, Knecht KR, Thrush PT, Mahle WT, North PE, Simpson PM, Zhang L, Dasgupta M, Tomita-Mitchell A, Mitchell ME.Pediatr Transplant. 2024 May
- Long-term outcomes for pediatric heart transplant recipients transitioning to adult care teams. Donald EM, Oren D, DeFilippis EM, Rubinstein G, Moeller CM, Lee HY, Maldonado A, Portera MV, Fuselier B, Jackson R, Clerkin KJ, Fried JA, Raikhelkar J, Lee SH, Latif F, Lytrivi ID, Zuckerman WA, Richmond ME, Sayer G, Uriel N.Clin Transplant. 2024 Apr
- Desmoplakin Cardiomyopathy in Pediatric Patients: A Distinct, Underrecognized Cohort of Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy. Choi NH, Cherny S, Berul CI, Goodyer WR, Howard TS, Joong A, Liberman L, Silver ES, Villa CR, Lee TM, Zuckerman WA.Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2024 Nov
- Genetic Testing Resources and Practice Patterns Among Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Programs. Godown J, Kim EH, Everitt MD, Chung WK, Lytrivi ID, Kirmani S, Kantor PF, Ware SM, Ballweg JA, Lal AK, Bansal N, Towbin J, Lipshultz SE, Lee TM.Pediatr Cardiol. 2024 May
- Valved Sano conduit improves immediate outcomes following Norwood operation compared with nonvalved Sano conduit. Beqaj H, Goldshtrom N, Linder A, Buratto E, Setton M, DiLorenzo M, Goldstone A, Barry O, Shah A, Krishnamurthy G, Bacha E, Kalfa D.J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2024 Apr.
- Disparities in resource utilisation by families of children with cardiac conditions. Chou FL, Donovan DJ, Weller RJ, Fremed MA, Glickstein JS, Krishnan US.Cardiol Young. 2024 Feb
- Assessment of Biventricular Systolic and Diastolic Function Using Conventional and Strain Echocardiography in Children with Sickle Cell Disease Surviving 1-year After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant. Harrington JK, DiLorenzo MP, Bhatia M, Boscamp N, Krishnan US.Pediatr Cardiol. 2024 Oct 4
- Cumulative Radiation Exposure and Lifetime Cancer Risk in Patients With Tetralogy of Fallot Requiring Early Intervention. Wong-Siegel JR, Glatz AC, McCracken C, Lee C, Kitahara CM, Veiga LHS, Zhang Y, Goldstein BH, Petit CJ, Qureshi AM, Nicholson GT 3rd, Law MA, Meadows J, Shahanavaz S, O'Byrne ML, Batlivala SP, Pettus J, Beshish A, Mascio CE, Romano JC, Stack KO, Asztalos I, Downing TE, Zampi JD.JACC Adv. 2024 Sep