Division of Pediatric Cardiology

Research Overview

The faculty and fellows in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology have a wide variety of research interests in clinical, translational, and basic investigation related to childhood heart disease.

Faculty & Staff

Name	Areas of Interest
Brenda Armstrong, MD	Medical education, cardiac catheterization
Piers Barker, MD	Fetal cardiology, cardiac imaging (echo, MRI)
Michael Camitta, MD	Cardiac imaging (echo), quality improvement
M. Jay Campbell, MD	Cardiac imaging (echo, MRI)
Michael P. Carboni, MD	Arrhythmias, heart failure/transplantation
J. Curt Fudge, MD	Cardiac devices, percutaneious interventions
Salim F. Idriss MD, PhD	Arrhythmias
Mary Hutson, PhD	Cardiovascular defects, especially those related to the arterial pole
Ronald J. Kanter, MD	Arrhythmias, syncope, autonomic dysfunction
Margaret Kirby, PhD	Etiology and pathogenesis of congenital heart defects
Jennifer Li, MD, MHS	Hypertension, thrombosis, heart failure clinical trials
Angelo Milazzo, MD	Fetal cardiology, cardiac imaging (echo)
Stephen Miller, MD	Fetal cardiology, cardiac imaging (echo)
Sara K. Pasquali, MD	Cardiac outcomes, health services research
John F. Rhodes, Jr., MD	Cardiac devices, percutaneious interventions
Stephanie B. Wechsler, MD	Cardiac genetics (Marfan syndrome, muscular dystrophies)

Clinical Research

Participation in trials conducted by the Pediatric Heart Network funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute:

Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Kawasaki Disease
Cardiomyopathy
Marfan Syndrome
Atrioventricular Canal
Fontan

Other clinical trials in:

RSV vaccines
Hypertension
Heart failure
Thrombosis
Supraventricular tachycardia

Cardiac imaging:

3D echo
Torsion
Strain-rate
MRI

Assessment of various devices to repair congenital cardiac lesions

Atrial septal defect/patent foramen ovale (device occluder)
Ventricularr septal defect (device occluder)
Coarctation of the aorta (stents)
Cutting balloon for relief of pulmonary artery obstruction
Percutaneous pulmonary valve

Outcomes assessment following:

Congenital heart surgery
Radiofrequency ablation
Heart transplantation
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)

Translational/Basic Research

Stability of Cardiac Response to Pacing
Study of the complex and nonlinear response of the cardiac electrical system to rapid pacing in order to understand and potentially prevent the transition from a stable to an unstable cardiac rhythm utilizing multifaceted experimental and theoretical methods to drive the development of computer models.

Fellow Research

Current and recent fellows have worked on the following projects:

Glycogen Storage Disease/Pompe Disease clinical trials
Outcomes of children undergoing surgery in the Society of Thoracic Surgery Congenital Heart Database
Pediatric hypertension clinical trials
Endothelial signaling pathways that regulate angiogenesis and vascular remodeling
Doppler assessment of mesenteric artery flow in Sano vs. BT shunts in HLHS