Research
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.
Research Faculty
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Name
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Areas of Special Interest
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| Brenda Armstrong, MD | Medical education, cardiac catheterization |
| Piers Barker, MD | Fetal cardiology, cardiac imaging (echo, MRI) |
| Cardiac imaging (echo), quality improvement | |
| Cardiac imaging (echo, MRI) | |
| Michael P. Carboni, MD | Arrhythmias, heart failure/transplantation, multicenter heart failure and transplant studies including PUMPkin network (mechanical cardiac assist devices for children) |
| Gregory A. Fleming, MD, MSCI |
Assessment and development of interventional therapies for children with congenital heart disease, perioperative management of infants and children with congenital heart disease requiring surgery |
| Heather T. Henderson, MD | Multicenter heart failure and transplant studies including PUMPkin network (mechanical cardiac assist devices for children) |
| Kevin D. Hill, MD, MS | Outcomes, drug and device trials, short and long term safety and efficacy of interventions and hemodynamic effects of interventions |
| Mary Hutson, PhD | Cardiovascular defects, especially those related to the arterial pole |
| Arrhythmias | |
| 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) |
| 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
- 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
Clinical Trials
Jennifer Li, MD, Chief of Pediatric Cardiology Research, has several research interests including pediatric hypertension and hyperlipidemia, heart failure in patients with congenital heart disease, thrombosis in patients with congenital heart disease, and enzyme replacement in Pompe disease.
For further information about clinical trials currently being conducted in the Division of Cardiology, please visit Dukechildrens.org.