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Pediatric Cardiology

Having a heart condition can affect your child’s life and yours as well. When the heart is functioning at its best, your child feels good and is able to be more active and engaged. Our large, robust team of pediatric cardiology and heart surgery experts are known throughout the world for providing excellent care and attaining impressive outcomes while caring for a wide range of heart conditions—from simple to extremely complex—in children of all ages.

The Pediatric Cardiology service is at the core of our nationally leading Betty Irene Moore Children’s Heart Center. At Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, our heart care starts with expert diagnostics followed by individualized, targeted care. Our comprehensive care team includes the full range of heart specialists and subspecialists (e.g., cardiologists specialized in connective tissue disorders, single ventricle hearts); cardiac nurses; experts in nutrition, occupational therapy, and mental health; and many others who can address the unique health needs of your child.

Through our multiple pediatric cardiology locations across the Bay Area and beyond, we seek to make care for your child more convenient and bring our expert care closer to home. Your child deserves to live a full and happy life. We’re here to give them that chance.

Why choose Betty Irene Moore Children’s Heart Center for your child's heart care

We care for children from around the globe suffering from heart conditions—from simple to the most complex. Our young heart patients benefit from advanced care, multidisciplinary research, and groundbreaking innovations.

By partnering with our Cardiac Imaging team and our catheterization and interventional cardiologists, we are able to provide the latest nonintrusive cardiac diagnostic tests and images for precise diagnosis of your child’s heart problem. Some of our advanced techniques include advanced echocardiography and reduced-radiation MRIs, cardiac imaging without the use of anesthesia, CT scans, and multidimensional images for better clarity—even in utero.

Our Stanford spirit and reputation for excellent research and innovation means that we provide the latest heart treatments and surgeries, some of them offered nowhere else but here. Whether it’s treating mild arrhythmia or a serious structural heart defect, we’re always exploring ways to improve children’s heart health. Our pediatric cardiology outcomes are excellent, and our heart surgeons are known for thinking outside the box to achieve impressive heart outcomes despite the complexity of issues they treat, and for offering medically complex children another chance when they believe they have none left.

Only a handful of large national heart centers, like ours, have such a robust, comprehensive team that can treat a wide variety of heart conditions. Our heart doctors are specialized and hyperspecialized in congenital (born with) and acquired (developed later) heart disease and aortic disorders. And they see a large number of patients each year, which further sharpens their expertise. It’s why doctors and families from all over the world partner with us to care for the sickest heart patients. Our culture is one of teamwork, where heart doctors and heart surgeons collaborate closely with your provider—and with you, the family, at the center.

Here are some of the heart services and programs we can offer to children with heart conditions given our specialization and focus:

Cardiac imaging: We offer our young heart patients a wide range of leading-edge imaging techniques, including echocardiography, fetal echocardiography, transesophageal and intraoperative echocardiography, MRI, CT, and angiography.
Pediatric vascular research lab: A specialized lab that identifies children at risk for atherosclerosis and vascular disease at an early age.
Electrophysiology and arrhythmia: We offer expert diagnosis for children with irregular heartbeats (e.g., arrhythmia) and employ various treatments to address these issues (e.g., pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators or ICDs, transcatheter ablation, and more).
Cardiac catheterization and interventional cardiology: Our team of highly specialized cardiologists offer minimally invasive surgical techniques for advanced diagnostics and heart repair, which can mean a faster recovery for your child. Procedures include cardiac catheterization, angiography (images of the heart vessels), and preterm PDA closure, along with a variety of nonsurgical, minimally invasive procedures.
Cardiovascular connective tissue disorders: We provide expert holistic evaluation and individualized care for children with Marfan, Williams, and Loeys-Dietz syndromes, and other related inherited disorders of the aortic valve.
Exercise and heart disease prevention: We study your child’s heart function with cardiopulmonary exercise stress testing, providing evaluation for athletic participation, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia.
Pulmonary vascular disease: The lungs and heart work together to deliver oxygen to the body. We evaluate and care for pulmonary hypertension and provide expert care for children with both heart and lung disease in our Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program. We also offer our bridge-to-transplant treatments for children with advanced PH and severe lung disease in our Center for Advanced Lung (CEAL) Therapies.
Single Ventricle Program: A program for children born with one heart ventricle versus two.
Pediatric Advanced Cardiac Therapies (PACT) program: Excellent, deeply specialized and tailored care team for children with heart failure, including care for cardiomyopathy and children with heart transplantation, and heart-lung and lung transplantation needs.
Stanford Adult Congenital Heart Program: Comprehensive care and support for teens and young adults with congenital heart defects, including a smooth and expert transition to adult care thanks to our partnership with Stanford Hospital (the adult hospital).

Pediatric Cardiology Patient Stories

Pediatric Cardiology Care Team

Anne Dubin, MD

Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology | Director of the Betty Irene Moore Children's Heart Center

Cardiology

Gregory Adamson, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

Claudia Algaze, MD

Director, Cardiovascular Tissue Disorders Program

Cardiology

Christopher Almond, MD

Director, Cardiac Anticoagulation Services

Cardiology

Alisa Arunamata, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

Ritu Asija, MD

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

David Axelrod, MD

Co-Lead, CVICU Simulation Training Program

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Maria Batsis, MD

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Meaghan Beattie, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

Daniel Bernstein, MD

Alfred Woodley Salter and Mabel G. Salter Endowed Professor in Pediatrics

Cardiology

Joshua Blinder, MD

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Sujatha Buddhe, MD

Cardiology

Anjuli Sinha Campbell, MD

Cardiology

John Caton, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

Scott Ceresnak, MD

Director, Pediatric Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia

Cardiology

Chiu-Yu Chen, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

Henry Chubb, MD, PhD

Pediatric Cardiology

Gurpreet Dhillon, MD

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

John Dykes, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

Jeffrey Feinstein, MD

Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease | Vera Moulton Wall Center Director

Cardiology

Heather Giacone, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

William Goodyer, MD, PhD

Pediatric Cardiology

Stafford Grady, MD

Director, Outreach

Cardiology

Christiane Haeffele, MD, MPH

Cardiovascular Disease

Brian Han, MD

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Bronwyn Harris, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

Deborah Ho, MD, MPH

Director, Complex Biventricular Reconstruction Program | Associate Chief, Ambulatory Pediatric Cardiology

Cardiology

Seth Hollander, MD

Medical Director of Heart Transplantation

Cardiology

Rachel Hopper, MD

Associate Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease | Co-Director, Center for Advanced Lung (CEAL) Therapies

Cardiology

Rebecca Kameny, MD

Co-Director, Center for Advanced Lung (CEAL) Therapies

Critical Care Medicine

Michelle Kaplinski, MD

Director, Fetal Cardiology Program

Cardiology

Beth Kaufman, MD

Director, Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Program

Cardiology

Alaina Kipps, MD

Director, 3 West Cardiology Acute Care Ward

Cardiology

David Kwiatkowski, MD

Interim Medical Director of the CVICU

Cardiology

Kyong-Jin Lee, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

Cecilio (Leo) Lopez, MD

Cardiology

George Lui, MD

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Kenneth Mah, MD

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Shiraz Maskatia, MD

Director, Coronary Anomalies Program (CAP)

Pediatric Cardiology

Doff McElhinney, MD

Director of Pulmonary Artery Reconstruction Program

Cardiology

Kara Motonaga, MD

Associate Director, Pediatric Arrhythmia

Cardiology

Asha Nair, MD

Medical Director, Pediatric Bloodless Cardiac Surgery Program

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Martha Nicholson, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

Inger Olson, MD

Director, Young Hearts in Motion Program | Director, Exercise Testing Laboratory

Cardiology

Meghna Patel, MD

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Lynn Peng, MD

Director, Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Cardiology

Cardiology

Elizabeth Profita, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

Rajesh Punn, MD

Director of Ambulatory Cardiology

Cardiology

Neha Purkey, MD

Marlene Rabinovitch, MD

Dwight and Vera Dunlevie Professor in Pediatric Cardiology

Cardiology

Alice Ramirez, MD

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Sushma Reddy, MD

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Charitha Reddy, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

Anitra Romfh, MD

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

David Rosenthal, MD

Director, PACT Program | Director, Thoracic Organ Transplantation Program

Cardiology

Stephen Roth, MD, MPH

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Kathleen Ryan, MD

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Anar Shah, DO

Pediatric Cardiology

Andrew Shin, MD

Associate Section Chief of Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Theresa Tacy, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

Elif Seda Selamet Tierney, MD

Director, Pediatric Echocardiography Laboratory | Director, Pediatric Vascular Laboratory

Cardiology

Vamsi Yarlagadda, MD

Director of Inpatient Services

Cardiology

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