Clinical Interests

Cardiac intensive care; single ventricle physiology; aortic and mitral valve disease; cardiopulmonary interaction

Research Interests

Intensive care outcomes; quality of life assesment in children and adolescents with congenital and acquired heart disease; aortic valve and mitral valve surgical outcomes; cardiopulmonary interaction (shock and cardiac arrest).

MD: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 1994.

MPP: Harvard University/John F. Kennedy School of Government (Masters in Public Policy - Health Care Policy), Boston, MA, 1994.

MSCE: University of Pennsylvania/Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, (Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology), Philadelphia, PA, 2005.

Residency: Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, 1997.

Fellowships: Combined Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2002.

Certification:
American Board of Pediatrics 1997, Recertification 2004;
Sub-Board of Pediatric Cardiology 2000;
Sub-Board of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2002.

Anderson JB, Marino BS, Irving SY, García-España JF, Ravishankar C, Stallings VA, Medoff-Cooper B. Poor post-operative growth in infants with two-ventricle physiology. Cardiol Young. 2011 Mar 9:1-9.

Anderson JB, Kalkwarf HJ, Kehl JE, Eghtesady P, Marino BS. Low Weight-for-Age Z-Score and Infection Risk After the Fontan Procedure. Ann Thorac Surg. 2011 Mar 4.

Goldberg DJ, French B, McBride MG, Marino BS, Mirarchi N, Hanna BD, Wernovsky G, Paridon SA, Rychik J. Impact of Oral Sildenafil on Exercise Performance in Children and Young Adults After Fontan Operation: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled, Crossover Trial. Circulation. 2011 Mar 7.

Marino BS, Drotar D, Cassedy A, Davis R, Tomlinson RS, Mellion K, Mussatto K, Mahony L, Newburger JW, Tong E, Cohen MI, Helfaer MA, Kazak AE, Wray J, Wernovsky G, Shea JA, Ittenbach R. External Validity of the Pediatric Cardiac Quality of Life Inventory. Quality of Life Research. 2011 Mar;20(2):205-14.

Manning PB, Rutter MJ, Lisec A, Gupta R, Marino BS. One slide fits all: the versatility of slide tracheoplasty with cardiopulmonary bypass support for airway reconstruction in children. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2011 Jan;141(1):155-61.

Marino BS, Tomlinson RS, Wernovsky G, Drotar D, Newburger JW, Mahony L, Mussatto K, Tong E, Cohen M, Andersen C, Shera D, Khoury P, Wray J, Gaynor WJ, Helfaer MA, Kazak AE, Shea JA. Evaluation of Health-related Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents with Congenital or Acquired Heart Disease: Validation of the Pediatric Cardiac Quality of Life Inventory. Pediatrics. 2010;126:1-11.

Kleinman ME, Chameides L, Schexnayder SM, Samson RA, Hazinski MF, Atkins DL, Berg MD, de Caen A, Fink E, Freid E, Hickey R, Marino BS, Nadkarni VM, Proctor L, Qureshi F, Sartorelli K, Topjian A, van der Jagt E, Zaritsky AL. Pediatric Advance Life Support. Circulation. 2010;122(18 Suppl 3):S876-S908. 

Marino BS, Tomlinson RS, Drotar D, Claybon ES, Aguirre A, Ittenbach R, Welkom JS, Helfaer MA, Wernovsky G, Shea JA. Quality-of-life concerns differ among patients, parents, and medical providers in children and adolescents with congenital and acquired heart disease. Pediatrics. 2009;123(4):e708-15.

Marino BS, Shera D, Wernovsky G, Tomlinson RS, Aguirre A, Gallagher M, Lee A, Cho C, Stern W, Davis L, Tong E, Teitel D, Mussatto K, Ghanayem N, Gleason, M, Gaynor JW, Wray J, Helfaer MA, Shea JA. The development of the Pediatric Cardiac Quality of Life Inventory: a quality of life measure for children and adolescents with heart disease. Quality of Life Research. 2008;17(4):613-626.

Marino BS, Kruge LE, Cho CJ, Tomlinson RS, Shera D, Weinberg PM, Gaynor JW, Rychik J. Parachute mitral valve: morphologic descriptors, associated lesions, and outcomes after biventricular repair. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2008;137:385-393.