Meet the Team
Meet our Experts
Co-Directors
Research Interests
Outcomes and quality assessment of perioperative care for congenital heart disease; multi-institutional collaborative quality improvement
Research Interests
Clinical and translational research related to mechanical circulatory support and tissue engineering
Faculty
Jeffrey B. Anderson, MD, MPH, MBA
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Research population health; health equity; congenital heart disease
Awais Ashfaq, MD, FACC, FACS
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Surgery
Research Interests
Ex-vivo perfusion; partial heart transplant
Sarosh "Shawn" P. Batlivala, MD, MSCI
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Interventions for congenital heart disease; newborn screening for congenital heart defects; proteomic analysis of patients with congenital heart...
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Rheumatic fever/heart disease
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Multicenter clinical studies; perinatal outcomes in congenital heart disease
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Acute/chronic kidney injury; anticoagulation on extracorporeal support; abnormal sleep patterns in patients with congenital heart disease;...
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Pulmonary hypertension; bronchopulmonary dysplasia; pediatric cardiology
Allison A. Divanovic, MD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Echocardiographic predictors of cardiac involvement in the fetus with twin-twin transfusion syndrome; risk factors for intrauterine fetal demise in...
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Critical care nephrology; outcomes research
Stuart L. Goldstein, MD, FAAP, FNKF
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Acute kidney injury epidemiology and biomarkers; heart failure associated chronic kidney disease; nephrotoxic medication associated acute kidney...
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Cardiovascular diseases; laminopathies; progeria; chromosome organization; transcriptional regulation; nuclear envelope
Nadine A. Kasparian, PhD, MAPS
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Emotional and mental healthcare of those affected by heart disease; mental health; neurodevelopment; neurobiological responses to stress;...
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Clinical translation of outpatient telemedicine
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Methods for more successful and less invasive treatment of heart rhythm problems
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Appropriate clinical use of echocardiograms; advanced imaging including CMR and CT
David Lehenbauer, MD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Myocardial remodeling
Cat A. Makarewich, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Douglas Millay , PhD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Andrew Misfeldt, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Outcomes; mechanical circulatory support; chronic critical illness
Research Interests
Clinical and translational research related to mechanical circulatory support and tissue engineering
Alexander Opotowsky, MD, MMSc
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Adult congenital heart disease; exercise testing and physiology; biomarkers; biobanking; pulmonary hypertension; pulmonary vascular disease; right...
Research Interests
Mechanical circulatory support; ventricular assist devices in pediatrics; anticoagulation on extracorporeal support; outcomes
Adam W. Powell, MD, MS, FACC
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in congenital and acquired heart disease; hematological and oncological disorders and genetic disease; fitness in...
Mattia Quattrocelli, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Muscle and heart physiology; pharmacology; epigenetics; metabolism
James A. Reagor, MPS, CCP, FPP
Associate Professor, UC Department of Surgery
Kristin Schneider, MD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Shabana Shahanavaz, MD, MBBS
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Research focused on catheter-based intervention for treatment of congenital heart defects, clinical trials in congenital interventional...
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Obesity treatment and prevention; exercise and behavioral economic interventions
Research Interests
Effect of CV risk factors on non-invasive measures of the heart and arteries
Joshua S. Waxman, PhD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Cardiac development; heart regeneration; congenital heart defects; molecular signaling pathways; transcription factors; retinoid acid signaling;...
Derek Weyhrauch, MD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Pediatric cardiology; health care quality and outcomes; big data analytics; lipid disorder, hypertension, and obesity clinical outcomes
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Care of children with advanced heart failure requiring mechanical circulatory support; quality of life in children with heart failure; transplant and...
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Early life influences on the development of pediatric obesity; severe obesity in childhood; breastfeeding and complementary food; life-course...
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