NeoHeart 2018 Faculty
Assistant Director, Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Medical Director, Pediatric Pain Management & Palliative Care Services Children’s Medical Center, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Management
Alan Farrow-Gillespie, M.D.
Pediatric Anesthesiologist
Children’s Health
Clinical Associate Professor
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Stephen Q. Hoang, MD
Co-Lead, CVICU Simulation Training Program, Clinical Associate Professor
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University
David Axelrod, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor in Neonatal and Developmental Medicine,
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University
Shazia Bhombal, M.D.
Pediatric Cardiology, Electrophysiologist
Cook Children’s
Greg Barker, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Ohio State University College of Medicine Attending Neonatologist and Attending Cardiologist, Nationwide Children’s
Carl Backes, M.D.
Mitchell I. Cohen, M.D., FACC, FHRS
John Costello, M.D.
Director, Pediatric Lymphatic Imaging and Interventions, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Yoav Dori, M.D.
Associate Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Center, Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Cardiology), Columbia University Medical Center
Usha Krishnan, M.D.
Medical Director of Quality, Heart Center, Cook Children’s
James Kuo, M.D.
Medical Director, Cardiac MRI, 3-D aPPROaCH Lab, Cook Children’s
Steve Muyskens, M.D.
Alan Nugent, MBBS, FRACP
Professor Emeritus, Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology, UCSF Medical School
Abraham Rudolph, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists
Shyam Sathanandam, M.D.
Pediatric Cardiologist Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University
Shawn Sen, M.D.
Consultant Neonatologist and Expertise in Pediatric Cardiology and Associate Lecturer Addenbrooke’s Cambridge University Hospitals
Yogen Singh, MBBA
Director, Fetal Cardiology Program
Boston Children’s Hospital
Wayne Tworetzky, M.D.
Senior Consultant, Cardiac Intensive Care and Pediatric Cardiology Children’s National Medical Center
Gil Wernovsky, M.D., FAAP, FACC
Professor with Tenure, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Section of Critical Care Medicine and Cardiology, Texas Children’s Hospital
Ron Bronicki, M.D.
Professor of Pediatric Critical Care, Baylor College of Medicine Medical Director, Pediatric CICU, Texas Children’s Hospital
Paul Checchia, M.D.
Medical Director, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, Co-director, Center for Acute Care Nephrology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
David Cooper, M.D.
Director of the Pediatric Critical Care, Fellowship Program, UT Southwestern
Michael Green, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics – Cardiology, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University
David Kwiatkowski, M.D.
Cardiac Intensive Care, Cook Children’s
Lane Lanier, M.D.
Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Clinical, Director, Center for Pediatric Nanomedicine, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Kevin Maher, M.D.
Cardiac Intensive Care, Cook Children’s
Jose Olarte-Motta, M.D.
Andrew Smith, M.D., MSCI, MMHC
Assistant Professor, Division of Neonatology, Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University
Gabriel Altit, M.D., FRCPC
Neonatal – Cardiac Intensive Care, Children’s Hospital of Orange County
Amir Ashrafi, M.D.
ECMO Director, Regional Director of Neonatology, Children’s Hospital of Orange County
John Patrick Cleary, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center
Nimrod Goldshtrom, M.D.
Neonatologist, NICU ECMO Director, Fort Worth Pediatrix Neonatology Group
Rekha Hamilton, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Director, Neonatal Cardiac Care
NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley
Children’s Hospital
Ganga Krishnamurthy, M.D.
Neonatologist; Atlantic Health System Adjunct Instructor, Washington University School of Medicine
Phillip T. Levy, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics Section Head, Clinical Research Newborn and Infant Critical Care Unit, USC Division of Neonatal Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Shahab Noori, M.D., MS CBTI, RDCS
Professor of Pediatrics-Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York, Director of the Division of Neonatology, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian
Richard Polin, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology), Northwestern University Co-director of Pulmonary Hypertension Program; Associate Director of Lurie Children’s NICU
Nicolas Porta, M.D.
Director, Center for Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Professor of Pediatrics, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA Honorary Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Istvan Seri, M.D., Ph.D., Hon.D.
Associate Professor/Neonatal Cardiac Intensivist/Medical Director, RNICU/ Director, Nosocomial Infection Prevention (CLABSA) Program
Rune Toms, M.D.
Pediatric Surgery, Cook Children’s
Marty Knott, D.O., Ph.D.
Division Director, Pediatric and Congenital Cardiothoracic Surgery Co-director, Heart Center – UT Southwestern Medical Center
Robert Jaquiss, M.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cook Children’s
Hisashi Nikaidoh, M.D.
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Thomas Spray, M.D.
Medical Director- Cardiothoracic Surgery Cook Children’s
Vincent Tam, M.D.
Cardiac Intensive Care, Cook Children’s
Rebeccah Collingsworth, BSN, RN, CPN, CCRN
Cardiac Intensive Care, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Karen Corlett, MSN, CPNP-AC/PC
Cardiac Intensive Care, Cook Children’s
Melissa Gilbreath, MSN, RN, CPN
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Cook Children’s
Czarina Hounsel, BSN, RN
Cardiac Intensive Care, Children’s Health
Kristina Kuo, MSN, MPH, CPNP-AC
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit,
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
Cook Children’s