NAVIGATION

Faculty

Faculty

A national group of experts in basic science
and clinical electrophysiology and cardiology

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Director, Long QT Syndrome/Genetic Heart Rhythm Clinic and the Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory,
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Michael Ackerman, MD, PhD

Rochester, MN

Director, Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Research, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

D. Woodrow Benson, MD, PhD

Milwaukee, WI

Chief, Pediatric Cardiology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA.

Stuart Berger, MD

Sacramento, CA

Team leader, Electrophysiology Division, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON

Christine Chiu-Man, MSC

Toronto, ON

Director, Pediatric Electrophysiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Bloomberg Childrens Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Jane Crosson, MD

Baltimore, MD

Electrophysiology Nurse Practitioner, C. S. Mott Childrens Hospital and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Brynn Dechert-Crooks, CPNP

Ann Arbor, MI

Director, Electrophysiology and Pacing, Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE

Christopher Erickson, MD

Omaha, NE

Electrophysiology Nurse Practitioner, Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, Palo Alto, CA

Debra Hanisch, CPNP

Palo Alto, CA

Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Service, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Rachel Lampert, MD

New Haven, CT

Ronald and Helen Ross Distinguished Chair, Pediatric Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Elizabeth Saarel, MD

Cleveland, OH

Division Head, Pediatric Cardiology and Medical Director, BCCH Heart Centre, British Columbia Childrens Hospital, Vancouver, BC

Shubhayan Sanatani, MD

Vancouver, BC

Director, Inherited Cardiac Arrhythmias Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Dominic Abrams, MBBS

Boston, MA

Vice chair, Department of Pediatrics and Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA

Anjan Batra, MD

Irvine, CA

Interventional electrophysiologist, Wolfson’s Children’s Hospital, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL

Randall M. Bryant, MD

Jacksonville, FL

Co-director, Phoenix Children’s Heart Center and Program Director, CHC Research & Education, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ

Mitchell Cohen, MD

Phoenix, AZ

Chief Academic Officer, Children’s Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program, Sibley Heart Center Cardiology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Peter Fischbach, MD

Atlanta, GA

Electrophysiologist, Nicklaus Childrens Hospital, Miami, FL

Steven Fishberger, MD

Miami, FL

Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, Cohen Children’s Medical Center and Long island Jewish School of Medicine, New Hyde Park, NY

Richard Friedman, MD, MBA

New Hyde Park, NY

Director, Pediatric Electrophysiology, Duke University, Durham, NC

Salim Idriss, MD, PhD, BME

Durham, NC

Director, Electrophysiology, Nicklaus Childrens Hospital, Miami, FL

Ronald Kanter, MD

Miami, FL

Chief Executive Officer, Miami Children’s Health System
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Florida International University, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Narendra Kini, MD

Miami, FL

Director, Pediatric Electrophysiology, University of Iowa School of Medicine, Iowa City, IA

Ian Law, MD

Iowa City, IA

Electrophysiology Nurse Practitioner, Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL

Melissa Olen, ARNP

Miami, FL

Director, Electrophysiology, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

John Papagiannis, MD

Kansas City, MO

Cardiologist and Professor of Medicine, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL

Timothy Paterick, MD, JD, MBA

Jacksonville, FL

Chief, Pediatric Cardiology, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Michael Silka, MD

Los Angeles, CA

Electrophysiologist, Florida Hospital, Orlando, FL

Dr. Bhavya Trivedi

Orlando, FL

Director, Electrophysiology, Joe DiMaggio Childrens Hospital, Hollywood, FL

Ming-Lon Young, MD

Hollywood, FL

Director, Cardiac Intensive Care and ECG Screening Program

Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL

Anthony Rossi, MD

Miami, FL

Medical Director of Patient and Family-Centered Care and Single Ventricle Program, Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Florida International University, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Gil Wernovsky, MD

Miami, FL

Director, Electrophysiology, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Maully Shah, MBBS

Philadelphia, PA

Exercise physiologist, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Paul Stephens, Jr, MD

Philadelphia, PA

Director, Electrophysiology, Hope Children’s Hospital, Oak Lawn, IL

Frank Zimmerman, MD

Oak Lawn, IL

Host Faculty

Organizing Committee and Faculty from the Heart Program at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital

Yvette Alessi, BA

Program Coordinator

Melissa Olen, ARNP

Coordinator, CRMD Remote Monitoring Program

Steven Fishberger, MD

Electrophysiologist

Anthony Rossi, MD

Director, CICU

Mary E. Hickcox

CME Program Coordinator
CHOC Children’s Orange, CA

Narendra Kini, MD

Chief Executive Officer, Miami Children’s health System

Flavia Llizo, BS

Executive Director, Major Gifts and Development Miami Children’s Health Foundation

Brent Cox, MSHA, MBA

Heart Program Service Line manager

Juan Rabionet, AA

Manager, Biomedical Photography

Rani Gereige, MD

Director, Continuing Medical Education

Gil Wernovsky, MD

Medical Director, Patient and Family-Centered Care and Single Ventricle Program

Anjan Batra, MD

Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics and Chief, Division of pediatric Cardiology University of California Irvine Irvine, CA

Carmen Pages

Senior Marketing/Service Line Brand Coordinator

Beatriz (Betty) Galan, BA

Director of Major Gifts
Miami Children’s health Foundation

Richard Simon

Heart Program Service Line Administrator

Ronald Kanter, MD

Director, Electrophysiology