Ventricular Septal Defect
Tamara Gomez Kalhan
<p>Tamara Kalhan, MD, FAAP, is Medical Director, Low Birthweight Evaluation and Assessment Program (LEAP) Clinic and Director, Neonatal Education, Wakefield Division at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein and Course Director, Medicine Electives in Neonatology and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her clinical focus is on neonatal outcomes for premature infants, low birth weight infants and infants requiring extended Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) hospitalizations.</p><p>Dr. Kalhan earned her Doctor of Medicine in 2009 at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency in 2012 at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, followed by a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at Columbia University, where she was Chief Fellow in her final year of training in 2015.</p><p>Dr. Kalhan’s research interests and expertise include improving follow-up care and neonatal outcomes in high-risk infant populations, with an emphasis on early detection of cerebral palsy. She has been co-investigator on research projects and has shared her work through peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, review articles and case reports, abstracts, platform presentations and poster presentations.</p><p>Dr. Kalhan is board certified in General Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics.</p>
Daphne T. Hsu
<p>Dr. Hsu’s main research efforts focus on improving outcomes in children and young adults with congenital heart disease and acquired heart diseases of childhood. She has published extensively in the fields of pediatric cardiomyopathy and pediatric heart transplantation. She has conducted outcomes research in drug therapies in the treatmen of pediatric heart failure. She also has a strong interest in the emerging field of adult congenital heart disease. She has served in leadership positions in the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics and is a member of the American Pediatric Society.</p>
<p>Dr. Hsu is one of the nation's leading experts in children's heart failure and heart transplant. Dr. Hsu brings specialized medical skills, decades of experience-and extraordinary commitment-to the care of children with complex heart disease. She conducts ongoing clinical research and has participated in many US multi-center studies on children's cardiomyopathies, medical and catheter-based therapy for heart disease in children and heart transplant. She is a nationally recongized pediatric cardiologic thought-leader.</p>
<p>Dr. Daphne Hsu, is one of the nation's leading experts in children's heart failure and heart transplant. Dr. Hsu has treated more than 600 children with heart failure and more than 250 children undergoing heart transplant. Past director of Pediatric Heart Failure at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Hsu brings unique specialized medical skills, decades of experience-and extraordinary commitment-to the care of your child with complex heart disease.</p><p>When your child is being considered for a heart transplant, Dr. Hsu provides expert evaluation. Before, during and after surgery, she manages the full-spectrum, customized medical therapy-and hands-on specialized care-your child needs for successful heart transplant.</p><p>In addition to managing her busy practice, Dr. Hsu conducts ongoing clinical research and is a nationally recognized pediatric cardiologic thought-leader.</p><p>Since beginning her career in 1987, Dr. Hsu has participated in many important US multi-center studies on children's cardiomyopathies, medical and catheter-based therapy for heart disease in children and heart transplant. Dr. Hsu served on the end-point and steering committee of the only multi-centered, placebo-controlled trial studying the effect of Carvedilol in pediatric heart failure patients.</p><p>Past president and board member of the Pediatric Heart Transplant Study Group, Dr. Hsu also sits on the boards of the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry and the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Committee for the American Heart Association. In addition to authoring dozens of peer-reviewed cardiologic studies (link: p. 41), Dr. Hsu reviews pediatric cardiologic-related grants for the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health and is a member of the Sub Board of Pediatric Cardiology of the American Board of Pediatrics.</p><p>Dr. Hsu was drawn to pediatric cardiology early in her career. "I like being able to care for the sickest children," she explains. Children with heart failure "have a terrible disease," says Dr. Hsu. "You have to figure out what it is. You have to treat it quickly. And you have to do it well-and then you can follow them for the rest of their lives." Lasting relationships with her patients-and their families-are for Dr. Hsu among the most rewarding aspects her work. "You can share with the family the joy of this child who is doing so beautifully because you know where they've come from."</p>
Abdul Haleem
<p>Lung Mechanics and Gentle Ventilation to prevent Volutruma.</p>
Manoj Gupta
<p>Manoj Gupta, MBBS, MD, is an Attending Physician in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and an Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He specializes in noninvasive pediatric cardiology, with special interests in sports cardiology and congenital heart disease in young patients. Dr. Gupta joined Montefiore in 2018.</p><p>Dr. Gupta received his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at Lokmarya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Sion Hospital in Mumbai, India in 2003. He completed a junior residency at DDU Hospital in Delhi, India from 2003 to 2004 and then completed a residency in Pediatrics in 2008 at Maharaja Agrasen Hospital. In 2009, Dr. Gupta started another residency in Pediatrics at Sparrow Hospital, Michigan State University and completed that in 2012. In 2015, he completed a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at Case Medical Center. </p><p>Dr. Gupta treats all cardiac conditions for inpatient, ICU and outpatients, ranging from infancy through young adults. This spans everything from complex congenital heart disease to acquired heart conditions. He has extensive teaching experience from medical students to residents at various institutions over last 10 years.</p><p>Dr. Gupta has had his clinical research work on pediatric health published in numerous journals.</p><p>Dr. Gupta is board certified in both Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a member of numerous professional societies, including the American College of Cardiology and the American Academy of Pediatrics. </p>
Jay N. Gross
<p>Dr. Gross specializes in complex electrophysiology (EP) management problems as well as issues related to implantation and management of all types of implantable electrical devices, with a focus on lead extraction.</p>
<p>Dr. Gross has been a principal site or co-investigator in many of the critical clinical trials that have established the utility and indications for pacemaker mode selection, rate modulated pacing, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), and cardiac resynchronization therapy. Most recently, he has been involved in studies designed to define the role of temporary external defibrillator systems and the safety of implantable devices in the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) setting. He has also been principal or co-author of dozens of scientific publications.</p>
<p>Jay N. Gross, MD, serves as an Attending Physician and Director of the Implantable Electrical Devices Service at Montefiore, as well as Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at our <a href="http://www.einstein.yu.edu/faculty/2274/jay-gross/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Albert Einstein College of Medicine</a>. His clinical focus is on complex electrophysiology (EP) management problems as well as issues related to implantation and management of all types of implantable electrical devices, with a focus on lead extraction.</p><p>After graduating from our Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completing his residency at Montefiore in Internal Medicine, Dr. Gross continued on to complete a cardiology fellowship at Montefiore. <br /><br />Dr. Gross has been a principal site or co-investigator in many of the critical clinical trials that have established the utility and indications for pacemaker mode selection, rate-modulated pacing, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), and cardiac resynchronization therapy. Most recently, he has been involved in studies designed to define the role of temporary external defibrillator systems and the safety of implantable devices in the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) setting. He has also been principal or co-author of dozens of scientific publications.</p><p>Recent clinical highlights for Dr. Gross include: the first reported cases of implantation of subcutaneous ICDs in heart transplant patients, simultaneous lead extraction and debulking of large vegetations in patients with endocarditis, concomitant lead extraction and implantation of leadless pacemakers, and care for of congenital heart patients who require both transvenously implanted devices and subcutaneous ICDs.</p><p>Dr. Gross is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Cardiovascular Electrophysiology as well as a Certified Cardiac Device Specialist (CCDS) by the International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the Heart Rhythm Society. Dr. Gross has served on the Writing Committee of the International Board of Heart Rhythm Board of Examiners for over two decades and now serves on its board of directors. He has been named to the Castle Connolly/NY Magazine List of Best EP Doctors in New York for the past two years.</p>
Samuel V. Gorstein
<p>Samuel Gorstein, MD, is Director, Resident Education, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein (CHAM) and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Gorstein’s clinical focus is on the care of critically ill infants, children and adolescents, focusing on conditions requiring intensive monitoring, life support and complex interventions, such as respiratory failure, sepsis, trauma and post-surgical recovery.
</p><p>After obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Biophysics from Brown University, Dr. Gorstein attended the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he received his Doctor of Medicine in 2009. He then began his postgraduate training with an internship and residency in Pediatrics at Baystate Medical Center from 2009 to 2012. In 2015, he completed a fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at Massachusetts General Hospital. </p><p>Dr. Gorstein oversees resident education in the PICU and has developed a didactic curriculum for residents rotating through the PICU at CHAM. His research aligns with his clinical expertise, and his work has been shared through peer-reviewed publications, invited presentations, abstracts, and poster presentations at professional meetings. </p><p>Dr. Gorstein is board-certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. He is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
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Beatrice Goilav
<p>Pediatric Nephrology, lupus nephritis</p>
Polycystic kidney disease; lupus nephritis; biomarkers of acute kidney injury
The role of microRNAs in the development of lupus nephritis and their role in the modulation of the expression of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) and as urinary biomarkers of disease activity
<p>Dr. Goilav is a pediatric nephrologist who is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrology. Her research interest is in lupus nephritis. She is currently doing translational research studying the role of very small interfering RNAs, called microRNAs, in the development and progression of lupus nephritis and their detection in human urine samples, as well as their role as biomarkers of disease activity.</p><p>Dr. Goilav graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Switzerland, and did her internship and residency in pediatrics at Jacobi Medical Center. She completed her fellowship in pediatric nephrology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Goilav speaks <span>German, </span><span>Italian, </span><span>Spanish, </span><span>French, </span>Hebrew, and Romanian. </p><p><br /></p>
Marco Gentilucci
Cardiology
Past research has focused on congestive heart failure.
Mario J. Garcia
<p>Dr. Mario J. Garcia is an eminent cardiologist and leader in the development and clinical implementation of the most advanced noninvasive cardiac diagnostic technology used around the world today. A physician, researcher and educator, he is known worldwide for his innovative use of noninvasive cardiac imaging in the clinic, such as coronary CT angiography (including some of the earliest studies testing radiation-reduction strategies), echocardiography, and MRI.</p>
<p>Dr. Garcia’s research focuses on why patients with diastolic heart failure have trouble doing physical exercise and the role of screening imaging tests for predicting cardiovascular events such as heart attacks. His cardiac imaging work has contributed significantly to the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease, diastolic heart failure, cardiomyopathies and valvular heart disease. The CT coronary angiography technique avoids the use of invasive arterial catheterization to image the coronary arteries, using instead a modified CT scanner to detect even the smallest atherosclerotic plaques that can cause narrowing of the coronary vessels and lead to deadly heart attacks. Dr. Garcia tested the technology in animal and controlled human studies, which led to increased accuracy and lowered the use of radiation, both of which improved clinical effectiveness. In addition, his research findings have helped to improve the safety of manned space flights and the quality of battlefield medicine.</p>
<p>Dr. Garcia joined Einstein/Montefiore as Chief of the Division of Cardiology in 2010. He holds the Pauline Levitt Endowed Chair in Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and is Professor of Radiology and Co-Director (with Dr. Robert Michler) of the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care. As co-director of the Center, Dr. Garcia has focused his attention on the cardiac health of lower income people living in urban areas such as the Bronx, where obesity, diabetes and other heart disease risk factors are common.</p>
<p>Dr. Garcia was born in Argentina and moved to the Dominican Republic when he was four years old. He attended Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena in Santo Domingo, where he earned both his bachelor’s degree in premedical sciences and his doctorate in medicine, completing his formal education in 1986, when he moved to the United States to train as an internal medicine resident and then a cardiology fellow at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He then pursued additional training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Cardiac Nuclear Imaging and at the Cleveland Clinic in Advanced Cardiac Imaging.</p>
<p>After two years as an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth, Dr. Garcia was recruited to the Cleveland Clinic by Dr. Eric Topol (Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA). He was initially a staff cardiologist, but became Director of Echocardiography in 2000, a position he held for the next five years. Under his tenure, the echocardiography program doubled in size to become the second largest program in the United States (behind the Mayo Clinic). Dr. Garcia was actively involved in recruiting new physicians to the program and managing the program’s budget. He also became involved in several entrepreneurial ventures, and brought CT angiography to the Cleveland Clinic. In 2005, he was named Director of Cardiovascular Imaging, leading the Cleveland Clinic to the top of cardiovascular imaging in the country at the time. In 2006, he was recruited to Mount Sinai as Professor of Medicine and Radiology and Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Center, where he worked with Dr. Valentin Fuster. There, he once again led a successful expansion, developing a strong collaborative relationship with the Department of Radiology, a critical factor in his success.</p>
<p>Academically, Dr. Garcia is an active member of the Boards of Directors of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and of the Intersocietal Accreditation Council, and he is a past member of the Board of the American Society of Echocardiography. He is a member of the American Heart Association, Circulation Council; a member of the Editorial Board, JACC-Imaging; the Associate Editor, American Heart Association on-line; the Editor of theheart.org Imaging section and the Editor in Chief of theheart.org (Spanish edition); a board member of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM); and serves on the American College of Cardiology's ACCF Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus Documents. He is the winner of the Feigenbaum Award of the American Society of Echocardiography (2004); the Inge Edler Award, Madrid, Spain (2001); the Teaching Attending of the year award, Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1998); the David H. Jacobs Research Award of the American Heart Association, Northeast Ohio Affiliate (1997); and the Facultad Universitaria Dominicana Year Award.<br />Dr. Garcia is the author or co-author of numerous books, including the very recent single-author definitive text, NonInvasive Cardiovascular Imaging: A Multimodality Approach (Garcia, MJ, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010). He has also written multiple book chapters and over 160 papers on many aspects of cardiac imaging.</p>
<p>Dr. Garcia's work has been supported by extramural funding from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Defense (DOD), the American Society of Echocardiography, the NIH, the American Heart Association, and SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dr. Garcia is a physician, researcher and educator known for his innovative use of noninvasive cardiac imaging in the clinic, including CT angiography, echocardiography and MRI. His research focuses on why patients with diastolic heart failure have trouble doing physical exercise and the role of screening imaging tests for predicting cardiovascular events such as heart attacks. <span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br /> <br /> <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dr. Garcia’s cardiac imaging work has contributed significantly to the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease, diastolic heart failure, cardiomyopathies and valvular heart disease. In addition, his research findings have helped to improve the safety of manned space flights and the quality of battlefield medicine. As co-director of the Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care, he has focused his attention on the cardiac health of lower income people living in urban areas such as the Bronx, where obesity, diabetes and other heart disease risk factors are common.</span></span></p>
Diagnosis and treatment of valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathies and pericardial disease.
Validation of non-invasive imaging for the study of cardiac structure and function.
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<li>Prasad A, Hastings JL, Shibata S, Popovic ZB, Arbab-Zadeh A, Bhella PS, Okazaki K, Fu Q, Berk M, Palmer D, Greenberg NL, Garcia MJ, Thomas JD, Levine BD. Characterization of static and dynamic left ventricular diastolic function in patients with heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction. Circulation. Heart failure. 2010;3:617-626</li>
<li>Fernandez-Friera L, Garcia-Alvarez A, Bagheriannejad-Esfahani F, Malick W, Mirelis JG, Sawit ST, Fuster V, Sanz J, Garcia MJ, Hermann LK. Diagnostic value of coronary artery calcium scoring in low-intermediate risk patients evaluated in the emergency department for acute coronary syndrome. The American journal of cardiology. 2011;107:17-23</li>
<li>Romero J, Xue X, Gonzalez W, Garcia MJ. CMR imaging assessing viability in patients with chronic ventricular dysfunction due to coronary artery disease: A meta-analysis of prospective trials. JACC. Cardiovascular imaging. 2012;5:494-508</li>
<li>Spevack DM, Karl J, Yedlapati N, Goldberg Y, Garcia MJ. Echocardiographic left ventricular end-diastolic pressure volume loop estimate predicts survival in congestive heart failure. Journal of cardiac failure. 2013;19:251-259.</li>
<li>Baber U, Mehran R, Sartori S, Schoos MM, Sillesen H, Muntendam P, Garcia MJ, Gregson J, Pocock S, Falk E and Fuster V. Prevalence, impact, and predictive value of detecting subclinical coronary and carotid atherosclerosis in asymptomatic adults: the BioImage study. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2015;65:1065-74.</li>
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<p>Mario Jorge Garcia, MD, is Chief, Cardiology, Co-Director, Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care and Professor, Medicine and Radiology at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Garcia’s clinical expertise includes the diagnosis and treatment of valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathies and pericardial disease.</p><p>After completing his Bachelor in Premedical Sciences at Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Dr. Garcia continued at the institution to earn his Doctorate in Medicine in 1986. He completed a year as a physician assistant with the AIDS national research program at Laboratorio Nacional Dr. Defilló, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic before coming to the United States for further training. At St. Vincent’s Medical Center, he completed his internal medicine residency in 1990 and his cardiology fellowship in 1992. In 1993, he completed his cardiac nuclear imaging fellowship at Massachusests General Hospital and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, followed in 1994 by his advanced cardiac imaging fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Foundation.</p><p>Dr. Garcia’s research has focused on the validation of non-invasive imaging for the study of cardiac structure and function. He was a pioneer in the adaptation of multi-detector CT technology for coronary imaging. His research has been supported by extramural funding from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Defense, the American Society of Echocardiography, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association. He is the author or co-author of several books, book chapters and over 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is also a reviewer for several national and international medical journals including <em>Journal of the American College of Cardiology, American Journal of Cardiology</em> and <em>Journal of the European Society of Cardiology.</em></p><p>Dr. Garcia is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians, and is a member of several other professional societies. He has received recognition nationally and internationally for his many accomplishments, including the Feigenbaum Award of the American Society of Echocardiography (2004), the Inge Edler Award, Madrid, Spain (2001), and the David H. Jacobs Research Award of the American Heart Association, Northeast Ohio Affiliate (1997).</p>