Cardiology
| Location Heart Center 725 Welch Road, 1st floor Palo Alto, CA 94304 |
Phone: (650) 721-2121 Fax: (650) 497-8422 |
| Daily 8:00 am-5:00 pm; emergency evaluations and procedures 24 hours/day, 7 days/week |
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Learn more about our exciting hospital expansion by visiting growing.lpch.org Note that during this expansion, routes to 725 Welch have changed. |
Services Overview
The Cardiology Clinic at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital provides diagnosis and management of congenital and acquired heart disease in infants, children, and adolescents.Available services include:
- Arrhythmia: diagnosis and management, ECG services, Holter and Event recording, pacemaker management, electrophysiologic study, and trans-catheter ablation of arrhythmia pathways.
- Echocardiography and noninvasive imaging Center: pediatric echocardiography, fetal echocardiography, transesophageal and intraoperative echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and angiography (MRA), and computed tomography (CT).
- Catheterization and interventional cardiology service: cardiac catheterization and angiography, interventional procedures (balloon angioplasty, balloon valvuloplasty, coil embolization, trans-catheter stenting, and catheter closure of congential heart defects) and endomyocardial biopsy.
- Exercise and preventive cardiology center: cardiopulmonary exercise stress testing, evaluation for athletic partipation, hypertension evaluation, and hypercholesterolemia evaluation and management.
- Pediatric advanced cardiac therapies: heart failure management, heart transplantation and heart-lung and lung transplantation.
- Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease: evaluation and management of pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary vascular disease.
- Marfan syndrome and related connective tissue disorders: diagnostic evaluation and specific therapy for Marfan syndrome and other related heritable disorders of connective tissue.
- Congential heart disease clinic specializes in patients born with defects who grow to be adults facing a range of challenges.
- Comprehensive multidisciplinary care offered by cardiologists, cardiology clinical nurse specialists, social workers, physical and occupational therapists and dietitians.
- Designated CCS center
Comprehensive multidisciplinary care is offered by our cardiologists, cardiology clinical nurse specialist, social worker and dietician. Visit our Children's Heart Center section to learn more.
Additional Special Services
- Outreach clinics provided in Fremont, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo and Stockton.
Faculty
- Ritu Asija, MD
- David Axelrod, MD
- Sowmya Balasubramanian, MD
- Daniel Bernstein, MD - Service Chief, Co-Director of Heart Center
- Michael J. Cisco, MD
- Kavin Desai, MD
- Anne Dubin, MD
- Jeffrey Feinstein, MD, MPH
- Stafford Grady, MD
- Seth Hollander, MD
- Beth Kaufman, MD
- Alaina Kipps, MD
- Christina Miyake, MD
- Kara Montonga, MD
- Daniel Murphy, MD - Associate Chief for Clinical Affairs
- Inger Olson, MD
- Lynn Peng, MD
- Stanton Perry, MD
- Rajesh Punn, MD
- Marlene Rabinovitch, MD
- Sushma Reddy, MD
- David Rosenthal, MD
- Stephen J. Roth, MD, MPH
- Pilar Ruiz-Lozano, Ph.D
- Andrew Shin, MD
- Theresa Tacy, MD
- Gail E. Wright, MD
- Justin Yeh, MD
- Michelle Zebrack, MD
Nurse Practitioners
- Ellen Bair, MS, CPNP
- Julie Bushnell
- Jennifer Childrey, RN, MS, CPNP, CNS
- Deb Hanisch, RN, MSN, CPNP
- Jana Norris, RN, PNP
- Michelle Ogawa, RN, PNP
- Laura Presnell
- Rosalie Simon, RN, PNP
- Sandy Staveski, RN, MS, PNP, CNS, CCRN
- Megan Tracey, RN,MS,PNP-BC,CNS