Cardiology
Important Change to Hospital Visitation Policy |
| Effective October 19, 2009, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital will no longer allow non-patient visitors or family members under the age of 16 years to visit in the hospital. This policy will be in effect during the height of the flu season, usually lasting until spring, and will be re-evaluated at that time. Learn more about the visitation policy change / Lea más acerca del cambio en las normas de visitas. |
| 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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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
- Daniel Bernstein, MD - Service Chief, Co-Director of Heart Center
- Clifford Chin, MD
- Michael J. Cisco, MD
- Kavin Desai, MD
- Anne Dubin, MD
- Jeffrey Feinstein, MD, MPH
- Zsofia Long, MD
- Heidi Magdo, MD
- Christina Miyake, MD
- Daniel Murphy, MD - Associate Chief for Clinical Affairs
- Lynn Peng, MD
- Stanton Perry, MD
- Rajesh Punn, MD
- Marlene Rabinovitch, MD
- Sushma Reddy, MD
- David Rosenthal, MD
- Stephen J. Roth, MD, MPH
- Arash Sabati, MD
- Andrew Shin, MD
- Norman Silverman, MD
- Theresa Tacy, MD
- Christopher Talluto, MD
- Wendy Whiteside, MD
- Gail E. Wright, MD
- Justin Yeh, MD
- Michelle Zebrack, MD
Nurse Practitioners
- Ellen Bair, MS, CPNP
- Jennifer Childrey, RN, MS, CPNP, CNS
- Deb Hanisch, RN, MSN, CPNP
- Rajashree Koppolu, RN, BSN, MS, CPNP
- Jana Norris, RN, PNP
- Michelle Ogawa, RN, PNP
- Summer Overman, RN, MSN, PNP-AC
- Rosalie Simon, RN, PNP
- Sandy Staveski, RN, MS, PNP, CNS, CCRN
- Kiersten Wells, RN, MSN, CPNP