Dr. Geva is Chairman of the Department of Cardiology at Boston Children's Hospital and the Alexander S. Nadas Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. His major clinical and research interests are multimodality imaging of congenital heart disease. He established and developed the cardiac MRI program at Boston Children's Hospital and subsequently led the Cardiac Imaging Division before assuming his current role. His research has focused on the use of multimodality imaging to define quantitative functional and morphometric predictors of course and outcome in either native or postoperative congenital cardiac lesions. He has published extensively on these topics and is the co-editor of a textbook on echocardiography in congenital heart disease, now in its 3rd edition.

Mary T. Donofrio, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine and is a Pediatric and Fetal Cardiologist at Children's National Hospital in Washington DC. She is the VanMetre Companies Endowed Chair of Fetal Cardiology and is Medical Director of Prenatal Cardiology, Director of the Critical Care Delivery Program and Advanced Cardiac Imaging Fellowship, and Co-director of the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Program. She is the Founding President of the Fetal Heart Society, a non-profit international organization created to advance the field of fetal cardiovascular care and science through collaborative research, education and mentorship. Dr. Donofrio is an international expert in fetal cardiology and is known for her work in establishing multidisciplinary protocols for specialized delivery room management of babies diagnosed in utero with complex congenital heart disease. She has collaborated with scientists in the field to study how alterations in the fetal circulation affect in utero brain development as well as to investigate potential treatment strategies to improve neurodevelopmental outcome in babies with congenital heart disease. She has published over 150 papers, including the American Heart Association Scientific Statement on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Fetal Cardiac Disease, the American Society of Echocardiography Guidelines and Recommendations for Performance of the Fetal Echocardiogram, and the Call to Action Report on Prioritizing Delivery Room Care for Neonates with Critical Congenital Heart Disease.

Dr. Anita Moon-Grady, director of the Fetal Cardiovascular Program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, uses her training in pediatric cardiology and neonatal/perinatal medicine to raise awareness and increase detection of fetal heart problems. Working in concert with the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center she coordinates care for pregnancies affected by fetal heart disease or dysfunction, whether intervention is necessary before, during or immediately after birth. Her research focuses on non-invasive imaging modalities for investigation of normal and abnormal cardiac function in patients with congenital heart disease and fetuses with congenital heart disease and cardiac compromise, as well as fetuses with cardiac dysfunction due to non-cardiac causes.

Dr. Moon-Grady earned a medical degree from Stanford University, where she also earned a Dean’s Award for research in human genetics. At the UC Davis she completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in neonatal/perinatal medicine. Her fellowship in pediatric cardiology was completed at UCSF. She is a member of the American Society of Echocardiography and the American Medical Association. She has been elected fellow of the American College of Cardiology, fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography and served on the Board for the Pediatric Council of the American Society of Echocardiography. She is also a founding member of the steering committee for the International Fetal Cardiac Intervention Registry and the UCSF steering committee representative to the North American Fetal Therapy Network (NAFTNet).She is the Vice-President and a Board member of the non-profit Fetal Heart Society and Chair of the Ultrasound Practice Accreditation Committee for the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.

Education:
Stanford University School of Medicine – 1993

Residencies:
University of California Davis Medical Center, Pediatrics – 1996

Fellowships:
University of California Davis Medical Center, Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine – 1999
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Cardiology – 2002

Board Certification:
American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatrics – 1996
American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology – 2002, ongoing

Curriculum Vitae available upon request.

Dr. Maully Shah is the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) , director of the electrophysiology fellowship program, Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She is the director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion of the Cardiac Center at CHOP. She completed her medical school training from the University of Gujarat in India and her pediatric residency at the University of Connecticut Combined residency Program in Farmington , CT. She completed her Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship as well as her Pediatric Electrophysiology Fellowship at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is past President of the Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society (PACES) from 2019-2020 and served on its executive committee from 2016-2021. She also served as PACES vice president of Research from 2016-2017. She is the chair of the 2021 PACES Expert Consensus Statement Consensus Statement on the Indications and Management of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices in Pediatric Patients . She is associate editor for Journal of American College of Cardiology and. JACC Electrophysiology journals. She also serves as committee member section in the American College of Cardiology’s IMPACT research and publications committee and the Heart Rhythm Society’s Scientific Clinical Documents and Guidelines committee. She has is the senior editor for the text book entitled “Pacing and Defibrillation in Pediatrics and Congenital Heart Disease” (Wiley publishers, UK) and co-editor of the recent Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics Review entitled “Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices in Congenital Heart Disease (Elsevier, USA). She has co-authored over 100 peer reviewed publications, over 100 abstracts presented at international and national scientific meetings. She has been invited as faculty to speak and chair sessions at numerous scientific conferences. Dr. Shah’s clinical interests include diagnosis and management of patients with arrhythmias, sports cardiology, prevention of sudden cardiac death and interventional electrophysiology procedures. Her research interests are complex catheter ablations, electroanatomic mapping and imaging of congenital heart disease for electrophysiology procedures, and novel cardiac implantable electronic device implantation.

Dr. Kourtidou is a US board certified pediatric cardiologist, who specializes in non-invasive cardiac imaging in children and in young adults. Following her graduation from Athens Medical School, Greece, she pursued a Master of Science degree in Preventive Cardiology at Imperial College in London UK. She then completed her pediatric residency at St.Barnabas Hospital of the Albert Einstein University in New York and her pediatric cardiology training at Seattle Children's Hospital, WA. While in Seattle, she developed a special interest in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement initiatives and obtained the respective degree from the University of Washington. She completed her fellowship in Advanced Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging, including fetal cardiology and cardiac MR at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. 
Dr. Kourtidou has served as an Assistant Professor in Clinical Pediatrics and pediatric CMR Director at Weill Cornell Hospital in New York City, NY, USA before moving back to her homeland in Greece. She is currently the lead in the Fetal Cardiology and Pediatric CMR in the Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease at Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center.

Juan Pablo Kaski is Professor of Paediatric Inherited Cardiovascular Medicine at the UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, where he leads the UCL Centre for Paediatric Inherited and Rare Cardiovascular Diseases, and Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), London, UK. He is the Director of the GOSH Centre for Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases. His clinical and research interests are focused on the clinical and genetic characterisation of inherited cardiovascular disease and sudden cardiac death in childhood. He is immediate past-Chair of the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology (AEPC) Working Group on Genetics, Basic Science and Myocardial Disease and sits on the Executive Board of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis Registry Programme and the ESC Council on Cardiovascular Genomics. He leads an international paediatric HCM consortium of over 45 centres, which was responsible for the development of the first sudden death risk prediction model for childhood HCM. He is Chair of the Task Force for the 2023 European Society of Cardiology Cardiomyopathy Guidelines.

Dr. I.Iliopoulos MD, FRCPCH, FRCPC, FAAP is the Medical Director of Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care at INOVA Children’s Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia, USA. He is a graduate of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Medical School, and he underwent postgraduate training in pediatrics, neonatology, pediatric critical and cardiac critical care in the United Kindgom. Dr. Iliopoulos pursued advanced training in pediatric cardiac critical care at the Brompton Hospital, London, UK and Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, USA and served as an Attending Cardiac Intensivist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for over a decade before joining INOVA Children’s. His research is focused on hemodynamic monitoring and inotropic management in critically ill pediatric cardiac patients, including non-invasive ways to assess cardiac output and end organ perfusion such as near infrared spectroscopy and the effect of traditionally used vasoactive therapies such as vasopressin and epinephrine in oxygen consumption and cardiac output after congenital heart surgery. He also participates in a multicenter research consortium that involves more than 20 US cardiac centers (Collaborative Research of Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society- CoRe PCICS) that aims to provide granular reviews of surgical practice, postoperative management, and outcomes in rare congenital cardiac lesions.

Dr. Sanders attended Georgetown University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree. He received his MD degree from the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center. He completed Pediatric residency at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center and Pediatric Cardiology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. He was Director of the Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory at Boston Children’s Hospital from 1983 until 1994, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Duke University for seven years and Chair of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery at Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome, Italy for 5 years. In 2010 he became director of the Cardiac Registry at Boston Children’s Hospital, a collection of 4000 catalogued heart specimens. His primary interests include the embryology and morphology of congenital heart defects and anatomy-imaging correlation. He has extensive experience with the pathology of childhood heart disease, analysis of materials used in cardiac surgery, and creation of 3D models from CT and MRI images of heart specimens.

Dr. Tsirka is a native of Greece. After graduating from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, she pursued pediatric residency, at SUNY Stony Brook, followed by subspecialty training in Neonatology at the University of Pittsburgh and Pediatric Cardiology at Washington Universtiy Hospital in St Louis. She then pursued a Master’s in Clinical Research at the University of Minnesota, and a certificate in Artificial Intelligence in Health Care from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She is currently the Director of Pediatric Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Services at St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, where she practices Pediatric and Fetal Cardiology.  She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Drexel University Medical School and the Katz Lewis School of Medicine at Temple University.
She is the director of Education in Pediatric Cardiology for Drexel and Temple University.  
In her spare time, she loves spending time with her family (husband and two sons),  traveling, as well as vacationing in Greece and watching the gorgeous sunsets…

Dr Anitha Parthiban is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas and Medical Director of Echocardiography at Texas Children's Hospital. Her clinical and research focus is in pediatric cardiac imaging, specifically transthoracic and trans-esophageal echocardiography and fetal cardiology. She has expertise in and is passionate about 3D echocardiography In addition, she has received training in Quality Improvement and LEAN methodology and published work in this area as well.

Dr. Ralphe has been Division Chief of Pediatric Cardiology, and co-director of the Congenital Heart Program at the University of Wisconsin since 2011. Together with Dr. Petros Anagnostopoulos, Dr. Ralphe has overseen the development and growth of comprehensive congenital cardiac services in Madison. He has demonstrated skills in strategic planning, clinical operations, and supporting high-functioning multi-disciplinary teams. The program provides the highest levels of non-invasive and invasive diagnostic and treatment services from fetal cardiology thru adult congenital care with consistent growth and outstanding clinical outcomes. Additionally Dr. Ralphe directs a cardiovascular physiology research program employing a human cell-based engineered cardiac tissue platform to study hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with support from industry partners and the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Andrew Powell is a Senior Associate in Cardiology at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from Harvard Medical School followed by a residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric cardiology, both at Boston Children’s Hospital. Afterward, he joined the staff there in the Department of Cardiology, where he is currently the Chief of the Cardiac Imaging Division. In 2019 he served as the President of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR). Dr. Powell specializes in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and echocardiography. His research has focused on the development of quantitative MRI methods to guide therapy and predict outcomes of congenital and pediatric heart disease.

4/12/2023

Sheetal R Patel MD MSCI

CONTACT INFORMATION
Business Address:            Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Box 21, 225 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611-2991
Office (312) 227-4411 Fax (312) 227-9640
Email:                                    spatel@luriechildrens.org           

EDUCATION

07/1995 – 01/2001           Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)
Sardar Patel University; Pramukh Swami Medical College, Anand, Gujarat, India

08/2001 – 05/2003           Master of Science Cell & Molecular Biology (degree candidate)
Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL

08/2014 – 06/2017           Master of Science in Clinical Investigations (MSCI)
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

01/2000 – 01/2001           General Medicine Internship
Shree Krishna Hospital; Sardar Patel University, Gujarat, India

07/2004 – 06/2007           Pediatric Residency
State University of New York (SUNY-Downstate) Brooklyn, NY

07/2007 – 06/2010           Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship
Wayne State University; Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

03/2019 – 08/2020 / Pediatric Leadership Certificate Program
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

08/2019 – 10/2022 / Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators (FAME) Certificate Program
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

CERTIFICATIONS

2003 - Current / Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (0-641-722-403)
2008 - Current / Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics (ABPID # 671301)
2010 - Current / Diplomate of the Sub-Board of Pediatric Cardiology (#2357)
2007 – Current / Pediatric Advanced Life Support Certification
2007 – Current / Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES
2010-2014 / Medical License, State of Wisconsin (54516-20)
2010-Present / Medical License, State of Illinois (036126120)

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

8/2001 - 5/2003 / Laboratory instructor – Biology 101
School of Arts & Science, Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL

7/2010-12/2013 / Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

1/2014 – 08/2024 / Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago IL

9/2024 – curren / Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago IL

HOSPITAL / CLINIC APPOINTMENTS

7/2010–12/2013 / Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology
Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

1/2014 – 08/2024 / Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology
Department of Pediatrics, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1/2018-12/2018 / Co-director, Fetal Cardiac Program
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Il

01/2019 – Current / Co-Director, Turner Syndrome Multidisciplinary Program
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1/2019-10/2022 / Interim-director, Fetal Cardiac Program
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL

11/2022 – Current / Director, Fetal Cardiac Program
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL

11/2022 – Current / Co-Director, The Chicago Institute for Fetal Health
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL

9/2024 – Current / Associate Professor, Division of Cardiology
Department of Pediatrics, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL

HONORS AND AWARDS

• National Awards:
  1995 / National Merit Scholarship Award, Govt of Gujarat, Gujarat State Educational Board, India
  2005 / "Humanism and Excellence in Teaching," Aarnold P Gold foundation
  2020 / "Top 5 Quality Improvement Projects" among the graduating class of "Pediatric Leadership Program." Invited to present the individual quality improvement project "Code Rainbow" – Improving the transfer process for newborns with critical congenital heart diseases during the PLP workshop, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

• University Awards:
  SUNY Downstate Medical Center:
  2006 / "Dr. Madu Rao Annual Award in Pulmonary Medicine." Ann & Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago:
  2020 / "Operational Excellence Award” for National Healthcare Quality Week awarded for the QI project - Code Rainbow: Improving Transfer Process for Newborns with Critical Congenital Heart Disease
  2019 / Mission-based award for excellence in scholarship, mentoring/teaching, and leadership
  2020 / Mission-based award for excellence in scholarship, mentoring/teaching, and leadership  
  2021 / Mission-based award for excellence in scholarship, mentoring/teaching, and leadership
  2022 / Mission-based award for excellence in scholarship, mentoring/teaching, and leadership
  2024 / Physician Excellence Award for Clinical Care, Department of Pediatrics

INTERNAL INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE

• University:
  2022 – Current / Member, Office of Continued Medical Education (CME) review committee, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

• School:
  2019 – Current / Faculty instructor, Cardiac ultrasound sessions, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  2022 / Faculty Instructor, Program Based Learning (PBL), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

• Department:
  2017 - Current / Clinical Coach, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship – Clinical coaching program
  2019 / Course Director, Fetal Cardiology Workshop 2019. CME Workshop accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and attended by national and international attendees.
  2019 – Current / Course Co-Director, Fetology – Practice and Discovery. Annual national / International conference accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
  2021 / Course Director, Fetal Cardiology Workshop 2021. CME Workshop accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and attended by national and international attendees.
  2022 – 2023 / Course Director, Fetal Cardiology Roundtable Virtual Series. Quarterly webinar series accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) attended by national attendees.
  2018 – Current / Member, Heart Center Wellness Committee
  2021 – Current / Member, Cardiology Research Review Committee (CRRC)
  2023 – Current / Heart Center Quality Improvement Committee (Lead, Fetal Cardiac Program QI sub-committee)

• Hospital:
  2018 / Developer and Lead - Guideline for Level of Care assignment for congenital heart lesions
  2018 – Current / Founder and Lead - Biweekly multidisciplinary CHD delivery planning collaborative meeting
  2018 / Co-developer, Lurie/Prentice Fetal Arrhythmia management protocol
  2020 / Developer, COVID-19 protocol for fetal cardiology services
  2020 / Developer, COVID-19 triage guideline for fetal cardiology services
  2020 - Current / Committee member, Awards and visibility committee, Dept of Pediatrics
  2022 / Member & Fetal Cardiology Lead, Trisomy 13 & 18 inter-disciplinary working group
  2020 – Current / Developer and Co-Lead, CHD Risk-Stratification based Guidelines for determining an appropriate delivery location for Lurie and partner hospitals (Specifically utilized for partner hospitals at the Central DuPage Hospital, RUSH University Health System, Silver-Cross Hospital, Centegra Health System)  

COMMUNITY SERVICE
2019 / Student mentor, Northwestern Center for Talent Development Highschool Program

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP 
2005–2014 / American Heart Association (AHA)
2007-Present / Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP)
2007–2017 / American College of Cardiology (ACC)
2012- Present / Member, American Society for Echocardiography (ASE)
2018- Present / Member, Fetal Heart Society (FHS)
2020-Present / Member, Society of Pediatric Echocardiography (SOPE)

ELECTED PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP
2005- Present / Awarded membership based on excellence in teaching and humanism, The Gold Humanism Honor Society
2018-Present / Selected member, Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators (FAME)
2020-Present / Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE)

EXTERNAL PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE
2018 – Current / Selected Chairperson, Council on Cardiology, Turner Syndrome Foundation
2022 – Current / Selected Chair, Program Leader’s Committee, Fetal Heart Society - An international collaboration of physicians and sonographers practicing fetal cardiology
2023 / Invited Cardiology Expert, International Turner Syndrome Consortium to update current management guidelines, Aarhus, Denmark

SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARDS:
2018 – Current / Selected Chairperson, Turner Syndrome Council on Cardiology, Turner Syndrome Foundation.
2023 / Invited cardiovascular expert, International Turner Syndrome Guideline Consortium, Denmark
                               
EDITORSHIPS / EDITORIAL BOARD SERVICE  
2010 – Current / Pediatric Cardiology – Member of the editorial board

MANUSCRIPT REVIEW RESPONSIBILITIES
2015 – Current / Echocardiography, ad hoc reviewer
2016 – Current / Cardiology in Young, ad hoc reviewer
2016 – Current / Progress in Pediatric Cardiology, ad hoc reviewer
2017 – Current / CASE Cardiovascular Imaging Case Reports, ad hoc reviewer
2017 – Current / Congenital Heart Disease, ad hoc reviewer
2017 – Current / Frontiers in Pediatrics, ad hoc reviewer

GRANTS AND SPONSORED AWARDS
Agency: Mend-A-Heart Foundation
Title: Fetal Heart Society: Transposition of the Great Arteries
Principal Investigator: Lisa Hornberger, Shaine Morris, Mary Donofrio
Role on project: Site investigator for Aim 1
Percent effort: 3%
Total costs for project period: 60,000$
Project period: 2019-Present

RESEARCH PROJECTS                                                                                                                                                 
Ongoing research projects:

• Sheetal Patel MD, Meghan Coghlan MD, George Verghese MD "Code Rainbow to improve the transfer process for newborn with critical CHD – a quality improvement initiative" Data collection is ongoing.
• Multicenter Collaborative Study through Fetal Heart Society: Contemporary perinatal outcomes in prenatally diagnosed truncus arteriosus. Principle Investigators: Kelly Cox MD, Nazia Husain MD, Sheetal Patel MD. Anticipated manuscript by fall 2024
• Funded multicenter multi-arm, prospective collaborative study through Fetal Heart Society: "Fetal Anatomy and Physiology and Associations with Fetal and Perinatal Outcomes in D-Transposition of the Great Arteries with Intact Ventricular Septum." Principle Investigators: Joyce Johnson MD, Angira Patel MD, Sheetal Patel MD. 25 centers participating. Data entry is completed. Anticipated manuscript by December 2024
• Multicenter Collaborative Study through Fetal Heart Society: Fetal Hemodynamics in Coarctation of the Aorta by Fetal Echocardiography and Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation. Data entry is initiated. Sheetal Patel: Site investigator
• Multicenter Collaborative Study through Fetal Heart Society: "Outcomes Following Prenatal Diagnosis of Fetal Rhabdomyomas: A Fetal Heart Society Collaborative Study." Manuscript in process. Sheetal Patel: Site investigator. Principle investigator: Simone Jhaveri,         
• Correlation of IVC diameter with catheter-based central venous pressure in Fontan – data collection is completed. Sheetal Patel – Senior author

INVITED TALKS

• International/National:

1. Panel leader, "Breast Feeding & Congenital Heart Disease," Conquering CHD live webinar, 08/2020 https://www.conqueringchd.org/breastfeeding/ 

• Pediatric Cardiology Expert Panelist, Boston International Turner Syndrome Summit for Turner Syndrome, Boston, MA, 07/2021
• Fetal Cardiology Expert Panelist, “Noninvasive Pregnancy Testing: Screening ≠ Diagnostic," Fetal Heart Society monthly webinar 02/2022
• Moderator and Panelist, “Interesting fetal cardiology case presentation," NeoHeart – Cardiovascular Management of the Neonate, Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, 08/2022
• Guest speaker, "How best to detect prenatally and manage when there is the transposition of the great arteries with suspicion of restrictive or intact atrial septum" Cardiology 2022 - 25th annual update on pediatric and congenital cardiac disease Huntington Beach, CA, 08/2022
• Grand Rounds Speaker, "Delivery room management of a fetus with d-Transposition of the great arteries," Perinatal Medicine grand rounds, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia, 03/2023
• Guest speaker, "Fetal Echocardiographic Evaluation of Fetal Hydrops." Fetal Education Series Webinar, Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, MO. 03/2023
• Speaker and Moderator, “Getting Better Together: Practical Approaches to Quality Improvement in Fetal Cardiology” Fetal Heart Society monthly webinar, 04/2023
• Faculty, "AAP – Read the Report." American Academy of Pediatrics Session at the World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Conference, Washington, DC, 08/2023
• Guest speaker, "Fetal Echocardiographic Evaluation of Fetal Hydrops." Perinatal Medicine Grand Rounds, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia, 09/2023
• Speaker and Moderator, “Currents Trends in Fetal Cardiology: Results from FHS Benchmarking Survey” Fetal Heart Society monthly webinar, 10/2023
• Expert Panelist, “Early Gestational Fetal Echocardiography: Benefits, Challenges & Case Based Examples” Fetal Heart Society Monthly Webinar, 02/2024
• Guest Speaker “What Can We Do at the Start to Make Sure We Reach Our Destination? Perspectives on Optimizing the Life Trajectory in Transposition of the Great Arteries During Fetal / Neonatal Period “. Cardiology 2024 – 27th Annual Update on Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease” 02/2024, Scottsdale, AZ
• Moderator “Its debatable: Controversies in fetal and perinatal management of pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum” American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Sessions, Atlanta, GA 04/2024
• Guest Speaker “Turner Syndrome: Updates on the International Consensus Guidelines Revision - The heart of the matter in Turner Syndrome: cardiovascular issues, lipids and hypertension” Pediatric Endocrine Society Annual Meeting Chicago IL 05/2024

Regional:

• Guest speaker, "Fetal Echocardiography: Impact of prenatal diagnosis and management of congenital heart defects and arrhythmias." Best Practices in Pediatrics – Regional Conference Wisconsin Dells, WI 03/2011
• Guest speaker, "Evaluation of Syncope and Pre-syncope in Children and Adolescents," Annual Cardiovascular Symposium – Centegra Health System, Crystal Lake, IL 7/2012
• Grand rounds Speaker, "Diagnosis and Management of Fetus with Complete Congenital Heart Block." North Shore University Health System – Evanston Hospital, Evanston, IL 4/2013
• Grand rounds speaker, "Sudden Cardiac Death in Young Athletes: Screening Strategies and Guidelines." Lake Forest Hospital, Northwestern University, Lake Forest, IL  6/2014
• Grand rounds speaker, "Fetal Echocardiography: Transposition of the Great Arteries." Dept of Perinatal Medicine, North Shore University Health System – Evanston, IL 10/2014
• Grand rounds speaker, "Prenatal diagnosis and management of complex congenital heart defects." Dept of Perinatal Medicine, North Shore University Health System – Evanston, IL 07/2015
• Grand rounds speaker, "Fetal Hydrops and Utility of Cardiovascular Profile Score in Fetal Cardiology." Dept of Perinatal Medicine, North Shore University Health System – Evanston, IL 03/2018
• Guest Speaker, "Delivery action plans for high-risk congenital heart disease: Prediction and planning to improve the outcomes." Fetology: Practice and Discovery, Chicago Institute for Fetal Health, National/International conference, 09/2019
• Guest Speaker, "Fetal echocardiography: Normal four-chamber view." Fetal Cardiology Workshop 2019, Chicago IL, National/International conference. 09/2019

Local:

• Grand rounds speaker, "How to read and interpret pediatric electrocardiogram." Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 8/2008
• Guest speaker, "Embryologic review of the aortic arches and arch anomalies." Chicago Sonographer Updates, Ann & Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL 04/2015
• Guest speaker, "Fetal Echocardiography in Double Outlet Right Ventricle." Chicago Sonographer updates, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago 04/2016
• Guest speaker, "Echocardiographic Assessment of Restrictive Cardiomyopathy." Chicago Sonographer updates, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago 04/2017    
• Guest speaker, "Tetralogy of Fallot: Fetal and Transthoracic Echocardiography." Chicago Sonographer updates, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago 04/2018      
• Grand Rounds speaker, "Role of fetal echocardiography in perinatal management of congenital heart disease." Chicago Mercy Hospital, Chicago, IL  10/2019
• Guest speaker – “The Lessons & Experiences of Running CME activities” Today’s Innovation in Medical Education (TIME), TIME-ly projects from the Medical Education Certificate Program. Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators (FAME). Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago IL 07/2022
• Grand Rounds Speaker, "Role of fetal echocardiography in perinatal management of congenital heart disease." Rush Medical Center and Cook County Hospital combined Pediatric Grand Rounds, Chicago, IL 08/2022
• Grand Rounds Speaker, "Fetal echocardiographic evaluation in hydrops fetalis." Rush Medical Center and Cook County Hospital combined Pediatric Grand Rounds, Chicago, IL 03/2023
• Grand Rounds Speaker – “Fetal Cardiology: Past, Present & Future” Ann & Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, February 2023

PUBLICATIONS AND SCHOLARLY WORKS

• Journal Articles

Peer-reviewed Original Investigations [first author (4), senior author (3), middle author (3)]:

1. Patel S, Shah D, Chintala K, Karpawich P "Atrial baffle problems following the mustard operation in children and young adults with dextro-transposition of the great arteries: the need for improved clinical detection in the current era." Congenital heart disease 2011 Sep 6: 466–74 [PMID 21696550]

2. Kobayashi D, Patel S, Matoo T, Valentini R, Aggraval S. “The Impact of Change in Volume and Left-Ventricular Hypertrophy on Left-Ventricular Mechanical Dyssynchrony in Children with End-Stage Renal Disease” Pediatric Cardiology October 2012, Volume 33, Issue 7, pp 1124-1130. [PMID: 22441563]

• Patel S, Anne P, Somerfield-Ronek J, Du W, Zilberman MV. Inferior Vena Cava Diameter Predicts Nephropathy in Patients Late After Fontan Palliation. Pediatric Cardiology 2020 Apr; 41:789–794. [PMID: 32016581]
• Patel SR, Kwiatkowski DM, Andrei A-C, Devareddy A, Shi H, Krawczeski CD, Ebert N, Deal BJ, Langman CB, Marino BS. Prevalence and Risk Factors Associated with Renal Dysfunction in Patients with Single Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease after Fontan Palliation. CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE 2020 Jan; 15:181–195. DOI:10.32604/CHD.2020.012097
• Patel SR, Costello JM, Andrei A-C, Backer CL, Krawczeski CD, Deal BJ, Langman CB, Marino BS. Incidence, Predictors, and Impact of Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury Following Fontan Conversion Surgery in Young Adult Fontan Survivors. Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2022 May; 34:631–639. [PMID: 33691191]
• Huang J, Basith SS, Patel S, Goetsch Weisman A, Brickman W, Mets MB, Mets-Halgrimson R. Ocular findings in pediatric Turner syndrome. Ophthalmic Genetics 2022 Aug; 43:450–453. [PMID: 35382690]
• Cox K, Husain N, Jhaveri S, Geiger M, Berhane H, Patel S. Fetal Echocardiographic Variables Associated with Pre-Surgical Mortality in Truncus Arteriosus: A Pilot Study. Pediatric Cardiology 2023 Feb; [PMID: 36854855]
• Lockhart EN, Carr M, Allen K, Samis J, Torchen L, Laternser C, Bian Y, Patel S. Prevalence of Abnormal Hemoglobin A1c Values in Single Ventricle Patients Following Fontan Palliation. Pediatric Cardiology 2023 Mar; [PMID: 36961539]
• Birjiniuk A, Weisman AG, Laternser C, Camarda J, Brickman WJ, Habiby R, Patel SR. “Cardiovascular Manifestations of Turner Syndrome: Phenotypic Differences Between Karyotype Subtypes”. Pediatric Cardiol. 2023 May 5. doi: 10.1007/s00246-023-03159-0. [PMID: 37147524]
• Cohen J, Arya B, Caplan R, Donofrio MT, Ferdman D, Harrington JK, Ho DY, Hogan W, Hornberger LK, Jhaveri S, Killen SAS, Lindblade CL, Michelfelder E, Moon-Grady AJ, Patel S, Quezada E, Ronai C, Sanchez Mejia AA, Schidlow DN, Stiver C, Thakur V, Srivastava S. “Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries: Fetal Diagnosis, Associations, and Postnatal Outcome: A Fetal Heart Society Research Collaborative Study”. J Am Heart Assoc. 2023 Jun 6;12(11):e029706. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.122.029706. Epub 2023 Jun 1. [PMID: 37259984]
• Woo JL, Burton S, Iyengar T, Sivakumar A, Spiewak S, Wakulski R, Grobman WA, Davis MM, Yee LM, Patel A, Johnson JT, Patel S, Gandhi R. Patient-reported barriers to prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defects: A mixed-methods study. Prenat Diagn. 2023 Dec 18. doi: 10.1002/pd.6481. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38108462.
• Samples S, Patel S, Lee S, Gotteiner N, Patel A. Incidence of Fetal Arrhythmia Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Single-Center Experience. Pediatr Cardiol. 2024 Feb 27. doi: 10.1007/s00246-024-03439-3. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38413418.

Peer-reviewed Simulation Published in Medical Education:  

• Attridge MM, Hopkins KA, Mangold K, Brickman WJ, Patel SR. Diagnosis and Management of Aortic Dissection in a Pediatric Patient With Turner Syndrome: A Simulation. Cureus. 2023 Jul 11;15(7):e41725. doi: 10.7759/cureus.41725. PMID: 37575692; [PMID: 10414799]

Peer-reviewed Invited Reviews and commentaries [first author (3), senior author (1), middle author (1)]:

• Patel S, Sedaghat-Yazdi F, MD, Perez M "Management of Pediatric Chest Pain, Palpitations, Syncope and Murmur Presenting to the Emergency Department" Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Vol. 19, Issue 4, December 2018, pp 328–339. ISSN 1522-8401, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpem.2018.12.005

• Patel S, Anne P, Langman CB, Zilberman MV "Author Response to "Letter to Editor" Inferior Vena Cava Diameter and Fontan Related Nephropathy: Considerations About Clinical Usefulness and Physiology. Pediatric Cardiology 2021 Jan;42(1):219–220. DOI: 10.1007/s00246-020-02517-6. [PMID: 33464373]

3. Dowlut-McElroy T, Davis S, Howell S, Gutmark-Little I, Bamba V, Prakash S, Patel S, Fadoju D, Vijayakanthi N, Haag M, Hennerich D,  Dugoff L, Kanakatti Shankar R "Cell-Free DNA Screening Positive for Monosomy X: Clinical Evaluation and Management of Suspected Maternal or Fetal Turner Syndrome." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2022 December, Vol 227, Issue 6, 862-870 doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2022.07.004. [PMID: 35841934]

4. Patel S, Madan N, Jone P, Donofrio M “Utility of Fetal Echocardiography with Acute Maternal Hyperoxygenation Testing in Assessment of Complex Congenital Heart Defects." Children (Basel). 2023 Jan 31;10(2):281. Doi: 10.3390/children10020281. [PMID: 36832410] PMCID: PMC9955335.

5. Samples S, Fitt C, Satzer M, Wakai R, Strasburger J, Patel S. Fetal Congenital Complete Heart Block: A Rare Case with an Extremely Low Ventricular Rate and Review of Current Management Strategies. Children (Basel). 2023 Jun 29;10(7):1132. doi: 10.3390/children10071132. PMID: 37508630; PMCID: PMC10378391.

6. Patel, S.R.; Michelfelder, E. Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease: The Crucial Role of Perinatal and Delivery Planning. J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2024, 11, 108. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd11040108

7. Gravholt CH, Andersen NH, Christin-Maitre S, Davis SM, Duijnhouwer A, Gawlik A, Maciel-Guerra AT, Gutmark-Little I, Fleischer K, Hong D, Klein KO, Prakash SK, Shankar RK, Sandberg DE, Sas TCJ, Skakkebæk A, Stochholm K, van der Velden JA; International Turner Syndrome Consensus Group; Backeljauw PF. Collaborators: Francisco Alvarez-Nava, Hanna Bjorlin Avdic, Camilla M Balle, Vaneeta Bamba, Ivonne Bedei, Åsa Bonnard, Wendy J Brickman, Nicole M Brown, Steven Chernausek, Jeremy Cobbold, Sarah D Corathers, Christophe Corpechot, Melissa L Crenshaw, Melanie Davies, Asma Deeb, Arianne Dessens, Tazim Dowlut-McElroy, Victoria Elliott, Doris Fadoju, Patricia Y Fechner, Mitchell Geffner, Sarah Gitomer, Katya de Groote, Jacky Hewitt, Cindy Ho, Christa Hutaff-Lee, Tsuyoshi Isojima, Emma B Johannsen, Masanobu Kawai, Ana Keselman, Rebecca Christine Knickmeyer, Jessica Kremen, Berit Kristrøm, Paul Kruszka, Jennifer Law, Angela E Lin, Karen Loechner, Nelly Mauras, Deborah Matthews, Trine Mikkelborg, Kristian Havmand Mortensen, Leena Nahata, Mackenzie Norman, Sheetal R Patel, Charmian Quigley, Lukas O Ridder, Richard J Santen, Nicole Sheanon, Arlene Smyth, Helen Turner, Franciska Verlinde, Mette Hansen Viuff, Malgorzata Wasniewska, Berber van der Weijde, Joachim Woelfle, Jeanne Wolstencroft. “Clinical practice guidelines for the care of girls and women with Turner syndrome: Proceedings from the 2023 Aarhus International Turner Syndrome Meeting”. Eur J Endocrinol. 2024 Jun 5;190(6):G53-G151. doi: 10.1093/ejendo/lvae050. PMID: 38748847.

Non-peer reviewed Reviews

• Evidence-based review of the article:

Patel S and Chintala K, A systemic review of the journal article "Randomized Trial of Pulsed Corticosteroid Therapy for Primary Treatment of Kawasaki Disease" by Newburger et al. published in NEJM 2007. "Synopsis: A current survey of World Literature in Pediatrics" Volume 9 March 2008 issue. 

• Book Chapters [first author (2), Last author (1)]:

• Shrivastava S "Fetal Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome." In: Abdulla, Ri., et al. Pediatric Cardiology. Springer, Cham. 2023 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42937-9_21-1

2. Patel, S.R., Donofrio, M.T. (2023). Delivery Planning for Complex Congenital Heart Disease. In: Abdulla, Ri., et al. Pediatric Cardiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42937-9_29-1

3. Zoeller B, Patel S “Diagnosis and Management of Fetal Arrhythmia” Pediatric Cardiology: Fetal, Pediatric, and Adult Congenital Heart Diseases, edited by Abdulla, R, Springer Nature, 2023

• Oral Abstracts / Presentations 

1. Shah D, Patel S*, Chintala K, Karpawich P Abstract 1974: “Pre-electrophysiology catheterization recognition of venous baffle problems in young adults post-Mustard repair of Transposition of the great arteries” Presented at American Heart Association annual meeting November 2009. Published in Circulation Volume 120, Issue supple-18
2. Patel S, Turner D*, Forbes T and Karpawich P "Long-term follow up of stent angioplasty for atrial baffle obstruction following a Mustard operation for the L-Transposition of the Great Arteries." Oral presentation at the Annual American College of Cardiology conference / i2 summit in Atlanta in March 2010.
3. Patel S*, Shah D, Chintala K, Karpawich P “Unrecognized Need for Vascular Devices During Electrophysiology Catheterization Studies in the Young with Transposition of Great Arteries After Mustard Atrial Baffle Operation” Presented at the Ohio Doctors Interested in Congenital Heart Disease (ODICH) annual meeting in Toledo, OH, in May 2009
4. Patel S*, Valentini R, Mattoo T, Aggarwal S “Effect of Hemodialysis on the Left Ventricular Global Function and Aortic Stiffness in Children with End Stage Renal Disease” Presented at Annual Pediatric Academic Society/ Society for Pediatric Research PAS/SPR Annual meeting May 2009 [Abstract no. 3851.10] at Baltimore, MD
5. Patel S*, Aggarwal S, Mattoo T, Valentini R

“Effect of Hemodialysis on the Left Ventricular Global Function and Aortic Stiffness in Children with End Stage Renal Disease” Presented at the Mid-Western Society for Pediatric Research (MWSPR) meeting 2008, Cleveland, OH

6. Patel S*, Valentini R, Mattoo T, Aggarwal S “The Effect of Hemodialysis on Aortic Stiffness in Children with End Stage Renal Disease” Presented at the Annual American College of Cardiology – Michigan Chapter Annual meeting Sep 2008 held at Traverse City, MI
7. Aggarwal S*, Patel S, Mattoo T, and Valentini R "Left ventricular mechanical desynchrony improves after hemodialysis in children with end-stage renal disease," Presented at the American Society for Echocardiography (ASE) annual meeting in May 2009 in Washington DC.
8. Aggarwal S*, Patel S, Mattoo T, and Valentini R "Myocardial Performance Index: A preload-independent measure of left ventricular global function," Presented at the American Society of Echocardiography Annual Meeting 2008 held at Vancouver, CN
9. Aggarwal S*, Patel S, Mattoo T, and Valentini R "Impaired left ventricular global and diastolic function in children with end-stage renal disease" Presented at the American Society of Echocardiography Annual Meeting 2008 held at Vancouver, CN
10. Desai N*, Mathur M, Patel S, and Trivedi H “Morbidity and Mortality Associated With Organ Dysfunction In A Closely Followed Cohort Of Children With Perinatal HIV/AIDS.” Presented at AIDS Prevention Society meeting 2006
11. Patel S*, Uhl J, Young L, Deal B. “Inferior Vena Cava Diameter as Predictor of Unfavorable Hemodynamics and Risk of Post-Operative Renal Dysfunction in Single Ventricle Patients Undergoing Fontan Conversion Surgery” ACHD symposium 2014, Cincinnati, OH
12. Patel S*, Kwiatkowski DM, Andrei AC, Devareddy A, Shi H, D Krawczeski CD, Ebert N, Deal BJ, J Langman CB, Marino BS “Prevalence and risk factors associated with renal dysfunction in Fontan survivors” Oral presentation at American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions, Washington DC, March 2017

• Patel S*, Costello J, Andrei AC, Backer C, Krawczeski C, Liu M, Deal B, Langman C, Marino B "The Impact of Post-Operative Acute Kidney Injury following Fontan Conversion Surgery. Oral presentation at The World Congress for Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Conference July 2017, Barcelona Spain
• Cox K*, Husain N, Jhaveri S, Geiger M, Berhane H, Patel S Prenatal Echocardiographic Predictors of Perinatal Outcomes in Fetuses with Truncus Arteriosus. Virtual abstract presented at the American Society of Echocardiography annual meeting 2020 held virtually.
• Patel S*, Coghlan M, Patel V, Heilemann N, Verghese G, Hothi D “Code Rainbow” – Improving the transfer process for newborns with critical congenital heart diseases. Abstract presented at American College of Cardiology Quality Summit Oct 8-9, 2020, Virtual.

16. Cohen J*, Arya B, Donofrio M, M, Harrington J, Ho D, Hornberger L, Killen S, Michelfelder E, Moon-Grady A, Patel S, Quezada E, Ronai C, Sanchez Mejia A, Schidlow D, Srivastava S. Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries - Fetal diagnosis, associations, and natural history: A Fetal Heart Society Research Collaborative Study. Abstract accepted for presentation at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Boston, MA, November 2021
17. Cohen J*, Arya B, Caplan R, Donofrio MT, Harrington JK, Ho DY, Hogan W, Hornberger LK, Jhaveri S, Killen S, Michelfelder E, Moon-Grady A, Patel S, Quezada E, Rona C, Sanchez Mejia A, Schidlow D, Stiver C, Thakur V, Srivastava S. "Fetal Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries: Heart Block Occurs More Frequently in Fetuses without Associated Cardiac Defects: A Fetal Heart Society Research Collaborative Study." Accepted for moderated poster abstract presentation at American Society of Echocardiogram Webinar, Seattle, WA, June 2022
18. Cox K*, Husain N, Ansah D, Camp T, Channing A, Cuneo B, Dhanantwari P, Donofrio M, Geiger M, Howley L, Hornberger L, Javeri S, Kaplinski M, Kavanaugh-McHugh A, Kiaffas M,  Kosiv K, Low O, Moon-Grady A, Peyvandi S, Pinto N, Porlier A, Prosnitz A, Rao R, Schidlow D, Sinkovskaya E, Srinivasan R, Stiver C, Arya B, Patel S. "Prenatal Predictors of Perinatal Mortality in Truncus Arteriosus: A Fetal Heart Society Collaborative Study. Accepted for moderated poster abstract presentation at American Society of Echocardiogram Webinar, Seattle, WA, June 2022
19. Nikkan Das*, MD, Havisha Pedamallu, BA, Kristen Young, MS, CGS, Laura H. Rosenthal, MD, Taher Valika, MD, Andrada R. Popescu, MD, Osama M. Eltayeb, MD, Stefani M. Samples, MD, Michael R. Carr, MD, Angira Patel, MD, MPH, Sheetal R. Patel, MD, MSCI Postnatal Outcomes in Prenatally Detected Vascular Rings” American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Session June 2024
20. Kelly Cox, Sheetal Patel, Nazia Husain “Predicting Outcomes in Prenatally Diagnosed Atrioventricular Septal Defects” American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Session June 2024

• Poster Abstracts:

1. Patel S*, Calmus M, Gu H, Duncan C, Jenkins E, Velinov M, Desai N. “Small duplication of 5p15.2-5pter Chromosomal Region Is Associated with Recognizable Phenotype of Severe Mental Retardation, Seizures, Arachnodactyly and scoliosis” Presented at the Pediatric Academic Society (PAS) Meeting held at Baltimore MD May 2005.
2. Patel S*, Shah D, Chintala K, Karpawich P.

"Atrial Baffle complications following a Mustard operation for L-Transposition of the Great Arteries" 
Annual American College of Cardiology conference, Atlanta, GA, March 2010.

• Patel S* “When the minutes count: Post-natal planning in hypoplastic left heart syndrome with intact atrial septum” (ID “097”). To be presented at the 11th Congress of The World Federation of Pediatric Intensive & Critical Care Societies Virtual Congress, hosted by Cape Town, South Africa Committees, July 12-16, 2022
• Woo J*, Cherny S, Chandler S, Brown N, Funk H, Strasburger J, Patel S “Rare Presentation of Fetal Long QT Syndrome With 2:1 Atrioventricular Conduction” American Heart Association’s annual Scientific Sessions 2022, Chicago, IL and virtual Nov 2022
• Patel S*, Dababneh R, Bian Y, Laternser C, Patel A, Patel SG  “Inferior Vena Cava Diameter by Transthoracic Echocardiography Predicts Catheter-based Hemodynamics in Single Ventricle Congenital Heart Defects Patients with Fontal Palliation” American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions, Washington DC, June 2023

• MEDIA [personally created]

• Patel S. Conquering CHD – Awareness & Education blog "New diagnosis – Fetal Echo" https://www.conqueringchd.org/new-diagnosis-fetal-echo/ Posted 2/26/2018
• Patel S, Popescu A, Fisher, Chelluri J, Nguyen K, Rubin K, Madan P, Monge M. “Strategies for improving the management of cardiovascular issues seen in Turner Syndrome” An online multidisciplinary clinical care learning module for providers to understand the cardiovascular concerns in individuals with Turner syndrome. https://turnersyndromefoundation.org/clinical-module-cardiovscular-2021/ posted 06/2021
• Patel S., Lurie Children’s Blog https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/blog/dylan-very-bad-situation-to-normal-baby-thanks-to-fetal-cardiology-specialists/ Posted 02/2022

• MEDIA COVERAGE AND APPEARANCES [created by other teams]

• Patel S, Collins C, Steltzer M, Heilemann N, Burnley K, Jones A, Zoltowski M, Prado E. "Breast Feeding & Congenital Heart Disease," Conquering CHD live webinar recorded and posted in the education series. https://www.conqueringchd.org/breastfeeding/
• Patel S., Lurie News / Doximity “Fetal Cardiac Program Pivots to Adapt to COVID-19 Environment” https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/news-stories/fetal-cardiac-program-pivots-to-adapt-to-covid-19-environment/ 
• Patel S., Precision Podcast, Ann & Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Improving Treatment for the Smallest Heart Patients | Lurie Children's (luriechildrens.org)
• Patel S., Doximity and Lurie News “Fetal Expert Care Begins Before Birth with Team of Specialist”  https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/news-stories/fetal-expert-care-begins-before-birth-with-team-of-specialists/

TEACHING
07/2018-06/2019 / Faculty Instructor, Cardiovascular-Blood module: CV ultrasound – skill session, Undergraduate medical education, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
07/2021-06/2022 / Faculty Instructor, Cardiovascular-Blood module: CVB ultrasound – skill session, Undergraduate medical education, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
07/2022-06/2023 / Problem-Based Learning (PBL) faculty, Cardiovascular-Blood module – Assessment of students, Undergraduate medical education, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
01/2014-08/2022 / Didactic lectures and bedside teaching to medical students and pediatric residents rotating through in-patient cardiology ward and consult service, Dept of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (10 hours per year)
01/2014 - Current / “Echocardiographic evaluation of hypoplastic left heart syndrome: fetal, pre-surgical and post-surgical consideration” Annual didactic talk given to pediatric cardiology categorical fellows and advanced imaging fellows, Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
01/2014 – Current / Direct clinical supervision and training of cardiology and advanced cardiac imaging in topics of transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography scanning, Graduate Medical Education, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
01/2016 - Current  / “Introduction to Fetal Echocardiography” Annual didactic talk given to pediatric cardiology categorical fellows and advanced imaging fellows, Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
07/2018 – Current  / Direct clinical supervision and training of cardiology and advanced cardiac imaging in topics of fetal echocardiography scanning and clinical perinatal management of congenital heart defects, Graduate Medical Education, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
2018 – Current / Fetal Cardiology Education Series. Designed an organized monthly didactic series for cardiology fellows and sonographer trainees.
2017 – 2022 / Monthly Fetal Case Review Conference, Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
2019 – Current / Developer and organizer, “Multidisciplinary delivery planning meeting for fetuses with cardiac anomalies." A clinical care and educational meeting attended by faculty, fellows, and trainees from cardiology, neonatology, and maternal-fetal medicine specialties
2019 – Current / Course Director, Fetal Cardiology Workshop 2019 and 2021. CME Workshop accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and attended by national and international attendees.
2019 – Current / Course Co-Director, Fetology – Practice and Discovery. Annual national / International conference accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
2022 – Current / Course Director, Fetal Cardiology Roundtable Virtual Series. Quarterly webinar series accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) attended by national attendees.  
2022 – Current / Senior Mentor, Development of a standardized clinical simulation case for "Aortic dissection in a teenager with Turner Syndrome." This case is now part of an annual simulation curriculum for fellows in pediatric cardiology and emergency medicine.

MENTORING

Junior Faculty:
Kelly Cox MD, Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Northwestern University, research mentor, mentee outcomes:  abstract presentation at a national meeting, one publication in a peer-reviewed journal, leading a second multicenter study with multiple abstract presentations, and the manuscript is in preparation.
Joyce Johnson MD, Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Northwestern University, research mentor, mentee outcomes:  Ongoing multicenter multi-arm prospective study, outcomes pending
Stefani Samples MD, Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Northwestern University, research mentor, mentee outcomes:  two peer reviewed publications, multiple abstract presentations
Bethan Lemley MD, Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Northwestern University, research mentor, mentee outcomes:  senior research mentor for an ongoing research study

Students/Trainee:
Ankita Devareddy, Medical student, Northwestern University 2016-2020, research mentor and SOC member, mentee outcome – abstract presentation at a national meeting, publication in a peer-reviewed journal
Yuqi Bian, Medical student, Northwestern University 2022-2026, research mentor and SOC member, mentee outcome – abstract presentation at a national meeting, manuscript in progress
Elli Lockhart, Resident, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University 2020-2023, research mentor, mentee outcome – abstract presentation at a national meeting, publication in a peer-reviewed journal
Meghan Attridge, Resident, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University 2019-2022, mentor for medical education project designing clinical simulation case, mentee outcome – abstract presentation at a national meeting, publication in peer-reviewed journal in medical education
Diana Geisser, Cardiology fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Jan 2017-June 2019, Career development mentor and "fellowship coach" through the "fellowship coaching program." Mentee outcome – successful graduation from the pediatric cardiology fellowship and securing a position in a cardiac ICU fellowship|
Brian Wolfe, Cardiology fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University July 2018-June 2021, Career development mentor and "fellowship coach" through the "fellowship coaching program." Mentee outcome – successful graduation from the pediatric cardiology fellowship
Andrew Lawson, Cardiology fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University July 2021 - current, Career development mentor and "fellowship coach" through the "fellowship coaching program." Mentee outcome – pending
Alona Birjinuik, Cardiology fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University 2020-2023, research mentor, mentee outcome – abstract presentation at a national meeting, publication in a peer-reviewed journal
Justin Jin, Cardiac Imaging fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University 2022-2023, research mentor, mentee outcome – abstract presentation at a national meeting, manuscript in progress
Nikkan Das, Cardiac Imaging fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University 2023-2024, research mentor, mentee outcome – abstract presentation at a national meeting, manuscript in progress

 

Dr Boutsikou is a Consultant Cardiologist specialized in Congenital Heart Disease (CHD)and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR). She is the Director of Cardiac MRI and CT Unit at Mediterraneo Hospital in Athens Greece. She was subspecialized in CHD and CHD Echocardiography and subsequently in CMR at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London UK. She holds level 3 certifications in CMR and in Congenital and pediatric CMR from the European Society of Cardiology (EACVI) as well as from the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR). She holds a PhD Degree in Cardiology and two Master Degrees, one in Biostatistics and one in Intensive Care Units-Cardiology Nursing. Since 2022 she has participated in the EACVI Leaders of Tomorrow programme of the European Society of Cardiology. Her research work includes 102 publications, 6 book chapters on Imaging in CHD and more than 150 presentations in National and International Congresses. She has received 15 awards in International Congresses and 2 training Grants for training in CHD and CMR. She is a member of the EACVI Membership and Partner Societies Committee as well as of other 14 National and International Scientific Societies.

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

NAME: Marietta Charakida        

EDUCATION
                                                           
1986 -1992 High School Athens Greece: Graduation Mark 19 10/11  (equivalent to A Levels)
1992-1998 Athens University Medical School : Graduation mark "Excellent"                         
2002-2005 PhD student in Paediatric Cardiology
                                                       Thesis title: “Infection and early vascular disease in childhood”,
University College London, Institute of Child Health

QUALIFICATIONS

1-12-2021	MSc in Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene
14-2-2013	PhD Kapodistriako University Athens Greece Thesis title “The role of inflammatory and thrombotic factors in vascular disease in children with familial hypercholesterolemia”
24-3-2008	Pediatric specialty final exams written and oral  (MRCPCH 2 equivalent)
25-9- 2006	MRCPCH part 1a and 1b
31-7-2006	PhD in Pediatric Cardiology UCL London University. Thesis title “The impact of infection in early atherosclerosis”
02-7-2001	Teaching Diploma Accreditation, University of Teaching Athens, Greece
28-7-1998	MBBS (excellent, distinction) Kapodistriako University of Athens, Greece
10-7-1992	Graduation from High School, Arsakeio Athens Greece Graduation Mark 19 10/11-excellent         (Equivalent to A levels)

PRIZES/ AWARDS

2014	Certification in Congenital Heart Disease Echocardiography
2005	UCL award trustees for completion of research project
2005	Student prize in the 9th Spring Meeting of    Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health
2003-2004	From the Greek Heart Society (ELIKAR)
2003	Young Investigators Award in the European Congress of Cardiology (Vienna 2003)
2001-2003	From the Fellowship of Ministry of   Health, Athens, Greece
1992-1998	From the National Fellowship Award

PRESENT APPOINTMENT

2024-                                     Assistant Professor in Paediatrics/ Paediatric and Fetal Cardiology EKPA,2nd University Paediatric Clinic, Athens Greece
2020-2023                     Lecturer in Paediatrics/Paediatric Cardiology EKPA, 2nd University Paediatric Clinic, Athens Greece
2015-                            Senior Lecturer/ Honorary Consultant in Fetal and Paediatric Cardiology, Evelina     Children’s hospital and Kings College London

2012 -2015

Academic Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Cardiology/SpR level in Paediatric Cardiology at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences.

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

2010- 2012                    Academic Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Cardiology (SpR level in Paediatric Cardiology, Evelina Children’s hospital, Supervisor Dr Gerald Greil) (NTN LDN/097/008/E). Full time Clinical duties
2008- 2010                       Clinical fellow in Cardiac Echo and MRI at GOSH  (full time clinical duties)
2006-2008                     Resident in Paediatrics and Neonatology Unit at Aglaia Kyriakou hospital Athens Greece
2001-2005:                    H.Registrar in Pediatric Cardiology and Infectious Diseases Department in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
2000-2001:                    Clinical Fellow, Department of Cardiology in Hippokration Hospital Director: Professor P Toutouzas
1998-2000                     Resident in General Medicine, Cardiology and General Surgery Evangelismos Hospital of Athens and General Medical Center, Serifos
1997-1998:                    House Surgeon, General Surgery to Professor Androulakis Nikaia Hospital of Athens
House Physician, Paediatrics to Professor Karpathios Aglaia Kyriakou Hospital Athens
House Physician, Medicine to Professor Sfikakis Laikon Hospital Athens
House Surgeon, Gynaecology/Obstretics to Professor Aravantinos Aleksandra Hospital of Athens

FELLOWSHIPS

• 2003    Fellowship of Ministry of Health, Athens, Greece
• Fellowship from the Hellenic Cardiological Society
• Fellowship of Ministry of Health, Athens, Greece

GRANTS (PI INVESTIGATOR)
1. Study of Emerging Adulthood and Cardiometabolic Health in ALSPAC: the INfluence of Growth and other Exposures (SEA CHANGE) BHF Clinical Study no. CS/15/6/31468
999,049 (co-PI, Co Applicant) awarded 25/6/2015 duration 4 years 10 months
2. Pump priming funding from Kings: “Development and validation of software for assessment of fetal vascular properties using ultrasound movie clips”. £36,983.70
3. Early life interventions to reduce childhood obesity and related metabolic disease. Strategic Award. Kings Together Grant. CoPI £67,661
5. Advanced cardiovascular assessment in pregnancy. FMF award £500,000 Chief Investigator awarded 13/12/2017
6. Toshiba sponshorship for the conduct of Advanced cardiovascular assessment in pregnancy £600,000.
7. Guy’s and St Thomas’s Charity. Fetal Cardiology Telemedicine. Award £6572,71

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES- MANAGEMENT- TRAINING AND COURSES  
Recorded education database contribution 2021/22: 266 hours
Leadership role in education:

• In my role as organizer of the Anatomy Physiology SubModule of the 7MIGEP21 Module , I am responsible in the selection of the internal and external lecturers to assist in the delivery of the course material. I have oversight in the course work design and material delivered and I am responsible for all the examining material including essays/ dissertations. I am having central role as examiner in oral and written assessments.
• I am responsible for teaching in maternal and fetal cardiac functional imaging in Fetal Medicine Fellows at Kings College Hospital and I have organized a rotational programme for continuous learning and skill development in fetal cardiac imaging in the department.
• I am also having active role in undergraduate education in Athens and in London, UK
• Since 2019, I act as an Academic Training Lead in the Paediatric Cardiology SAC. I participate in all the meetings and having active role in formulating changes in the curriculum for the paediatric cardiology trainees as well as promoting and advancing the academic training programme.
• I have been acting as an OSCE examiner for medical students
• I am primary supervisor for 7 International PhD students
• I have acted as a TPC chair for 3 King’s PhD students (Milou Van Poppel, Johannes Steinweg, Jorge Mariscal Harana, Mari Velasco Forte.
• I am personal tutor for 15 Medical students

Innovation and excellence in teaching/education:
Invited speaker in the Annual Paediatric Conference of the 2nd Paediatric University Clinic, Athens, Greece since 2020
I have been invited as a speaker for the Pregnancy Complications and offspring cardiovascular health symposium organized in Wolsfson College in Oxford.
Since 2015, I have been an invited speaker for the Advances in Fetal Medicine Courses organized on a yearly basis by the Fetal Medicine Foundation which hosts more than 2000 attendees.
Since 2015 I have been involved in the organization and delivery of fetal cardiology educational programme which is hosted on a yearly basis by Canon Medical Company.

Internal examiner for MSc student: I have acted as an examiner for the MSc Viva for Jiangdon Liang.
External examiner for PhD students: I have acted as invited external examiner for the following PhD theses

1. Deesha Pater (Imperial College 2021)
2. Loryn Halliday (Kingston University 2021)
3. Katherine Chen (University of Melbourne 2017)

International teaching programme

• Guest Lecturer in the Vth Internation Congress of Maternal Fetal Medicine in Bulgaria
• Since 2015, I have been an invited speaker for the World Congress in Fetal Medicine, to deliver knowledge on fetal cardiology and present cutting research in the field of fetal cardiac functional imaging.

• Invited speaker for the International Course in Fetal Echocardiography organized in Granada in 2019
• For the last 2 years I am one of the lecturers contributing in the MSc lecturing programme of High Risk Pregnancies in Attikon Hospital in Greece.
• I am also participating in the webinar for fetal growth restriction organized in Obstetrics Gynecology-FetoMaternal and Perinatal Medicine Alexandra Hospital, Althens Greece
• Invited lectures on perinatal symposium in Athens Greece
• Invited lectures on annual conference of congenital heart defects in Mitera Hospital Athens, Greece

Creativity
During the pandemic I have taken the opportunity to organize and host virtual platforms for the students and all studied material and presentations were delivered online. I have participated and helped in organizing the fetal echocardiography course webinar sessions which been delivered online this year by Canon Medical Company. Contributed in the development of new ultrasound system technology in collaboration with Canon Medical Company for the assessment of fetal vascular imaging

                                   
REVIEWER FOR JOURNALS
I act as reviewer for the following journals:

1. New England Journal of Medicine
2. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinology
3. Circulation
4. European Heart Journal (over 50 last year)
5. Journal of American College of Cardiology                      
6. Pediatrics                                                         
7. Pediatric Research                                             
8. International Journal of Cardiology         
9. Clinical Nutrition                                                                                              
10. Coronary Artery Disease                       
11. Current Medicinal Chemistry                 
12. Journal of Endocrinology                                                          
13. Lupus                                                              
14. Pediatric Infectious Diseases                  
15. Current HIV research (CHIVR)

Editorial board member

1. International editorial board member for European Heart Journal
2. Associate editor for Clinical Obesity

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

1. Marietta Charakida. Fetal Circulation and Perinatal Programming ESC textbook (proofs)
2. Marietta Charakida and John Deanfield. Arterial Disease in the Young. ESC textbook (proofs)
3. Marietta Charakida and Lars Sondergaard. Coarctation. ESC textbook (proofs)
4. Marietta Charakida and John Deanfield. Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection. ESC textbook (proofs)
5. Marietta Charakida and John Simpson. Abnormalities of systemic and pulmonary veins. Fetal textbook, Springer
6. Marietta Charakida and Owen Miller. Postnatal management of congenital heart disease. Springer

1. Chiesa S, Farmaki E, Zacharia E, Tousoulis D, Charakida M. Lifestyle choices, risk factors and cardiovascular disease. Translational Cardiovascular Medicine. Elsevier
2. Charakida M, Tousoulis Dimitris. Inflammatory disorders and vascular endothelium. Risk factors and Vascular Endothelium, NOVA publishing San Francisco-USA 2009
3.  Charakida M, Tousoulis D. Inflammation and early atherosclerosis. Silent vasculopathy in children. Should clinician care?NOVA publishing 2009.
4. Charakida M, John E Deanfield. Vascular endothelium in the young. Risk factors and Vascular Endothelium, NOVA publishing San Francisco-USA 2009.
5. Tousoulis D, Charakida M, Antoniades C, Stefanadi E, Tentolouris C, Stefanadis C. Endothelial Dysfunction in stable angina pectoris: potential therapeutic implications.  Women and Cardiovascular Diseases   NOVA publishing, San Francisco-USA 2008
6. Charakida M, Julian P Halcox, John E Deanfield. Cardiovascular risk factors in infancy and childhood. Pediatric Cardiology 2007 vol 17
7. Charakida M, John E Deanfield. Vascular dysfunction in atherosclerosis: Importance of lifetime management. Horizons in Medicine 2005 vol 22.
8.  Charakida M, Tousoulis Dimitris. The role of endothelium in heart failure. Cardiological Subjects 2003; 10:122-126.

RESEARCH ACTIVITY
I have been appointed as a Lecturer and then as Assistant Professor in Paediatrics/ Paediatric Cardiology in Athens University. During the last 4 years I have initiated and established research programme on long term cardiovascular implications of COVID-19 infection in children and established regular preventative paediatric cardiology clinics.

I have been appointed as Senior Lecturer at Kings’ College London since 1st of September 2015 having completed my work as a Clinical Lecturer at University College London. During this period, I have initiated and established an extensive research programme “Advanced Cardiovascular assessment in pregnancy” for which I am the Chief Investigator at Kings’ College London. The purpose of this initiative was to investigate the impact of maternal risk factors on maternal and fetal cardiovascular system.
In addition, I am leading extensive research work in congenital heart disease. I have established strong collaborations within the Fetal Maternal Medicine Unit at Kings and St Thomas’ whilst maintaining strong links and colloborations with UCL and Bristol University.

My research work has been supported by the Fetal Medicine Foundation and key industrial partners includings Canon Medical and Philips. Canon Medical Company has sponsored my research work under the framework of a Product Evaluation Agreement between Canon Medical Systems Europe BV and King’s College London and provided 3 Canon Aplio i900 Ultra-Preium Ultrasound Systems including high performance transducers and advanced software representing a commercial value of approximately 3* GBP 200.000
3x Canon/ Vital Images Vitrea UL Base Workstations with various softwares modules representing a commercial value of approximately 3xGBP 25000.
In the last year Philips Company has provided 2 ultrasound systems and high performance transducers to establish cardiovascular research in IVF pregnancies.

Whilst providing excellence in the quality of teaching and academic and clinical work, I have already built an innovative programme of research work having performed detailed cardiovascular imaging in more than 20000 pregnant women and fetuses. My cardiovascular work has made significant contributions in understanding the role of maternal cardiovascular system and the development of pregnancy complications as well as demonstrated associations about fetal cardiac functional and structural alterations and maternal risk factors. I have an ambitious plan to continue with postpartum phenotyping and set up preventative clinics in collaboration with expert in the field. In this clinics my aspiration would be to monitor cardiovascular changes in women who have experienced pregnancy as well as set up preventative offspring clinics with the aim to reduce modifiable risk factors including obesity and blood pressure.

PUBLICATIONS
My google scholar h index is h10 index: 104, h-index: 38, citations: 6356

I have 162 publications in pubmed

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (last 3 years)
1. Aguilera J, Semmler J, Anzoategui S, Zhang H, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Cardiac function in gestational diabetes mellitus: A longitudinal study from fetal life to infancy. BJOG 2021; 128: 272-279.
2. Chiesa ST, Charakida M, Georgiopoulos G, Dangardt F, Wade KH, Rapala A, Bhowruth DJ, Nguyen HC, Muthurangu V, Shroff R, Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA, Sattar N, Timpson NJ, Hughes AD, Deanfield JE. Determinants of Intima-Media Thickness in the Young: The ALSPAC Study. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging 2021; 14: 468-478.
3. Company Calabuig AM, Nunez E, Sánchez A, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M, De Paco Matallana C. Three-dimensional echocardiography and cardiac strain imaging in women with gestational diabetes mellitus. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2021; 58: 278-284.
4. Dumitrascu-Biris I, Zidere V, Vigneswaran T, Charakida M, Mathur S, Kametas N, Simpson J. Dilated ascending aorta in the fetus. Prenat Diagn 2021; 41: 1127-1133.
5. Georgiopoulos G, Oikonomou D, Pateras K, Masi S, Magkas N, Delialis D, Ajdini E, Vlachou V, Stamatelopoulos K, Charakida M. A Bayesian meta-analysis on early tobacco exposure and vascular health: From childhood to early adulthood. EurJPrevCardiol2021; 28: 1315-1322.
6. Gibbone E, Sapantzoglou I, Nuñez-Cerrato ME, Wright A, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Relationship between ophthalmic artery Doppler and maternal cardiovascular function. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2021; 57: 733-738.
7. Gibbone E, Wright A, Campos RV, Anzoategui S, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Maternal cardiac function at 19-23 weeks' gestation in prediction of gestational diabetes mellitus. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2021; 58: 77-82.
8. Gibbone E, Wright A, Vallenas Campos R, Sanchez Sierra A, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Maternal cardiac function at 19-23 weeks' gestation in prediction of pre-eclampsia. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2021; 57: 739-747.
9.Lloyd DFA, van Poppel MPM, Pushparajah K, Vigneswaran TV, Zidere V, Steinweg J, van Amerom JFP, Roberts TA, Schulz A, Charakida M, Miller O, Sharland G, Rutherford M, Hajnal JV, Simpson JM, Razavi R. Analysis of 3-Dimensional Arch Anatomy, Vascular Flow, and Postnatal Outcome in Cases of Suspected Coarctation of the Aorta Using Fetal Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging. CircCardiovascImaging2021; 14: e012411.
10.Mariscal-Harana J, Charlton PH, Vennin S, Aramburu J, Florkow MC, van Engelen A, Schneider T, de Bliek H, Ruijsink B, Valverde I, Beerbaum P, Grotenhuis H, Charakida M, Chowienczyk P, Sherwin SJ, Alastruey J. Estimating central blood pressure from aortic flow: development and assessment of algorithms. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2021; 320: H494-h510.
11.Sapantzoglou I, Wright A, Arozena MG, Campos RV, Charakida M, Nicolaides KH. Ophthalmic artery Doppler in combination with other biomarkers in prediction of pre-eclampsia at 19-23 weeks' gestation. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2021; 57: 75-83.
12.Sarno M, Wright A, Vieira N, Sapantzoglou I, Charakida M, Nicolaides KH. Ophthalmic artery Doppler in combination with other biomarkers in prediction of pre-eclampsia at 35-37 weeks' gestation. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2021; 57: 600-606.
13.Semmler J, Abdel-Azim S, Anzoategui S, Zhang H, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Influence of birth weight on fetal cardiac indices at 35-37 weeks' gestation. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2021; 57: 266-272.
14.Semmler J, Garcia-Gonzalez C, Sanchez Sierra A, Gallardo Arozena M, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Fetal cardiac function at 35-37 weeks' gestation in pregnancies that subsequently develop pre-eclampsia. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2021; 57: 417-422.
15.Sletner L, Crozier SR, Inskip HM, Godfrey KM, Mahon P, Chiesa ST, Charakida M, Cooper C, Hanson M. Childhood vascular phenotypes have differing associations with prenatal and postnatal growth. JHypertens2021; 39: 1884-1892.
16.Vigneswaran TV, Jabak S, Syngelaki A, Charakida M, Simpson JM, Nicolaides KH, Zidere V. Prenatal incidence of isolated right aortic arch and double aortic arch. JMaternFetalNeonatalMed2021; 34: 2985-2990.
17.Yovera L, Zaharia M, Jachymski T, Velicu-Scraba O, Coronel C, de Paco Matallana C, Georgiopoulos G, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Impact of gestational diabetes mellitus on fetal cardiac morphology and function: cohort comparison of second- and third-trimester fetuses. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2021; 57: 607-613.
18.Zidere V, Vigneswaran TV, Syngelaki A, Charakida M, Allan LD, Nicolaides KH, Simpson JM, Akolekar R. Reference Ranges for Pulsed-Wave Doppler of the Fetal Cardiac Inflow and Outflow Tracts from 13 to 36 Weeks' Gestation. JAmSocEchocardiogr2021; 34: 1007-1016.e1010.
19.Abdel Azim S, Sarno M, Wright A, Vieira N, Charakida M, Nicolaides KH. Ophthalmic artery Doppler at 35-37 weeks' gestation in pregnancies with small or growth-restricted fetuses. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2022; 59: 483-489.
20.Abdel Azim S, Wright A, Sapantzoglou I, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Ophthalmic artery Doppler at 19-23 weeks' gestation in pregnancies that deliver small-for-gestational-age neonates. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2022; 60: 52-58.
21.Anzoategui S, Gibbone E, Wright A, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Midgestation cardiovascular phenotype in women who develop gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: comparative study. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2022; 60: 207-214.
22.Chiesa ST, Charakida M. Physical activity and cardiovascular risk: No such thing as 'Too little, too late'. EurJPrevCardiol2022; 28: e15-e16.
23. Chiesa ST, Charakida M, Georgiopoulos G, Roberts JD, Stafford SJ, Park C, Mykkänen J, Kähönen M, Lehtimäki T, Ala-Korpela M, Raitakari O, Pietiäinen M, Pussinen P, Muthurangu V, Hughes AD, Sattar N, Timpson NJ, Deanfield JE. Glycoprotein Acetyls: A Novel Inflammatory Biomarker of Early Cardiovascular Risk in the Young. JAmHeartAssoc2022; 11: e024380.
24.Gana N, Sarno M, Vieira N, Wright A, Charakida M, Nicolaides KH. Ophthalmic artery Doppler at 11-13 weeks' gestation in prediction of pre-eclampsia. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2022; 59: 731-736.
25.Gibbone E, Huluta I, Wright A, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Maternal Cardiac Function at Midgestation and Development of Preeclampsia. JAmCollCardiol2022; 79: 52-62.
26.Nunez E, Huluta I, Gallardo Arozena M, Wright A, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Maternal cardiac function in twin pregnancy at 19-23 weeks' gestation. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2022; 59: 627-632.
27.Polyviou S, Charakida M, Miller OI, Rscn TW, Vigneswaran TV, Zidere V, Day TG, Lloyd DFA, Sharland GK, Simpson JM. Outcome and Impact of Associated Left-Sided Cardiac Lesions in Coarctation of the Aorta Diagnosed During Fetal Life. AmJCardiol2022; 166: 114-121.
28.Simpson J, Charakida M, Semmler J. Angle Independency of Fetal Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography: Response. JAmSocEchocardiogr2022; 35: 785.
29.Company Calabuig AM, Nunez E, Georgiopoulos G, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M, De Paco Matallana C. Three-dimensional echocardiography and strain cardiac imaging in women with pre-eclampsia with follow up to six months postpartum. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2023. DOI: 10.1002/uog.27442.
30.Garcia-Gonzalez C, Nunez E, Zhang H, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Maternal and Offspring Cardiovascular Function following Pregnancy with Hypertensive Disorder. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13.
31.Huluta I, Wright A, Cosma LM, Dimopoulou S, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Fetal cardiac function at midgestation and conception by in-vitro fertilization. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2023; 61: 587-592.
32.Huluta I, Wright A, Cosma LM, Hamed K, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Fetal Cardiac Function at Midgestation and Subsequent Development of Preeclampsia. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2023.05.008.
33.Huluta I, Wright A, Cosma LM, Hamed K, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Fetal Cardiac Function at Midgestation in Women Who Subsequently Develop Gestational Diabetes. JAMAPediatr2023; 177: 718-725.
34. Mansukhani T, Arechvo A, Cecchini F, Breim M, Wright A, Nicolaides KH, Charakida M. Vascular phenotype at 35-37 weeks' gestation in women with gestational diabetes mellitus. UltrasoundObstetGynecol2023; 61: 386-391.
35.Mansukhani T, Wright A, Arechvo A, Laich A, Iglesias M, Charakida M, Nicolaides KH. Ophthalmic artery Doppler at 36 weeks' gestation in the prediction of pre-eclampsia: validation and update of previous model. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2023. DOI: 10.1002/uog.27464.

Earning her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine (1989), internal medicine/ pediatric internship from University of Michigan (1989-90), and pediatric residency from University of Michigan (1990 - 1992), Dr Samyn received her fellowship training in pediatric cardiology at University of Iowa (1994 - 1997) after being a community pediatrician in Ann Arbor. Upon completion of her cardiology fellowship, Dr. Samyn acquired translational/clinical research training during her years (1997 - 2003) in the pharmaceutical industry, where she served as a Director of Cardiovascular Research at Parke-Davis/ Warner Lambert (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and subsequently Pfizer Global Research and Development (Ann Arbor, Michigan). She contributed to the Lipitor clinical trials, to a novel gene therapy trial (AdVEGF) for neovascularization, and as a reviewer of candidate drugs in the Section of Experimental Medicine. Her background in clinical medicine and cardiovascular research is unique and is complimented by her recent acquisition of MBA from the University of Notre Dame (2021, Magna Cum Laude). As a Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Dr Samyn sees patients within the Herma Heart Institute at Children's Wisconsin and is the new Assistant Dean of Scholarly Activities for the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Wisconsin).

Working with the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), Dr Samyn served as the founding co-chair of the Pediatric/ Congenital Heart Disease Research Committee (2010), chairing this committee for ten years. She co-authored two seminal guideline papers (Fratz et al. Cardiovasc Magn Reason. 2013 Jun 13; 15 (1):51 and Dorfman et al. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2022 Jul 21; 24 (1): 44a) and has worked on many collaboratives, multi-center CMR studies. Dr Samyn is the principal investigator (along with Drs Jonathan Soslow and Bruce Damon) for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research (5R01HL164995-03, "Predictive modeling of acute rejection in pediatric heart transplant recipients"). This multi-center study investigates CMR versus endomyocardial biopsy to detect acute rejection for heart transplant recipients.

Dr Petros V Anagnostopoulos, MD, MBA is the Chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at the American Family Children’s Hospital and Professor of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, Wisconsin. His training as a Congenital Heart Surgery includes a Cardiothoracic Residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and a clinical Congenital Heart fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. After working as an attending surgeon at Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Phoenix Arizona and an Assistant Professor at UCSF, Dr Anagnostopoulos joined the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics with the goal to build a thriving academic pediatric cardiothoracic surgery program in 2011. Since 2011 the Program in Madison has enjoyed significant growth, is performing over 260 total cases a year and has become a tertiary and quaternary referral center in the upper Midwest. The program has been ranked as a top 50 programs in the nation by US News and World Report for the last 6 consecutive years and since 2023 has expanded to include a Pediatric Heart Transplant and Ventricular Assist Device Program.

Dr Anagnostopoulos is a member of the Congenital Heart Surgeon’s Society (member of both the Research Committee and of the Quality and Outcomes Committee), the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (member of the Congenital Clinical Practice Standards Committee) and of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and of the American Academy of Pediatrics (member of the Section on Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery). He has co-authored 82 peer-reviewed journals and 3 book chapters. He has given numerous local, regional, national and international oral presentations. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and of the World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. He is an Ad-Hoc Reviewer for several scientific journals.

Dr Srinivasan is Associate Professor in Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her training in pediatric cardiology includes fellowship at New York University Medical Center in NY, and a year of advanced imaging fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. Following this she spent a couple of years as a consultant in Pediatric Cardiology at Madras Medical Mission. She joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin Madison in 2001. Her interests are driven by her passion for advanced imaging, fetal cardiology and teaching.
She is the director of fetal cardiology program and fetal outreach services at the American Family Children’s Hospital (AFCH) in Madison since 2002. In addition, she is the director of fetal cardiology services for the UW Health fetal surgery center, the physician lead for 3-Dimensional echocardiography and the physician lead for the Multi-Disciplinary Fontan Follow up clinic at AFCH. Past appointments include Co-Director of the pediatric echocardiography laboratory at AFCH and physician lead for the multi-disciplinary muscular dystrophy clinic. She has authored/coauthored 3 book chapters and several peer reviewed articles. Her research and teaching interests include multi-modality evaluation of congenital heart disease including 3D echo, fetal arrhythmias and development of community outreach programs in fetal cardiology and use of simulation in teaching.

Anne Marie Valente, MD is a Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She received a B.S. from Boston College and M.D. from the University of Vermont College of Medicine. She completed residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Cardiovascular Disease at Duke University. She is the Chief of the Boston Adult Congenital Heart (BACH) Disease and Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Co-Director of the Pregnancy and Cardiovascular Disease Program at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her expertise is in cardiovascular imaging with a focus in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. Dr. Valente’s research interests include identifying risk factors for adverse outcomes in adults with congenital heart disease and developing strategies to improve outcomes in women with heart disease during pregnancy. She is the primary investigator for the INDICATOR registry, which is an international multicenter registry to determine predictors of adverse clinical outcomes in patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot.

Professor of Paediatrics-Paediatric Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece. Head of Pediatric Cardiology Unit, University Hospital Heraklion, Crete. Teaching and research interests include cardiac auscultation (computer-based applications, e-learning), school screening for CV disease, fetal cardiology, modern pediatric cardiology imaging and teaching.
Medical school studies in Kapodestrian Medical School Athens and pediatric fellowship program (Crete), training in Pediatric and Fetal Cardiology in Greece (Onassis Cardiac Centre, Athens), Germany (Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, University of Freiburg). Since 2004 elected Faculty Member of School of Medicine, University of Crete (Lecturer, Associate, Assistant, Professor position since 2024) . Sabbatical visits in Imperial College, Center of Fetal Care Hammersmith and Brompton Hospitals London (fetal cardiology -2007) and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School (CHD cardiac CMR-2011). Member of AEPC, Greek and German Pediatric and Pediatric Cardiology Societies.
Serves as reviewer and Editor in medical Journals, organized awarded Erasmus Intensive Programmes in Pediatric Cardiology for European Medical Students, visiting Professor in European Medical Faculties and Lifelong learning programmes.
Language skills include English and German, hobbies include guitar playing, philosophy and history book reading, sea sports -windsurfing.

Dr Pipina Bonou studied Medicine at the University of Patras 1989-1995. She trained in positions approved for training in General Paediatrics (including rotation in Neonatology and Paediatric Subspecialties) in Greece and in the UK. She was finally qualified in General Paediatrics after passing the National Greek Examinations in 2002. Following that she pursued further training in Paediatric Cardiology and subsequently in Fetal Echocardiography (2002-2009). Her training included rotation at the Onassis Cardiac Center (2002-2004), SpR positions in Paediatric Cardiology at Southampton General Hospital (2004), Great Ormond Street Hospital (2004-2006) and Evelina Children’s Hospital (2006-2009). During this period she trained also for a year at the Pulmonary Hypertension department at GOSH and for 7 months in PICU at Evelina Children’s Hospital. In 2009 she returned to Greece to hold Paediatric Cardiology Consultant positions at Mitera Children’s Hospital (2009-2020) and Iaso Children’s Hospital (2020-up to date). She holds the EACVI Certificate in Congenital Heart Disease since March 2019 and her special interests are Pulmonary Hypertension, Congenital Heart Disease Echocardiography, Fetal echocardiography and perioperative care of patients with congenital heart disease. She has participated in several studies, she has published articles and presented in numerous conferences.

Thomas Vrachliotis is Head of Radiology at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens, Greece. He is board certified by the Hellenic Board of Radiology and the American Board of Radiology. Dr. Vrachliotis completed Radiology residencies at Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, and OSU Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio. He is fellowship trained in Body CT at Beth Israel Hospital, Cardiovascular MRI at William Beaumont Hospital, and Cardiovascular-Interventional Radiology at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School. His research interests are in Cardiovascular Imaging and Interventional Radiology. Dr. Vrachliotis has authored 45 scientific articles and 15 book chapters and is an active reviewer for CVIR, JVIR, Radiology, and RadioGraphics. He is Associate Editor in Radiographics.

Born 1967
University of Patras Medical School in 1985 after National examinations. (Number of success sixth). Graduation in 1991 with grade ‘very good’ (8.03 out of 10.0, 3rd best degree of graduation)
Rural service 1992-1994 (Health Centre of Areopolis, Greece)
Trainee in General Paediatrics 1995-1999. (Acquisition of the specialty in Paediatrics after board examinations)
Clinical research fellow in Paediatric and Perinatal Cardiolgy at Imperial College, London 2000-2002
(Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte’s Hospitals; Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK)
Junior Consultant at the NICU of the University of Patras, Greece 2002-2005
Clinical research Fellow in Neonatal Cardiology  and Neonatal registrar at Imperial College , London 2006 (4 1/2 months) and 2006 (1/2 months)(Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK)
Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics-Paediatric Cardiology, University of Patras Medical School 2006-2010
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Paediatrics-Paediatric Cardiology, University of Patras Medical School 2010-2014 (on a 3-year contract)
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Paediatrics-Paediatric Cardiology Cardiology, University of Patras Medical School 2014-2018 (permanent position)
Reader (Associate Professor) in Paediatrics-Paediatric Cardiology at the University of Patras Medical School in 2018
Professor of Paediatrics-Paediatric cardiology from 2022 until now
PUBLICATIONS 96 in pubmed, 3 in Scopus
Citations 1254 Self citations 30
h-index 18
BOOK CHAPTERS 9
REVIEWER 64 journals
Member of the editorial board 3 journals
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Paediatric Cardiology  (from fetus to adult)
Fetal and Paediatric Echocardiography
Risk factors for adult onset cardiovascular disease (fetal programming)
Epidemiology of congenital heart disease
Pulmonary hypertension
Non-invasive assessment of vascular dysfunction and subclinical atherosclerosis
Side effects of maternal smoking.

Is renowned for her expertise in echocardiography and the diagnosis of complex congenital heart diseases spanning from fetal stages through adulthood. Her career is marked by unwavering commitment to patient care, education, mentorship and clinical research. She currently serves as the Division Chief of Cardiology and Co-Director of the Cardiac Center, Principal Researcher at Nemours and Professor of Pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University and Sidney Kimmel Medical School. She co-chaired the revision of imaging training guidelines and served as president of the Society of Pediatric Cardiology Training Program Directors. Her leadership extends to esteemed national societies, inclusive of steering committee of the Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Council of the ASE, Q Net-NCDR-ACC and as President of the Society of Pediatric Echocardiography. She has also served as a scientific sessions chair and committee at ASE and ACC respectively. She has mentored many cardiologists, published over 100 publications, served on JACC Imaging and JASE editorial board and her proficiency lies in advanced echocardiographic techniques and their role in influencing management and outcomes.

Dr Theodora Zaglavara is a Consultant Cardiologist with a Special Interest in Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging, based in Thessaloniki, Greece. She is the President-elect of the Cardiovascular Imaging Working Group, Hellenic Society of Cardiology. She holds a Medical Degree and PhD Degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine.
After completing her training in Cardiology in Thessaloniki Greece, she has worked in the UK initially as a Research Fellow and as a Staff Grade Cardiologist ((Freeman Cardiothoracic Center, Newcastle upon Tyne) and subsequently as a Locum Consultant Cardiologist in several hospitals in England and in Scotland. She has been awarded Training Fellowships and Research Grants from the ESC, the European Commission and the Hellenic Society of Cardiology. She has Long-standing clinical experience in several Hospitals in the UK and in Greece.
She holds accreditations in Advanced Echo /Stress Echo/TOE (Hellenic National Accreditation), Cardiac CT (Level III BSCCT/BSCI), CMR (EACVI Exams, Logbook pending).
She is a member of faculty and organizing committee of the Annual CT Course of the Hellenic Society of Cardiology.

Dr Eva Nyktari is a Cardiology Consultant working at Onasis Cardiosurgery Center with expertise in cardiovascular MRI covering the entire spectrum of cardiovascular diseases.
She studied medicine at the University of Crete and did her postgraduate training initially in internal medicine (Crete) and then in cardiology in Sweden and University hospital of Crete. After finishing Cardiology training (2009) had worked as a consultant in the university hospital of Crete with a special interest in advanced cardiac imaging. She continued at the Royal Brompton Hospital (6 years) where she received level 3 accreditation from both the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and the European Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and worked as a CMR Lead Consultant in Adult Congenital Heart Disease.
Dr Nyktari is highly involved in clinical research in the field of arrhythmias, Congenital and inherited structural heart disease and Cardiovascular MR imaging.

Nadine F. Choueiter, MD, is an Associate Professor of Pediatric Cardiology and Radiology and will be assuming the positions as Director of the Congenital Cardiac MRI Program and Co-Director of the Kawasaki Disease Follow-up Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Children’s Heart Center. Dr. Choueiter is a multimodality imager with expertise in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, echocardiography, and fetal echocardiography for the diagnosis of congenital heart disease. She is on the steering committee of society of cardiac MR (SCMR) pediatric and congenital heart disease working group and chair of the quality improvement subcommittee for pediatric and congenital heart disease. She is also an expert in the management of cardiac complications in children with Kawasaki disease and MIS-C. She is particularly well known for her collaborative work with the international KD registry to determine the medium-term outcomes of children with KD and those with MIS-C. She has co-authored many papers on this topic. She is also the first author on the initial drug trial evaluating the safety of Etanercept in children with KD. She was the site principal investigator for the subsequent FDA-funded multicenter randomized trial evaluating the efficacy of etanercept in the same patient population. She is a founding member of the Kawasaki disease in the Arab World (Kawarabi). She currently serves on the American Heart Association Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease Committee of the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and on the international Kawasaki disease Registry (IKDR) steering committee She is a founding member of the Kawasaki disease in the Arab World (Kawarabi).

Doaa Aly is a pediatric cardiologist specialized in non-invasive imaging, with a special interest in 3D imaging, machine learning and artificial intelligence. She is the director 3D echocardiography program, at Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

Alexandros Sotiriadis is Professor of Obstetrics-Gynecology, Fetal-Maternal Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, member of the Board of Trustees of ISUOG, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, President-elect of the Hellenic Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director of Cochrane Greece, and Director of a Postgraduate Program at AUTH (Applied Prenatal Screening).
He has authored 160 articles in international peer-reviewed PubMed-indexed journals, with 5000 citations, in SCOPUS, and h-index of 38. He has further authored one book and has contributed to 10 chapters in Greek or foreign-language books.
His areas of expertise include evidence-based Medicine (including meta-analysis), creation of statistical models of normal values and prediction models, pregnancy complications, prenatal diagnosis, genetics.

Pediatric Cardiologist
Dep. Director. Of Pediatric Cardiology Department “Mitera Hospital

ACADEMICS
10/1981 Medical degree, Athens University School of Medicine
12/1993 Certified Cardiologist
7/1994  PhD, Athens University School of Medicine
POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION
1987- 1988   Trainee in Internal Medicine at Spiliopoulion Hospital, Athens
1988-1989 Clinical Fellow, Hypertension Unit of University Department of Cardiology (Ippokration Hospital), Athens 
1989-1992       Trainee in Cardiology at University Department of Cardiology (Ippokration Hospital), Athens 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  
3/2014- today : Member of Pediatric Cardiology Specialist Group,  Pediatric Cardiology Department,  Mitera Hospital,

12/2013-3/2014: Member of Pediatric Cardiology Specialist Group,  Pediatric Cardiology Department, Iaso Hospital

2012-2013: Attached as visiting physician at Pediatric  Cardiology Department, Onassis Heart Center, Athens

2010- 12/2013: Consultant Cardiologist , Helena Venizelou -General and Maternity Hospital, Athens
2008 -2009: Attached as a member of staff , Cardiac Unit of  “A. Kyriakou “ Childrens Hospital, Athens
2005-2007: Clinical attendance in Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, “Aghia Sofia” Childrens Hospital, Athens (on educational leave from Helena Hospital)
4/1998 - 7/1998  Attendance in Fetal Echocardiography, Pediatric Cardiology Department of Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, England (on educational leave from Helena Hospital)
1997-1998: Clinical attendance in Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, “Aghia Sofia” Childrens Hospital, Athens (on educational leave from Helena Hospital)
1996-2010: Senior Registrar in Cardiology, Helena Venizelou -General and Maternity Hospital, Athens (in charge  of Paediatric Cardiology Outpatient  Clinic, Fetal Echocardiography Clinic and NICU)
1995-1996: Senior Registrar in Cardiology, Department of Cardiology HalkidaGeneral Hospital, Halkida
1994-1995: Research fellow in stress echocardiography, University Cardiology Department (Ippokration Hospital), Athens 
1/5/93 - 1/7/94:  Registered Medical staff,   Cardiology Department, Central Hospital of Luxembourg
EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
2000, 2004, 2005 : Participation as tutor in courses of  Vocational Training for trainees in Gynecology and Pediatrics

1994-1996 : Training of Undergraduate students and Cardiology trainees in Echocardiography

Participation in the Educational Program for the Internal Medicine Section of Helena Venizelou Hospital 
1984-1987: Teacher in Vocational Education ( for Lab Technicians of Pathology Departments)
CLINICAL AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Pediatric Echocardiology
Perinatal Medicine
Embryocardiology
Professional Society Memberships

1. Hellenic Society of Pediatric Cardiology
2. Hellenic Society of Cardiology (Chair of Working Group of CHD and PH)
3. Hellenic Society of  Perinatal Medicine
4. Hellenc society of Neonatology
5. AEPC

Dr. Peter Danias is a US and Greece Board-certified cardiologist, who currently directs the Cardiac MR Department of Hygeia Hospital, a major JCI-accredited private tertiary hospital in Athens Greece. After an initial academic career at Tufts and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Danias is now an adjunct Professor of Medicine at Tufts University Medical School. Dr. Danias’ clinical interest is noninvasive cardiology, nuclear cardiology and cardiac MRI. Dr. Danias has authored more than one hundred peer-reviewed publications and several reviews and book chapters and currently has more than 2700 citations in Pubmed. He has also authored a Cardiovascular MRI educational handbook and has an active role as a cardiac MRI educator.

PERSONAL DATA
Surname           : Eleftheriadis (Eleftheriades)
Name                : Makarios
Nationality       : Greek
Work address  : School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
2nd Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
76 Vas. Sofias Avenue,
11528 Athens, Greece

CURRENT POSITION:
Professor of Obstetrics-Gynecology, Maternal-Fetal and Perinatal Medicine
School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA)
2nd Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, "Aretaieio" Hospital

MEDICAL EDUCATION
Ptychio Iatrikes, School of Medicine. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 1995

POSTGRADUATE QUALIFICATIONS

• Honorary Fellowship (2 years) in Fetal Surgery, Fetal Medicine Research Institute, King’s College Hospital, London, Director: Professor Kypros Nicolaides UK, February 2018
• Diploma in Fetal Medicine, The Fetal Medicine Foundation, Director: Professor Kypros Nicolaides

February 2015

• Fellowship (2 years / NHS Registrar post) in Fetal Medicine, Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine, King’s College Hospital, London, Director: Professor Kypros Nicolaides UK, October 2006
• PhD Thesis in Effect of Oral Contraceptive Treatment on Bone Mass Acquisition in Skeletally Immature Young Female Rats, Athens, Greece, July 2006
• Accredited as a Specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology after written and oral examination, Athens, Greece, September 2004.

TEACHING:

• Undergraduate

Medical students in Obstetrics/Gynecology in the compulsory course of Obstetrics/Gynecology and relative optional compulsory courses (School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

• Postgraduate

Resident doctors in Obstetrics/Gynecology in the 2nd Obstetrics-Gynecology Clinic, "Aretaieio" Hospital

Director and tutor of the Postgraduate Course of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens "MSc in Maternal-Fetal Medicine".
I have supervised 4 Doctoral Theses and 11 Master's Theses.

RESEARCH
I have participated as a principal investigator in both experimental and clinical studies, I have received 10 awards for research papers and I have published in peer reviewed journals.

OTHER
Associate Editor at Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

I have worked on producing clinical guidelines on behalf of the Hellenic Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology

I am a member of the Board of the HELLENIC SOCIETY OF PERIRENTAL MEDICINE "EEPI",  the HELLENIC SOCIETY OF MATERNAL – FETAL MEDICINE and the HELLENIC SOCIETY OF CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY and FETAL ASSESSMENT.

• 1978 – 1984: Σπουδές στην Ιατρική Σχολή Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών.
• 30.11.1984: Πτυχίο Ιατρικής (βαθμός πτυχίου: “Λίαν καλώς”).
• 5.02.1985: Άδεια άσκησης Ιατρικού επαγγέλματος - Μέλος Ιατρικού Συλλόγου Πειραιά.
• 1985 – 1986: Ειδικότητα Παθολογίας στο Γ. Ν. Νοσ/μείο Πρεβέζης.
• 1986 – 1987: Υπηρεσία υπαίθρου στο Αγροτικό Ιατρείο Πλαγιάς Αιτωλοακαρνανίας - μερική απόσπαση σε Κ.Υ. Βόνιτσας και Γ.Ν. Νοσοκομείο Λευκάδας.
• 1987 – 1990: Ειδικότητα Καρδιολογίας στο Γ.Ν.Νοσοκομείο Αθηνών “ΕΛΠΙΣ”.  
• 19.03.1991: Τίτλος ειδικότητας Καρδιολογίας.
• 1991 – 1992: Ελεύθερο επάγγελμα – Καρδιολόγος Κινητής Εντατικής Μονάδας Αμέσου Βοηθείας “Ιατρικού Αθηνών” και  Μονάδας Εντατικής Θεραπείας “Ιατρικού Π. Φαλήρου”.   
• 1992 – 1993: Μετεκπαίδευση στις Καρδιολογικές κλινικές των Νοσοκομείων Hammersmith και Brompton Λονδίνου - εξειδίκευση στη διαθωρακική & διοισοφάγειο υπερηχοκαρδιογραφία ενηλίκων και παίδων.
• 1993 – 1997:
  α. Άμισθη επιστημονική συνεργάτιδα Καρδιολογικής Κλινικής Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών, Π.Γ.Ν.  “ΙΠΠΟΚΡΑΤΕΙΟ”.       
  β. Αμισθη επιστημονική συνεργάτιδα Καρδιολογικής Κλινικής Π.Γ. Ν. Παίδων “Η ΑΓΙΑ ΣΟΦΙΑ”.                                        
  γ. Συνεργάτιδα ιδιωτικών καρδιολογικών διαγνωστικών κέντρων.
• 9.1995-10. 1995: Μετεκπαίδευση στην Παιδοκαρδιολογική Κλινική Νος/μείου
• Freeman, Newcastle upon Tyne, Μ. Βρετανίας – εξειδίκευση στην παιδιατρική και εμβρυική καρδιολογία.
• 1995 – 1997: Συνεργάτιδα Ιδιωτικού Μαιευτηρίου “ΗΡΑ” – υπεύθυνη προγεννητικού ελέγχου συγγενών καρδιοπαθειών.  
• 4.1997-12.2001: Επιμελήτρια Β’ ΕΣΥ (επί θητεία) Καρδιολογικής Κλινικής Π.Γ.Ν. Παίδων “Η ΑΓΙΑ ΣΟΦΙΑ”.
• 4.2000-6. 2000: Εκπαίδευση στο Παιδοκαρδιολογικό Τμήμα του Νοσ/μείου Saint Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center, Ν. Υόρκη, Η.Π.Α. 
• 12.2001 - 2013: Εξωτερική συνεργάτης -υπεύθυνη Τμήματος Παιδιατρικής & Εμβρυικής Καρδιολογίας Μαιευτηρίου “ΙΑΣΩ”.
• 2013-σήμερα: Αναπληρώτρια διευθύντρια  παιδοκαρδιολογικής κλινικής  και υπεύθυνη Τμήματος Εμβρυικής Καρδιολογίας Γενικής Κλινικής ΙΑΣΩ
• 2013-2020: Εξωτερική συνεργάτης ως παιδοκαρδιολόγος και εμβρυοκαρδιολόγος Μαιευτηρίου ΡΕΑ
• 2003-σήμερα:Διατήρηση ιδιωτικού ιατρείου στην Αθήνα, με αντικείμενο την Παιδοκαρδιολογία και Εμβρυική Καρδιολογία.

Dr Sarris is a graduate of Athens College (Athens, Greece), Harvard College Harvard Medical School, and a diplomate of the Harvard - MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. He received training in Internal Medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital, and completed training in General Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiopulmonary Transplantation at Stanford University, mentored by Professors Norman Shumway and D. Craig Miller. A Diplomate of both the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, he has completed a Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Fellowship at Emory University. He served on the faculty at Emory and at the Cleveland Clinic, where he worked with Roger Mee and was in charge of the Program of Pediatric Heart and Lung Transplantation. Returning to his native Athens, he established and directed major Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Units at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, at Iaso Children’s and at Mitera Children’s Hospitals. He has served in leadership positions in major international scientific organizations, including as President of the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA), and as a founding Member of the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. He is Director of the ECHSA Congenital Cardiac Database and a Member of the Global Council Chair of Education for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. He has served for many years as the President of the Hellenic Society of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeons Pediatric Heart Surgery Working Group. He has lectured in major international Congresses and has published extensively in major textbooks and peer-reviewed journals.

Current Position
Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Ioannina

Education

• Medical School, University of Ioannina, through the General Entrance Panhellenic Examinations
  • Obtained a Medical Degree with "Excellent" honors
• Residency in Pediatrics at Beth Israel Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
• Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
• Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology/Imaging: Echocardiography-Magnetic Resonance Imaging, as a full-time Senior Fellow at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA

Academic Career in Greece

• Elected as a Lecturer in Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Ioannina and progressed to the rank of Full Professor

Scientific Interests leading to corresponding publications

• Imaging of congenital heart diseases
• Fetal cardiology
• Magnetic resonance imaging of congenital heart diseases
• Congenital heart diseases in adults - Pulmonary hypertension
• Study of pulmonary hypertension, arrhythmias, in animal models
• Preventive cardiology in children and adolescents
• Methodology for optimal screening of athletes
• Lipid metabolism disorders
• Involvement in Preventive Pediatric Cardiology
  • Establishment of a specialized Clinic for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Risk in Children and Adolescents, in collaboration with the First Department of Internal Medicine
  • Development of a vascular lab with the application of methods to specific populations, such as children with dyslipidemia, rheumatic diseases, and other conditions
  • Protocol for recording patients with familial hypercholesterolemia in Northwestern Greece
  • Study of gene analysis in familial hypercholesterolemia in Northwestern Greece