Cardiology services at Children’s National cover the whole spectrum of care, from congenital to acquired disease and from before a child is even born through adulthood. Learn more about our cardiology program in this video.
Our team of internationally respected pediatric cardiologists provides care for complex to common heart conditions. Our patients range in age from babies in the womb to young adults with congenital heart defects.
Our entire team of pediatric specialists, who are available for consultation with your child’s heart team 24/7, provide experience and expertise to shepherd you and your family from diagnosis through treatment. We then coordinate follow-up care for your child as long as he or she needs.
Features of our program include:
New and current Children's National patients can now schedule a cardiology appointment online through the MyChildrensNationalPortal. Learn more information about the patient portal and how to sign up.
Children's National has been recognized with the Hospital of the Year award for efforts to integrate peer support and education into patient care.
We offer the full range of heart care for your child. Learn more about our services:
Our team of cardiac interventionists performs more than 600 procedures annually. Our doctors possess special expertise with the use of intravascular stents in the treatment of severe pulmonary artery stenosis and other blood vessel abnormalities. We also offer minimally invasive closure of some types of congenital heart disease with outstanding outcomes and quick recovery without the need for surgery. Learn more about our Cardiac Catheterization Lab.
We offer advanced imaging techniques to obtain highly detailed pictures of your child’s heart structure and function:
Our expert pediatric electrophysiologists provide comprehensive heart rhythm management of arrhythmias and syncope in children. We offer the latest and safest technologies, including cryoablation therapy, and 3-D mapping without X-ray radiation. Learn more about our electrophysiology program.
Through this innovative program, the unborn child is cared for as a separate and individual patient. Comprehensive care begins in utero and is coordinated in partnership with referring maternal prenatal pediatrics specialists and obstetricians with many subspecialties, including cardiology, cardiac surgery, genetics, and radiology. A unique feature of the program is while our team cares for the prenatal heart, we monitor brain function and other aspects of prenatal development to ensure the best outcomes. Learn more about the Prenatal Cardiology Program.
This multidisciplinary program (the combination of different specialists) is working to improve the diets and lifestyles of our patients to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. These risk factors include abnormal cholesterol, hypertension, increased weight, and other adverse lifestyle choices, such as lack of exercise and tobacco use. Learn more about the Preventive Cardiology Program.
In order to ensure that our patients have appropriate heart care as adults, we established the Washington Adult Congenital Heart (WACH) program, a collaborative care partnership with MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
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Before Penelope was even born, she had a team of Children's specialists ready with a treatment plan for her heart defect.
Charles Berul Division Chief, CardiologyCo-Director, Children’s National Heart Institute
John Berger III Medical Director, Pulmonary Hypertension ProgramMedical Director, Cardiac ECMO
Russell Cross Medical Director, Heart and Kidney UnitMedical Director, Inpatient CardiologyDirector, Cardiac MRIAdvanced Imaging Cardiologist
Mary Donofrio Medical Director, Prenatal Cardiology ProgramCo-Director, Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Program Advanced Imaging Cardiologist
Lowell Frank Director, Cardiology Fellowship Training Program Advanced Imaging Cardiologist
Anitha John Medical Director, Washington Adult Congenital Heart Program
Joshua Kanter Medical Director, Interventional Cardiology
Gerard Martin Cardiac Ambassador to Global ServicesCardiologist
Jeffrey Moak Director, Electrophysiology Program Electrophysiologist
Craig Sable Associate Division Chief, CardiologyDirector, Echocardiography
Jeffrey Becker Cardiologist
Kristin Burns Cardiologist
Sarah Clauss Advanced Imaging Cardiologist
Susan Cummings Advanced Imaging Cardiologist
Niti Dham Director, Cardio-Oncology ProgramAdvanced Imaging Cardiologist Advanced Cardiac Therapies and Heart Transplant Cardiologist
Robin Doroshow Cardiologist
Ashraf Harahsheh Director, Quality Outcomes in CardiologyMedical Unit Director, Northern Virginia and FredericksburgDirector, Cardiology Resident EducationCardiologist
Thomas Hougen Cardiologist
Seiji Ito Cardiologist
Jonathan Kaltman Electrophysiologist
Sairah Khan Cardiologist
Anita Krishnan Associate Director, EchocardiographyAdvanced Imaging Cardiologist
Linda Leatherbury Cardiologist
Yue-Hin Loke Advanced Imaging Cardiologist
Jai Nahar Cardiologist
Laura Olivieri Advanced Imaging Cardiologist
Vasum Peiris Cardiologist
Elizabeth Sherwin Electrophysiologist Cardiologist
Christopher Spurney Associate Director, Cardiology Fellowship Training Program Cardiologist
Gil Wernovsky Cardiac Critical Care Specialist
Gregory Yurasek Cardiac Critical Care Specialist
Shiela Bostelman Nurse Practitioner
Kathleen Reid Nurse Practitioner
Rachel Steury Nurse Practitioner
Kaushalendra Amatya Psychologist
Kristina Barbera Nurse Practitioner
Ileen Cronin Nurse Practitioner
Shriprasad Deshpande Director, Advanced Cardiac Therapies and Heart Transplant Program
Tacy Downing Interventional Cardiologist
Mary Falterman Cardiologist
Suma Goudar Prenatal Cardiologist
Ian Hovis Cardiologist
Stephanie Lacey Advanced Imaging Cardiologist
Alejandro Lopez-Magallon Medical Director, TelemedicineCardiac Critical Care Specialist