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Education & Training

  • Fellowship, Advanced Cardiac Imaging, 2010
    Children's National Medical Center
  • Fellowship, Pediatric Cardiology, 2009
    Children's National Medical Center
  • Residency, Pediatrics, 2006
    New York-Presbyterian Hospital
  • Internship, Pediatrics, 2004
    New York-Presbyterian Hospital
  • MD, 2003
    Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Pediatrics/Pediatric Cardiology
  • American Board of Pediatrics

Awards & Recognition

  • Top Doctors No Va Magazine (2023, 2022, 2021)

National Provider ID: 1528248549


Biography

Lowell Frank, M.D., is an attending in the Division of Cardiology at Children’s National Hospital, Director of the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He earned a bachelor’s degree with distinction and a doctor of medicine from Cornell University. Dr. Frank completed his training in pediatrics at Cornell followed by fellowship training in pediatric cardiology and advanced cardiac imaging at Children’s National.

Dr. Frank has conducted research at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health analyzing ventricular mechanics in models of congenital heart disease. His interests include advanced echocardiographic measures of ventricular function, medical education, and complex congenital heart disease. He has a particular interest in the international adoption of children with complex congenital heart disease and offers pre-adoption case review and counseling. He participates in transthoracic, transesophageal, and three-dimensional echocardiography, as well as inpatient and outpatient care.

Research & Publications

5th World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

(2009) Right ventricular strain parameters correlate with RV ejection fraction and exercise performance in adults with congenital heart disease undergoing MRI

American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions

(2011) Abnormal Cardiac Strain in Children and Young Adults with HIV Acquired in Early Life

American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions

(2010) Early systolic dysfunction in dystrophin deficient mice is associated with significantly decreased radial strain and increased longitudinal strain in the left ventricular anterior wall

American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions

(2008) Insights into ventricular mechanics in the unlooped heart: ventricular twisting and untwisting in a fetal mouse model of right atrial isomerism single ventricle

American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions

(2009) Right ventricular strain in children with sickle cell disease. Journal of American Society Echocardiogram

American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions

(2010) Speckle-tracking echocardiography detects impaired systolic and diastolic myocardial performance in children with septic shock

Complete atrioventricular canal with guarded primum septal defect

(2011) Pediatric Cardiology

Ventricular rotation is independent of cardiac looping a study in mice with situs inversus totalis using speckle-tracking echocardiography

(2010) Journal of American Society Echocardiogram