Meet Your Child's Cardiac Team
Children's Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Team
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Daphne Hsu, MD
Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine |
Your child's pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Daphne Hsu, is one of the nation's leading experts in children's heart failure and heart transplant. Dr. Hsu has treated more than 600 children with heart failure and more than 250 children undergoing heart transplant. Past director of Pediatric Heart Failure at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Hsu brings unique specialized medical skills, decades of experience-and extraordinary commitment-to the care of your child with complex heart disease.
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Jacqueline M. Lamour, MD
Medical School: SUNY- Health Science Center at Brooklyn |
Your child's pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Jacqueline M. Lamour, is one of the country's most experienced specialists in pediatric heart failure, transplant and congenital heart disease. Formerly Associate Director of Pediatric Heart Failure and Transplantation at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Lamour has managed more than 200 children undergoing heart transplant. She has treated 400 children with heart failure.
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Arzellra Walters, NP CCTC
Bachelor of Science, Nursing: University of Rochester, School of Nursing |
Your child's transplant coordinator, Arzellra Walters, is one of the region's most experienced children's heart failure and transplant nurse practitioners. Before her recruitment to CHAM, Ms. Walters was the Pediatric Heart Transplant nurse practitioner at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center. She has worked with hundreds of children with complex heart disease and heart failure and personally coordinated care for more than 100 children undergoing heart transplant.
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Jenny Nova, RN, CCTC Bachelor of Science, Nursing: City University of New York |
Your child's transplant coordinator, Jenny Nova, is one of the region's most experienced children's heart failure and transplant practice nurses. Before her recruitment to CHAM, Ms. Nova was the Pediatric Cardiology Clinic Coordinator at the Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian. She has worked with hundreds of children with complex heart disease and heart failure and personally coordinated care for more than 200 children undergoing heart transplant.
Pediatric Electrophysiology and Interventional Cardiology
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Robert Pass, MD
Medical School: Boston University |
Your child's pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Robert Pass, brings multiple skills to your child's cardiac care. As the New York tri-state area's most experienced pediatric electrophysiologist (EP) he uses sophisticated cardiac ablation techniques to treat your child's arrhythmia. Dr. Pass has performed over 1000 electrophysiology studies and over 800 arrhythmia ablation procedures. Prior to his recruitment to CHAM in 2008, he was the Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology at the Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian and an Attending in the Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. Dr. Pass is also a highly skilled interventional cardiologist has performed over 4000 cardiac catheterization procedures in children and is an expert in the non-surgical catheter-based repair of heart defects and the hybrid procedure
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Christine A. Walsh, MD
Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine |
Your child's pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Christine Walsh, is a leading expert in pediatric abnormal heart rhythms, syncope (fainting), chest pain and children's heart disease. Dr. Walsh uses exercise stress testing, Holter or transtelephonic monitoring, and tilt table testing to determine the cause of your child's symptom. A founding member and Co-Director of The Montefiore-Einstein Center for CardioGenetics, Dr. Walsh helps evaluate, genetically screen and treat families dealing with the tragedy of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) or Sudden Unexpected Death Syndrome (SUDS).
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Nicole Sutton, MD
Medical School: New York University Medical School |
Your child's cardiologist, Dr. Nicole Sutton has special expertise in interventional cardiology. Dr. Sutton is an expert in the hybrid approach to congenital heart disease and has vast experience in all types of diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization.
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Esma Paljevic, NP
Bachelor of Science, Nursing: Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York |
Your child's nurse practioner, Esma Paljevic, is a specialist in caring for children with congenital heart disease, She can explain to you, your child and your family the details about the type of cardiac catheterization procedure being performed and answer any questions you may have. She is also an expert in the genetics of cardiac diseases and is an important member of the Cardiogenetics Team.
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Lynn Nappo, RN
Bachelor of Science, Springfield College, Springfield, MA |
Your child's nurse practioner, Lynn Nappo, is a specialist in caring for children undergoing electrophysiology studies and ablation procedures. She can explain to you, your child and your family the procedures that are being performed and answer any questions you may have about the electrophysiology study, ablation hospitalization or care.
Children's Cardiac Non-Invasive Imaging
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Leo Lopez, MD
Medical School: The University of Pennsylvania |
Your child's pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Leo Lopez, is one of a handful of the nation's most skilled echocardiographers. He performs non-invasive ultrasound studies that provide detailed, real-time images of your child's heart. Since beginning his career in 1994, Dr. Lopez has performed more than 26,000 echo imaging studies. In addition to his busy practice, Dr. Lopez oversees CHAM's non-invasive imaging program that includes transthoracic echocardiography, transesophogeal echocardiography,3-D reconstruction of echocardiograms, fetal echocardiography, cardiac CT and MRI scanning for your child.
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Rajesh Shenoy, MD
Medical School: University of Mumbai, Seth G.S. Medical College, India |
Your child's pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Rajesh Shenoy, is an expert in pediatric echocardiography-a science that employs ultrasound to capture and analyze detailed images of your child's heart. Dr. Shenoy has special skill in precise echo imaging of children, babies-and unborn babies-with congenital heart disease using transthoracic, transesophageal and fetal echocardiography.
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Christine Tracy, MD
Medical School: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons |
Your child's physician, Dr. Christine Tracy, is an expert in pediatric echocardiography-a science that employs ultrasound to capture and analyze detailed images of your child's heart. Dr. Tracy has special skill in precise echo imaging of children, babies-and unborn babies-with congenital heart disease using transthoracic, transesophageal and fetal echocardiography.
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Janice Migniuolo, RN AAS in Nursing, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY |
Your child's cardiology nurse, Janice Migniuolo, is an expert in the nursing care of the child with congenital heart disease. Before her recruitment to CHAM, Ms. Migniuolo was a cardiac intensive care nurse who cared for infants and children with congenital heart disease.
Exercise Physiology
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Myles Schiller, MD
Medical School: The Chicago Medical School |
Your child's pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Myles Schiller, oversees CHAM's pediatric exercise physiology program. Dr. Schiller conducts exercise stress tests using sophisticated sensory equipment to measure your child's heart and metabolic functions.
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Darlene Fountain, RN RN: Englewood School of Nursing
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Your child's cardiology nurse, Darlene Fountain, is an expert in both the nursing care of the child with congenital heart disease and clinical outcomes research in children with heart disease. Before her recruitment to CHAM, Ms. Fountain was a research nurse coordinator for the NIH/NHLBI funded Pediatric Heart Network and she was a senior pediatric cardiac intensive care nurse who cared for infants and children with congenital heart disease.
