Team

John J. Nigro, M.D.,
Helen and Will Webster Foundation Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery; Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiac Transplant, and Co-Director, Rady Children’s Heart Institute; Clinical Professor of Surgery, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Congenital Heart Surgery, Heart Transplantation

Srujan Ganta, M.D.
Specialty Interests: Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Heart and Lung Transplantation, Coronary Artery Surgery, Valve Surgery, Adult Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Adult Cardiac Surgery, Electrophysiology/Pacemakers

John Vossler, M.D.
Specialty Interests: Congenital Heart Surgery, Heart Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Adult Congenital Heart Surgery

Cardiology

Adel Younoszai, M.D., Chief, Division of Cardiology, and Co-Director, Rady Children’s Heart Institute; Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Echocardiography, Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease

Christopher Davis, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Exercise Laboratory; Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Coronary Artery Anomalies, General Cardiology

Harjot Bassi, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Cardiac and Cardiothoracic Intensive Care

Matthew Bock, M.D., Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Heart Failure, Heart Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Cardiomyopathy, Cardio-Oncology, Pulmonary Hypertension, Congenital Heart Disease

Alejandro Borquez, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, UC San Diego
Specialty Interests:  Cardiac Rhythm Disturbances, Advanced Monitoring & Diagnostic Techniques, Antiarrhythmic Medications, Catheter-Based Therapies for Arrhythmias, Heritable Arrhythmia Syndromes, Rhythm Disturbances, Pacemaker and ICD Implantation

Jane Burns, M.D., Director, Kawasaki Disease Program; Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Kawasaki Disease

Peter Chau, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty Interests: Cardiomyopathy, Heart Failure, Heart Transplantation, Pulmonary Hypertension

Thomas Do, M.D., M.S., Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Cardiac Intensive Care

Kirsten Dummer, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Fetal Cardiology, Cardiac Imaging, General Cardiology

Howaida El-Said, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory; Co-director, Adult Congenital Heart Programs, UC San Diego; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Catheterization and Interventional Cardiology, Adult Congenital Heart Disease, General Cardiology

Brian Fagan, M.D., Director, Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Program; Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: General Cardiology, Echocardiography, Cardiac Catheterization, Exercise Physiology, Neurodevelopmental Outcomes, Ebstein’s Anomaly of the Tricuspid Valve.

Ian (Fraser) Golding, M.D., Director of Echocardiography; Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Fetal Cardiology, Cardiac Imaging, General Cardiology

Juliana Gomez-Arostegui, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Physician of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Inpatient and General Cardiology Care, Delivery of Care

Brent Gordon, M.D., Associate Physician Diplomate, UC San Diego
Specialty Interests: Novel Transcatheter Device Therapies, Interventional Cardiac MRI, Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Paul Grossfeld, M.D., Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Cardiovascular Genetics, General Cardiology

Aamisha Gupta, M.D., Associate Program Director of Cardiology Fellowship, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Acute Cardiac Care, General Cardiology

Jessica Haley, M.D., Director, Preventive Cardiology, Director Home Monitoring Program; Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Exercise Stress Testing, Preventive Cardiology, General Cardiology, Interstage Home Monitoring Program

Sanjeet Hegde, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Director, Cardiac MRI; Co-Director of Research, Heart Institute; Program Director, 3D Innovations Lab; Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Cardiac Imaging, General Cardiology

Henri Justino, M.D., Associate Physician Diplomate, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Catheterization and Interventional Cardiology, General Cardiology

Rachel McCandless, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Fetal Cardiology, Cardiac Imaging

Dana Mueller, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Cardiac Intensive Care

Hari Narayan, M.D., M.S.C.E., Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Cardiac Imaging, General Cardiology

Beth Printz, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Cardiac Imaging, General Cardiology

Aparna Rao, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Pulmonary Hypertension

Rohit Rao, M.D., M.B.A., Medical Director, Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, Pulmonary Hypertension Program and Project Adam; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Cardiac Intensive Care, Pulmonary Hypertension

Serena Sah, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Cardiac Imaging, General Cardiology

Eleanor Lehnert Schuchardt, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Cardiac Imaging, Fetal Cardiology, General Cardiology

Jose Sepulveda, M.D., Director, Single Ventricle Program, Co-Director, ACHD Programs; Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Adult Congenital Heart Disease, General Cardiology

Jesse Stringer, M.D., Assistant Clinical Assistant Professor, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Cardiac Intensive Care

Heather Sun, M.D., Director, Fetal Cardiology; Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Fetal Cardiology, Cardiac Imaging, General Cardiology

Adriana Tremoulet, M.D., Associate Director, Kawasaki Disease Program; Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Kawasaki Disease

Gabrielle Vaughn, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Heart failure, Cardiomyopathy, Heart Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support

Shilpa Vellore Govardhan, M.D., Associate Physician Diplomate
Specialty interests: Intensive Care

David Werho, M.D., Director of Cardiology Fellowship Program; Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Cardiac Intensive Care

Matthew Williams, M.D., Director, Cardiac Pacing; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego
Specialty interests: Electrophysiology, General Cardiology