Cardiology Research |Overview
Boston Children's is a world leader in opening new avenues of "translational research," bringing laboratory advances to the bedside and doctor's office as soon as possible. All senior medical staff members of the Department of Cardiology participate in clinical research activities, and many do laboratory research as well.
Learn more about basic and translational cardiovascularresearch.
Researchers and their focus areas:
- Elizabeth Blume, MD:heart transplantation
- Roger Breitbart, MD:pediatric cardiology, cardiovascular genetics
- Steven Colan, MD:ventricular function and cardiomyopathy
- Kevin Daly, MD:cardiac allograft vasculopathy
- Pierre E. Dupont, PhD:robotic instruments and imaging technology, congenital heart defects, fetal and pediatric heart
- Amy E. Roberts, MD:cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome, cardiomyopathy, cardiovascular genetics, hypoplastic left heart
- Felix Engel, PhD:molecular cardiology and regeneration
- Idith Haber, PhD:cardiac MRI
- Kathy Jenkins, MD, MPH:device clinical trials
- Ronald Lacro, MD:noninvasive cardiology
- Michael Landzberg, MD:adult congenital heart defects
- Jane Newburger, MD, MPH:Kawasaki disease
- Andrew Powell, MD:cardiac MRI
- William T. Pu, MD:heart development
- Jonathan Rhodes, MD:exercise physiology
- Leslie B. Smoot, MD:cardiovascular genetics
- Ravi Thiagarajan, MD:cardiac ICU
- John Triedman, MD:arrhythmias
- Wayne Tworetzky, MD:noninvasive cardiology
- Da-Zhi Wang, PhD:transcriptional and epigenetic control of mammalian cardiovascular development and function