Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Sewell, New Jersey, United States
I am an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania. I co-direct the cardiovascular 3-D modeling program at the Cariac Center of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. I have significant experience in performing in vitro and computational modeling and have presented these results at multiple national meetings. I have published the results of extensive computational results simulating exercise in Fontan patients, showing the nonlinear effects of exercise on power loss characteristics of the Fontan pathway, as well as the effect of hemodynamic power loss on exercise performance. I have developed novel MRI methods of quantifying collateral flow and used this method to demonstrate a relationship between collateral flow and Fontan outcomes. We have used this technique to prospectively study the effects of collateral embolization on outcomes. I have developed a pulsatile flow phantom to evaluate different velocity mapping techniques, including investigating the effect of imaging plane angle on velocity mapping techniques, validating flow measurements near stents and validating a novel technique to quantify systemic to pulmonary arterial collateral flow in patients with cavopulmonary connections. I have significant experience and expertise in performing cardiac MRI in patients with congenital heart disease for both clinical and research protocols. I have extensive expertise in real time flow and ventricular volume measurements in single ventricle patients to quantify exercise performance. I also have significant experience in using MRI images to generate accurate 3D models for computational, 3D printed physical models, and 3D virtual models utilizing novel virtual reality platforms. We have successfully used these models to perform in vitro flow experiments on both compliant and rigid models and have presented these techniques and findings at national meetings.
Friday, February 6, 2026
3:59 PM - 4:06 PM
