Pediatric Cardiology Research Team | Research | Department of Pediatrics | UC Davis Health

Mohammad Alnoor's research focuses on Fontan physiology optimization to improve the quality and longevity of life for these patients. He is also interested in the development of new devices and innovative procedures to deliver less invasive and more efficient patient care.

Hema Bhargava is a pediatric cardiologist with over 30 years experience in the care of infants, children and adolescents with congenital and acquired pediatric heart disease. She has a special interest in fetal echocardiography.

Daniel Cortez's research focuses on improving diagnosis or disease causing sudden cardiac death as well as in arrhythmia-risk prediction in children and adults using vectorcardiography (3-dimensional EKG), which was the subject of his Ph.D. He also has an interest in leadless pacemakers and in physiologic pacing as a means to prevent and reverse heart failure in patients with pacemakers. He also has an interest in phone-application-based rhythm monitoring.

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Jonathan Dayan's interests include the evaluation and management of all ranges of congenital and acquired heart disease, from the simplest murmur to the most complex anatomic variations. His focuses include pediatric heart failure and cardiomyopathy, single ventricle physiology, cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), and echocardiography, particularly in utero diagnosis of congenital heart disease.

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Ralf Holzer has an extensive academic and research portfolio with more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, over 20 book chapters and numerous scientific abstracts to his name. He has a particular interest in outcomes research, quality improvement, and risk adjustment. Ralf Holzer also holds a Masters Degree in Information Technology.

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Frank Ing's academic and research interests include; clinical trials of devices and stents involving congenital heart disease, outcomes research related to the pediatric cath lab, development of new devices, catheters, and delivery systems, techniques for congenital heart disease interventions; and fetal cardiac interventions.

He has additional interest in working with device companies and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to forward the approval of cardiac devices for pediatric heart patients, and also to educate the next generation of pediatric interventionists.

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Lakshmi Nagaraju is a pediatric cardiologist with special interest in advance echocardiography, fetal echocardiography and pediatric lipid abnormalities.

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Kavitha Pundi's primary research focuses on optimizing long-term surveillance protocols and provision of integrated multidisciplinary care for children and adolescents with single ventricle physiology (i.e. after the Fontan operation) in order to provide seamless transition to adulthood. In addition, Kavitha Pundi has a clinical interest in the diagnosis and management of Pulmonary Hypertension and is also involved in multicenter research studies in collaboration with the Fetal Heart Society.

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Nandita Sharma is a general pediatric cardiologist offering care for children with various congenital heart conditions, other cardiac issues like palpitations, passing out, chest pain.

Sherzana Sunderji’s interest in research focuses on the diagnosis, evaluation and management of congenital and acquired heart disease from the fetus to adult. Due to her additional training in advanced imaging in pediatric cardiology, her research involves non-invasive imaging modalities to investigate the anatomy, physiology and evolution of cardiovascular system, primarily in the developing fetus and neonates.

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Jay Yeh's conducts research in Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease and Fetal Cardiology. His clinical research involves echocardiography as a tool for the diagnosis and evaluation of congenital heart disease, including 3-dimensional imaging, strain or deformation imaging as a quantitative assessment of myocardial function. Jay Yeh's Fetal Cardiology clinical research involves the diagnosis, management, and outcomes with prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defects, including fetal echo parameters in predicting outcomes.

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• PubMed