Pediatric Cardiology

Our pediatric cardiology team at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health provides diagnosis and management of congenital and acquired heart disease for children of all ages.

Our Betty Irene Moore Children's Heart Center multidisciplinary team includes physicians, clinical nurse specialists, social workers, physical and occupational therapists, and dieticians whose main focus is to provide high quality and comprehensive care for your child.

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford is nationally recognized for its high-quality care in cardiology and heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to our main hospital location in Palo Alto, our network of pediatric cardiologists stretches across the Bay Area and beyond, making it easier for your child to be treated by an experienced doctor while staying closer to home.

Our services and programs include:

• Electrophysiology and arrhythmia: Diagnosis and disease management, electrocardiography, Holter and Event recording, pacemaker management, electrophysiologic study, and trans-catheter ablation of arrhythmia.
• Cardiac imaging: Pediatric echocardiography, fetal echocardiography, transesophageal and intraoperative echocardiography, MRI, CT, and angiography.
• Cardiac catheterization and interventional cardiology: Cardiac catheterization and angiography, interventional procedures (balloon angioplasty, balloon valvuloplasty, coil embolization, trans-catheter stenting, and catheter closure of congenital heart defects), and endomyocardial biopsy.
• Exercise and preventive heart disease: Cardiopulmonary exercise stress testing, evaluation for athletic participation, hypertension evaluation, and hypercholesterolemia evaluation and management.
• Pediatric advanced cardiac therapies (PACT): Cardiomyopathy, heart failure management, heart transplantation, and heart-lung and lung transplantation.
• Pediatric vascular research lab: Identifying patients at risk for atherosclerosis and vascular disease at an early age.
• Wall Center for pulmonary vascular disease: Evaluation and management of pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary vascular disease.
• Marfan syndrome and related aortic disorders: Diagnostic evaluation and individualized therapy for Marfan syndrome and other related heritable disorders of aortic valve.
• Adult congenital heart disease: Care management for patients born with heart defects who grow to be adults and face a range of challenges.