Cardiology

Michael J. Silka, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Head, Division of Cardiology
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Presentations:

  • Athletic Conditioning and Training in the Child and Adolescent
  • Cardiovascular Conditioning in the Child and Adolescent: Does it Work?
  • Cardiovascular Evaluation of the Young Athlete
  • ECG Interpretation in Pediatric Patients
  • Evaulaiton of Common Office Problems: Chest Pain and Palpitations
  • Implantable Defibrillators in Young Patients
  • PaceMakers in Young Patients
  • Sudden Death Following Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease
  • Syncope - What's New?


Ruben Acherman, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Division of Cardiology
Director, Fetal Cardiology Service
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles


Presentations:

  • Congenital Heart Disease - An Overview (2 hours)
  • Echocardiographic Evaluation in the NICU patient without Congenital Heart Disease
  • Evaluation of Heart Murmurs in the Normal Nursery
  • Fetal Cardiology - General Aspects
  • Systemic-Pulmonary Collaterals in the Premature Infant in the NICU
  • Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease


Arno R. Hohn, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Division of Cardiology
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Presentations:

  • Approach to Hypertension in the Young
  • Chest Pain in Children
  • Cholesterol and Obesity
  • Current Concepts on Acquired Heart Disease
  • ECG Made Easy
  • Heart Murmurs in Children
  • Palpitations, Syncope and Sudden Death: Who's at Risk?
  • Using the Stethoscope: Sound Bytes for Cardiac Diagnosis
  • What Pediatricians Need to Know About Cholesterol Screening and Blood Pressure


Alan B. Lewis, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Division of Cardiology
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
President, University Childrens Medical Group

Presentations:

  • Cardiomyopathies in Children
  • Cholesterol Screening and Management
  • New Approaches to the Treatment of Heart Failure
  • Practice Management in the 21st Century: Part I
  • Practice Management in the 21st Century: Part II
  • Review of Common Congenital Heart Defects


Leonard M. Linde, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Division of Cardiology
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Presentations:

  • Acute Rheumatic Fever
  • Bacterial Endocarditis
  • Bedside Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease
  • Chest Pain in Children
  • Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult
  • Errors in Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Disease in Children
  • Heart Disease in the Newborn
  • Heart Murmurs in Children
  • Infective Endocarditis in the New Millenium
  • Kawasaki Disease
  • Partial Left Ventriculectomy - Batista Operation
  • Psychological Aspects of Heart Diseases in Children and Their Parents
  • Sudden Death in Pediatrics (Cardiac Causes)
  • Syncope and Sudden Death
  • The Prevention of Heart Disease in Children
  • Transitory Benign Chest Wall Pain in Children, Adolescents & Young Adults


Robert E. Stanton, M.D.
Emeritus Professor of Clinical Cardiology
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Senior Attending Cardiologist
Division of Cardiology
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Presentations:

  • Acute Rheumatic Fever
  • Athletes and Arrhythmia
  • Chest Pain in Children
  • Congenital Heart Disease - The Young Adult
  • Long QT Syndrome
  • Neonatal Arrhythmias
  • Pediatric/Neonatal Arrhythmias
  • Supraventricular Tachycardia in Pediatrics
  • Syncope


Jacqueline R. Szmuszkovicz, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Division of Cardiology
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Presentations:

  • Pediatric Heart Transplantation
  • Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (and the role of Prostacyclin and lung transplant in the management of PPH)


Masato Takahashi, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Division of Cardiology
Medical Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Presentations:

  • Acute Rheumatic Fever - Changing Epidemiology
  • Athletes and the Heart - What Pediatricians Should Know
  • Cyanosis in the Newborn
  • Evaluating Murmurs in Children
  • Kawasaki Disease
  • Kawasaki Disease - An Update on Management


Pierre Wong, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Director, Echocardiography
Division of Cardiology
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Presentations:

  • Cyanosis: Diagnosis and Management
  • Echocardiography for Intensivists
  • Pediatric Echocardiography in the 1990s
  • Pediatric Transesophageal Echocardiography
  • Uses & Appropriate Application of Echocardiograms
  • What the Echocardiogram Can Tell You About Your Pediatric Patients


John C. Wood, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Division of Cardiology
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Presentations:

  • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Imaging
  • Role of MRI in Congenital Heart Disease