Current Environment: Production

Medical Services

Specialties

Programs & Services

Languages

  • English

Education

Undergraduate School

Boston University

1988, Boston, MA

Medical School

University of Connecticut School of Medicine

1992, Storrs, CT

Internship

Floating Hospital for Infants & Children

1993, Boston, MA

Residency

Floating Hospital for Infants & Children

1995, Boston, MA

Fellowship

Babies & Children’s Hospital of NY/Columbia Presbyterian Hospital

Boston Children's Hospital

1999, Boston, MA

Certifications

  • American Board of Pediatrics (Cardiology)

Professional History

I have been on staff as a member of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Division since I finished my fellowship training in 1999.  I see both local and international pediatric patients with arrhythmias, and care for patients with pacemakers/defibrillators as well.  I see patients with a wide variety of common complaints, including chest pain, palpitations, and fainting referred from local pediatricians.  My clinics are located in Boston and at the Waltham satellite facility.  While once interested in mouse models of inherited arrhythmias, I am now focused solely on clinical practice.

Publications

  1. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Repeated Ketamine Administration for Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Focus (Am Psychiatr Publ). 2023 Jul; 21(3):296-305. View Abstract

  2. Whole blood transcriptional signatures associated with rapid antidepressant response to ketamine in patients with treatment resistant depression. Transl Psychiatry. 2022 01 10; 12(1):12. View Abstract

  3. Pacemaker use for the treatment of reflex-mediated syncope: 40-year experience at a single paediatric institution. Cardiol Young. 2021 Oct 28; 1-6. View Abstract

  4. Impact of the KCNQ2/3 Channel Opener Ezogabine on Reward Circuit Activity and Clinical Symptoms in Depression: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial. Am J Psychiatry. 2021 05 01; 178(5):437-446. View Abstract

  5. Role of nitric oxide signaling in the antidepressant mechanism of action of ketamine: A randomized controlled trial. J Psychopharmacol. 2021 02; 35(2):124-127. View Abstract

  6. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Repeated Ketamine Administration for Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Am J Psychiatry. 2021 02 01; 178(2):193-202. View Abstract

  7. Mount Sinai's Center for Stress, Resilience and Personal Growth as a model for responding to the impact of COVID-19 on health care workers. Psychiatry Res. 2020 11; 293:113426. View Abstract

  8. Adverse event rate during inpatient sotalol initiation for the management of supraventricular and ventricular tachycardia in the pediatric and young adult population. Heart Rhythm. 2020 06; 17(6):984-990. View Abstract

  9. The Real-World Utility of the LINQ Implantable Loop Recorder in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Patients. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2019 02; 5(2):245-251. View Abstract

  10. Utility of incomplete right bundle branch block as an isolated ECG finding in children undergoing initial cardiac evaluation. Congenit Heart Dis. 2018 May; 13(3):419-427. View Abstract

  11. Cardiac Events During Competitive, Recreational, and Daily Activities in Children and Adolescents With Long QT Syndrome. J Am Heart Assoc. 2017 Sep 21; 6(9). View Abstract

  12. Genetics of impulsive behaviour. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2013; 368(1615):20120380. View Abstract

  13. Multiple accessory pathways in the young: the impact of structural heart disease. Am Heart J. 2013 Jan; 165(1):87-92. View Abstract

  14. Discovery and management of diaphragmatic hernia related to abandoned epicardial pacemaker wires in a pregnant woman with {S,L,L} transposition of the great arteries. Congenit Heart Dis. 2012 Mar-Apr; 7(2):183-8. View Abstract

  15. Tryptophan-hydroxylase 2 haplotype association with borderline personality disorder and aggression in a sample of patients with personality disorders and healthy controls. J Psychiatr Res. 2010 Nov; 44(15):1075-81. View Abstract

  16. Ascending aortic dilation in patients with congenital complete heart block. Heart Rhythm. 2008 Dec; 5(12):1704-8. View Abstract

  17. Pulmonary position cryopreserved homografts: durability in pediatric Ross and non-Ross patients. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2005 Aug; 130(2):282-6. View Abstract

  18. Advances in pediatric electrophysiology. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2004 Oct; 16(5):494-9. View Abstract

  19. Modification to the Fontan procedure for the prophylaxis of intra-atrial reentrant tachycardia: short-term results of a prospective randomized blinded trial. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2004 Mar; 127(3):721-9. View Abstract

  20. Implications of implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy in congenital heart disease and pediatrics. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2004 Jan; 15(1):72-6. View Abstract

  21. The use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in pediatric patients awaiting heart transplantation. J Card Fail. 2003 Oct; 9(5):375-9. View Abstract

  22. Influence of patient factors and ablative technologies on outcomes of radiofrequency ablation of intra-atrial re-entrant tachycardia in patients with congenital heart disease. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2002 Jun 05; 39(11):1827-35. View Abstract

  23. Molecular biological and genetic approaches to the evaluation of inherited electrophysiologic disorders. Drugs Today (Barc). 2002 May; 38(5):351-64. View Abstract

  24. Minimally invasive cardioverter defibrillator implantation for children: an animal model and pediatric case report. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2001 Dec; 24(12):1789-94. View Abstract

  25. Supraventricular arrhythmias in children and young adults with implantable cardioverter defibrillators. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2001 Oct; 12(10):1097-101. View Abstract

  26. Electroanatomic mapping of entrained and exit zones in patients with repaired congenital heart disease and intra-atrial reentrant tachycardia. Circulation. 2001 Apr 24; 103(16):2060-5. View Abstract

  27. Estimation of atrial response to entrainment pacing using electrograms recorded from remote sites. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2000 Nov; 11(11):1215-22. View Abstract

  28. A targeted disruption in connexin40 leads to distinct atrioventricular conduction defects. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2000 Oct; 4(3):459-67. View Abstract

  29. Maturational atrioventricular nodal physiology in the mouse. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2000 May; 11(5):557-64. View Abstract

  30. Focal ablation of chaotic atrial rhythm in an infant with cardiomyopathy. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2000 May; 11(5):577-81. View Abstract

  31. QT dispersion in alpha-myosin heavy-chain familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mice. Pediatr Res. 1999 May; 45(5 Pt 1):643-7. View Abstract

  32. Cardiac pacing in children. Curr Opin Cardiol. 1998 Jan; 13(1):48-55. View Abstract

  33. Excessive anaerobic metabolism during exercise after repair of aortic coarctation. J Pediatr. 1997 Aug; 131(2):210-4. View Abstract

I knew that I wanted to study medicine since I was a young teenager, when my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.

The science of medicine fascinated me; but even more than that, the opportunity to care for patients and impact their lives seemed a privilege. I particularly love pediatrics, since I get to watch children grow, and have been practicing just long enough that some children I cared for as infants are about to go off to college! I am blessed with three children of my own, who teach me more about pediatrics than anyone.

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