Laura M. Bevilacqua, MD
Associate Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
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Laura M. Bevilacqua, MD
Associate Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Medical 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.
Approach to Care
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.
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.
Publications
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Repeated Ketamine Administration for Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. View Abstract
Whole blood transcriptional signatures associated with rapid antidepressant response to ketamine in patients with treatment resistant depression. View Abstract
Pacemaker use for the treatment of reflex-mediated syncope: 40-year experience at a single paediatric institution. View Abstract
Impact of the KCNQ2/3 Channel Opener Ezogabine on Reward Circuit Activity and Clinical Symptoms in Depression: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial. View Abstract
Role of nitric oxide signaling in the antidepressant mechanism of action of ketamine: A randomized controlled trial. View Abstract
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Repeated Ketamine Administration for Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. View Abstract
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. View Abstract
Adverse event rate during inpatient sotalol initiation for the management of supraventricular and ventricular tachycardia in the pediatric and young adult population. View Abstract
The Real-World Utility of the LINQ Implantable Loop Recorder in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Patients. View Abstract
Utility of incomplete right bundle branch block as an isolated ECG finding in children undergoing initial cardiac evaluation. View Abstract
Cardiac Events During Competitive, Recreational, and Daily Activities in Children and Adolescents With Long QT Syndrome. View Abstract
Genetics of impulsive behaviour. View Abstract
Multiple accessory pathways in the young: the impact of structural heart disease. View Abstract
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. View Abstract
Tryptophan-hydroxylase 2 haplotype association with borderline personality disorder and aggression in a sample of patients with personality disorders and healthy controls. View Abstract
Ascending aortic dilation in patients with congenital complete heart block. View Abstract
Pulmonary position cryopreserved homografts: durability in pediatric Ross and non-Ross patients. View Abstract
Advances in pediatric electrophysiology. View Abstract
Modification to the Fontan procedure for the prophylaxis of intra-atrial reentrant tachycardia: short-term results of a prospective randomized blinded trial. View Abstract
Implications of implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy in congenital heart disease and pediatrics. View Abstract
The use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in pediatric patients awaiting heart transplantation. View Abstract
Influence of patient factors and ablative technologies on outcomes of radiofrequency ablation of intra-atrial re-entrant tachycardia in patients with congenital heart disease. View Abstract
Molecular biological and genetic approaches to the evaluation of inherited electrophysiologic disorders. View Abstract
Minimally invasive cardioverter defibrillator implantation for children: an animal model and pediatric case report. View Abstract
Supraventricular arrhythmias in children and young adults with implantable cardioverter defibrillators. View Abstract
Electroanatomic mapping of entrained and exit zones in patients with repaired congenital heart disease and intra-atrial reentrant tachycardia. View Abstract
Estimation of atrial response to entrainment pacing using electrograms recorded from remote sites. View Abstract
A targeted disruption in connexin40 leads to distinct atrioventricular conduction defects. View Abstract
Maturational atrioventricular nodal physiology in the mouse. View Abstract
Focal ablation of chaotic atrial rhythm in an infant with cardiomyopathy. View Abstract
QT dispersion in alpha-myosin heavy-chain familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mice. View Abstract
Cardiac pacing in children. View Abstract
Excessive anaerobic metabolism during exercise after repair of aortic coarctation. View Abstract