Children’s Heart Center located in New York City is an alliance between Mount Sinai and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). We are proud to introduce the distinguished team of doctors from our two world renowned pediatric cardiology hospitals.

We dedicate our skills to helping your child.

Children’s Heart Center

Directors

Robert H. Pass, MD, Co-Director, Children’s Heart Center;
Director, Pediatric Electrophysiology

Peter Pastuszko, MD, Co-Director, Children’s Heart Center, Chief, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery; Director, Pediatric Cardiovascular Services, Mount Sinai Health System

Cardiology

Rica Arnon, MD, Director, Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Exercise Physiology Program

Morton Borg, MD, Attending Cardiologist

Jennifer Bragg, MD, Neonatologist, Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program 

Jennifer Cohen, MD, Director of Congenital Cardiac Computed Tomography

David Ezon, MD, Director, Technology and Innovation for Education

Miwa Geiger, MD, Director, Fetal Heart Program

Bruce Gelb, MD, Director, The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute; Gogel Family Chair

Lauren D. Glass, MD, Associate Director, Pediatric Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Program

Barry Love, MD, Director, Congenital Cardiac Catheterization

Kanika Mathur, MD, Attending Cardiologist

Ira Parness, MD, Chief Emeritus, Division of Pediatric Cardiology; Richard J. Golinko Endowed Professorship

Robert H. Pass, MD, Co-Director, Children’s Heart Center;
Director, Pediatric Electrophysiology

Hari Rajagopal, MBBS, Attending Cardiologist

Rajesh Shenoy, MD, Director, Fellowship Program

Kenan Stern, MD, Director, Congenital Cardiac Non-Invasive Imaging

Cardiac Critical Care Medicine

Scott Aydin, MD, Director, Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Iris Mandell, MD, Director, Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team

George Ofori-Amanfo, MD, Chief, Pediatric Critical Care

Howard Seiden, MD, Associate Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology; Director, Cardiac Inpatient Services

Cardiovascular Surgery

Peter Pastuszko, MD, Chief, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery; Director, Pediatric Cardiovascular Services, Mount Sinai Health System

Raghav A. Murthy, MBBS, Assistant Director of the Pediatric Heart Transplantation Program

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Ali N. Zaidi, MD
Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center 

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Fetal Heart

Jack Rychik, MD, Director of the Fetal Heart Program and the Single Ventricle Survivorship Program and Robert and Dolores Harrington Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiology

Anita L. Szwast, MD, Cardiac Center and Fetal Heart Program

Shobha S. Natarajan, MD, Co-director of the Hypertension and Vascular Evaluation (HAVE) Program

Karl Degenhardt, MD, PhD, Cardiac Center and Fetal Heart Program 

Critical Care

Andrew T. Costarino Jr., MD, MSCE, Chief of the Division of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine

Marissa A. Brunetti, MD, Division of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine 

Aaron G. DeWitt, MD, Division of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine

Stacie B. Peddy, MD, Division of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine
 

Joshua J. Blinder, MD, Division of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine 

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Jonathan M. Chen, MD
Jonathan M. Chen, MD, is the Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Co-Director of the Cardiac Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Chen is also the Mortimer J. Buckley Jr. MD Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery.

J. William Gaynor, MD, Cardiac Center and Surgical Director of the Heart Failure and Transplant Program

Stephanie Fuller, MD, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Christopher E. Mascio, MD, Cardiac Center

How to Reach Us

To make an appointment or learn more, you can call us 24-hours a day. To reach Children’s Heart Center, call us at 1-844-733-7692. To reach the Fetal Heart Program, call us at 1-844-692-3382.