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Cardiac Center, Delaware Valley

Helping Kids With Heart Conditions Live Longer, and Better

Nemours cardiac research in Delaware Valley spans the range of cardiovascular health. We’re in the lab finding solutions to the most pressing issues affecting children’s hearts. We work to further our understanding of heart disease and how best to detect, treat and prevent it. What we learn strengthens the care we give.

Investigators in our Cardiovascular Research and Innovation Program partner within — and beyond — our walls.

We share research ideas and work with other academic centers and industry leaders to explore treatments, design devices and develop procedures to improve the health and quality of life for kids with heart disease. We also create programs to improve children’s physical, mental and social development and help build healthy communities.

Cardiac Clinical Research at Nemours

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Our researchers lead clinical trials to study new drugs, treatments, devices and techniques. We also contribute to national registries and collaboratives. Some of these include the Pediatric Heart Network, which is funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Fetal Heart Society, Society of Pediatric Echocardiography, Cardiac Networks United and the Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society.

These collaborations mean we’re working with researchers across North America to learn more about heart and vascular conditions and to help kids live longer, and better.

At any given time, Nemours is conducting dozens of cardiac clinical trials and registries.

Pediatric Cardiac Research Areas

Nemours actively moves pediatric research forward. Our areas of cardiovascular research include:

  • Congenital Heart Surgery
  • Cardiac Imaging
  • Fetal & Perinatal Cardiology
  • Developmental & Emotional Health
  • Preventive Cardiology
  • Effects of COVID-19 on Children’s Hearts
  • Cardiovascular Genetics
  • Social Determinants of Cardiovascular Disease
  • Quality Improvement

Our research is integrated. We regularly work across our system with the following centers, labs and programs:

Our Research Leadership

  

Christian Pizarro, MD - Chief, Pediatric Heart Surgery - Nemours Cardiac Center in Delaware

Christian Pizarro, MD

Executive Director

Nemours Cardiac Center for Cardiovascular Research and Innovations Program

Srivastava, Shubhika MD, Chief of Pediatric Cardiology, Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware

Shubhika Srivastava, MD

Executive Director

Nemours Cardiac Center for Cardiovascular Research and Innovations Program

Portrait of Carissa M. Baker-Smith, MD MPH MS

Carissa M. Baker-Smith, MD MPH MS

Co-Director

Nemours Cardiac Center for Cardiovascular Research and Innovations Program

Portrait of Erica Sood, PhD

Erica Sood, PhD

Co-Director

Nemours Cardiac Center for Cardiovascular Research and Innovations Program

Cardiac Researchers

Cardiac Research Publications

We share our knowledge and expertise, advancing the science to benefit kids everywhere. As a team, we present our work at scientific meetings and publish an average of 40 to 50 research articles a year in peer-reviewed journals. Find cardiac research publications by researcher, or browse a list of recent publications.