Shannon Nees, MD

Cardiologist

Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington, DE 19803

Biography

Dr. Shannon Nees is a pediatric cardiologist with training in advanced non-invasive cardiac imaging and cardiovascular genetics. Her clinical interests include cardiovascular genetics, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, fetal cardiology, cardiac MRI and cardiac CT. Her research has focused on the clinical utility and application of genetic testing for patients with congenital heart disease and the application of advanced imaging to improve patient care.

Fellowship

  • Pediatric Cardiology - New York Presbyterian / Columbia Univ Med Ctr, 2018
  • Pediatric Cardiology - New York Presbyterian / Columbia Univ Med Ctr, 2020
  • Research - New York Presbyterian / Columbia Univ Med Ctr, 2019

Internship Residency

  • General Pediatrics - New York Presbyterian / Columbia Univ Med Ctr, 2015

Medical/Dental School

  • MD - Columbia Univ. College of Physicians & Surgeons, 2012

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Pediatrics/Pediatric Cardiology
  • American Board of Pediatrics/General Pediatrics

  • Advanced Imaging
  • Cardiac Mri
  • Cardiovascular Genetics
  • Fetal Echocardiography
  • Pediatric Cardiology

  • Evidence-Based Assessment of Congenital Heart Disease Genes to Enable Returning Results in a Genomic Study; Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine; (2023).

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  • Cyproheptadine and atrioventricular block in a patient with congenital heart disease; Progress in Pediatric Cardiology; (2021).

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  • Likely damaging de novo variants in congenital diaphragmatic hernia patients are associated with worse clinical outcomes.; Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics; (2020).

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  • Targeted Therapy for Pulmonary Hypertension in Premature Infants. ; Children (Basel, Switzerland); (2020).

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  • Genetic Basis of Human Congenital Heart Disease.; Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology; (2020).

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  • The genetics of isolated congenital heart disease; American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics; (2020).

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  • Assessment of Anomalous Coronary Arteries by Imagers and Surgeons: Comparison of Imaging Modalities.; The Annals of thoracic surgery; (2020).

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  • Patients with anomalous aortic origin of the coronary artery remain at risk after surgical repair.; The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery; (2018).

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  • Pulmonary hypertension in patients with 9q34.3 microdeletion-associated Kleefstra syndrome.; American journal of medical genetics. Part A; (2018).

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  • Sildenafil Use in Children with Pulmonary Hypertension.; The Journal of pediatrics; (2018).

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  • Adolescent varicocelectomy: does artery sparing influence recurrence rate and/or catch-up growth?; Andrology; (2013).

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  • Physical exam and ultrasound characteristics of right varicocoeles in adolescents with left varicocoeles.; Andrology; (2013).

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  • Outcomes of vesicoureteral reflux in children with non-neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction treated with dextranomer/hyaluronic acid copolymer (Deflux).; Journal of pediatric urology; (2013).

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  • Mutations in DSTYK and dominant urinary tract malformations.; The New England journal of medicine; (2013).

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  • Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 potentially influences cholesterol uptake in macrophages and reverse cholesterol transport.; FEBS letters; (2013).

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  • Incidence, significance and natural history of persistent retrograde venous flow after varicocelectomy in children and adolescents: correlation with catch-up growth.; The Journal of urology; (2013).

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  • Use of complementary and alternative medicine among children, adolescent, and young adult cancer survivors: a survey study.; Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology; (2013).

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  • Outcomes of targeted treatment for vesicoureteral reflux in children with nonneurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction.; The Journal of urology; (2013).

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  • Copy-number disorders are a common cause of congenital kidney malformations.; American journal of human genetics; (2012).

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  • Intratesticular varicoceles: are they significant?; Journal of pediatric urology; (2012).

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  • Exome sequencing identified MYO1E and NEIL1 as candidate genes for human autosomal recessive steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome.; Kidney international; (2011).

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  • Testicular symmetry and adolescent varicocele--does it need followup?; The Journal of urology; (2011).

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  • Observations on hydroceles following adolescent varicocelectomy.; The Journal of urology; (2011).

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