The section of Pediatric Cardiology supports our patient population on the Children’s Hospital campus and throughout the state through our robust outreach program which includes outpatient clinics with diagnostic testing. We currently have specialists in the areas of fetal cardiology, general pediatric cardiology, advanced imaging, interventional catheterization, noninvasive and invasive electrophysiology, adult congenital heart disease, and preventative cardiology.
Jai Udassi,
MD, FAAP, FAHA, FACC
West Virginia University
Position
Director-Children's Heart Center, Medical Director-Pediatric Cardiovascular Services, Pediatrics
WVU’s pediatric heart program has an outstanding reputation. WVU is a member of the Pediatric Cardiac Care Quality Assurance Consortium and is the referral center for West Virginia and parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. WVU’s pediatric heart specialists perform about 250 cardiothoracic procedures, 100 cardiac catheterizations, and 3000 ultrasound examinations a year. Pediatric cardiology outreach clinics are held in six cities – Beckley, Huntington, Lewisburg, Martinsburg, Parkersburg, and Wheeling.
The Children’s Preventive Cardiology Clinic provides consultative services for children who have severe dyslipidemia and their parents. The multidisciplinary clinic team includes pediatric cardiologists, nutrition counselors, exercise physiologists, and genetic counselors. Please see this link for maps of locations for CARDIAC project.
Separate pacemaker and arrhythmia clinics are held for pediatric patients.
Urgent patients will be seen within 48 hours. Emergency patients are seen immediately.
Division Support Staff:
Ashley Watson, Division Manager, Children's Heart Center