Chitra Ravishankar, MD, MBBS

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Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending covering "The Infant Single Ventricle Management and Monitoring Program", The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending in Pediatric Cardiology (including heart failure/transplant), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Cardiology consultation service in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Cardiology lead for Global Patient Services, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending in Pediatric Cardiology for the Lymphatic service, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Medical Director of the Cardiology Consult Service, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Associate Chief, Division of Cardiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics

Contact information
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Division of Cardiology
3401 Civic Center Blvd.
Suite 8NW90 - Main Bldg.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 267-425-6116
Fax: 215-590-5825
Education:
MBBS
University of Bombay, India, 1989.
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Selected Publications

Ravishankar C: Editorial: The interstage period after Stage II is just as “risky” as the traditional interstage period in HLHS.(accepted for publication). JACC Advances 2024.

Rachel J. Shustak, MD MSCE; Jennifer Faerber, PhD; Alyson Stagg, CRNP; Chitra Ravishankar, MD; Laura Mercer‐Rosa, MD, MSCE; Therese M. Giglia, MD; Monique M. Gardner, MD: COVID-19 Infections and Interstage Patients (Poster). World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery August 2023.

Therese M. Giglia, MD; Rachel A. Keashen, CRNP; Whitney Petrosa, MSN, CPNP-AC Jacquelyn Sager, MSN, CRNP; Bhavya S. Doshi, MD; Nina R. Griffonetti; Michele P. Lambert, MD, MSTR; Jarrett Linder, MD, MS; Xianqun Luan; Karen Murphy, RN, BSN; Shobha S. Natarajan, MD; Matthew J. O’Connor, MD; Chitra Ravishankar, MD; Benjamin J. Samelson-Jones, MD, PhD; Kelly L. Veneziale, RN, BSN; Jamie Weller, MD; Hilary B. Whitworth, MD, MSCE; Kyle Winser; Char Witmer, MD, MSCE; Leslie J. Raffini, MD, MSCE: Novel Multidisciplinary Program Correlates With Reduction In Thrombosis Rate In Inpatients with Pediatric Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease (Oral presentation). World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery 2023 August 2023.

Stagg A, Giglia TM, Gardner MM, Shustak RJ, Natarajan SS, Hehir DA, Szwast AL, Rome JJ, Ravishankar C, Preminger TJ: Feasibility of Digital Stethoscopes in Telecardiology Visits for Interstage Monitoring in Infants with Palliated Congenital Heart Disease. Pediatr Cardiol Page: 1-8, June 2023.

O'Byrne ML, Song L, Huang J, Lemley B, Goldberg D, Gardner MM, Ravishankar C, Rome JJ, Glatz AC. : Attributable mortality benefit of digoxin treatment in hypoplastic left heart syndrome after the Norwood operation: An instrumental variable-based analysis using data from the Pediatric Health Information Systems Database. Am Heart J. 263: 35-45, May 2023.

Shustak RJ, Faerber JA, Stagg A, Hehir DA, Natarajan SS, Preminger TJ, Szwast A, Rome JJ, Giglia TM, Ravishankar C, Mercer-Rosa L, Gardner MM: Association of Home Monitoring and Unanticipated Interstage Readmissions in Infants With Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. J Am Heart Assoc 12: e025686, April 2023.

Jacobwitz AM, Favilla E, Patel A, Giglia TM, Tiang K, Ravishankar C, Gaynor JW, Licht DJ, McGuire JL, Beslow LA. : Neurologic Complications of Infective Endocarditis in Children. Cardiol Young 33(3): 463-472. March 2023.

Stagg A, Giglia TM, Gardner M, Offit BF, Fuller KM, Natarajan SS, Hehir DA, Szwast AL, Rome JJ, Ravishankar C, Laskin BL, Preminger TJ.: Initial Experience with Telemedicine for Interstage Monitoring in Infants with Palliated Congenital Heart Disease. Pediatr Cardiol 44(1): 196-203, January 2023.

C Goldberg, F Trachtenberg, JW Gaynor, W Mahle, C Ravishankar, SM Schwartz, J Cnota, R Ohye, R Gongwer, M Taylor, S Paridon, P Frommelt, K Afton, A Atz, K Burns, J Detterich, K Hill, A Cabrera, A Lewis, C Pizarro, A Shah, B Sharma, and J Newburger: Longitudinal follow-up of children with HLHS and association between Norwood shunt type and long-term outcomes: The Single Ventricle Reconstruction III Study (accepted for publication). Circulation 2023.

Sullivan E, Irving SY, Srinivasan V, Ravishankar C: Nutrition in cardiac patients. ASPEN Pediatric and Neonatal Nutrition Support Handbook, Third Edition 2023.

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