Shobha S Natarajan, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Attending Cardiologist, Echocardiography Laboratory including TEE and CICU teams, The Cardiac Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Cardiologist, The Fetal Heart Program, The Cardiac Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Cardiologist, The Infant Single Ventricle Monitoring Program, The Cardiac Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-Director, The Hypertension Clinic, A Joint Clinical Program between the Cardiac Center and the Division of Nephrology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director, The Vascular Lab for Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk, The Cardiac Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director of Quality Improvement, The Cardiac Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Cardiologist, CICU Consult Service, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-Director, The Preventive Cardiovascular Program, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Division of Cardiology
34th Street & Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Division of Cardiology
34th Street & Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-2200
Fax: 215-590-4620
Fax: 215-590-4620
Email:
natarajans@chop.edu
natarajans@chop.edu
Education:
BA (History)
Haverford College, 1990.
Post-Bacc (Pre-Medical)
Bryn Mawr College, 1994.
MD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1999.
Permanent linkBA (History)
Haverford College, 1990.
Post-Bacc (Pre-Medical)
Bryn Mawr College, 1994.
MD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1999.
Selected Publications
Shobha S Natarajan 1 , Kasey Chaszczewski 2 , Chris Penney 3 , Steve Ampah 3 , Douglas Ryba 3 , Andrea T Kennedy 3 , Robert Olsen 3 , Shubhika Srivastava 4 , Matthew J Campbell 4 , Mya Carney 4 , Carol Prospero 4 , Lisa Elliott 4 , Carlie Brewer 5 , Michael DiMaria 5 , Nitin Madan 6 , Seda Tierney 7 , Meaghan Beattie 7 , Ritu Sachdeva 8 , Joan Lipinski 9 , Kenan W D Stern 10 , Grace Kong 10 , Preeta Dhanantwari 11 , Elena N Kwon 11 , Hari Rajagopal 11 , Carolyn Taylor 12 , Tammy Churchill 12 , Aura A Sanchez Mejia 13 , Deidra Abenlah Ansah 13 , Anitha Parthiban 13 , Hasti Sanandajifar 13 , Sowmya Balasubramanian 14 , David A Parra 15 , Kimberly Crum 15 , Corey Stiver 16 , Aarti H Bhat 17 , Pei-Ni Jone 18 , Stefani Samples 18 , Kathleen Van't Hof 18 , Curt DeGroff 19 , Dalia Lopez-Colon 19 , Meryl S Cohen 3: Diagnostic Accuracy Prior to Congenital Heart Defect Surgery: A Multicenter Collaboration. JACC Adv Feb 2025.Garick D Hill 1 2 , Eunice Hahn 3 4 , Joseph R Block 5 , Alicia H Chaves 6 , Kristopher Cumbermack 7 , Joan Lipinski 8 , Shobha Natarajan 9 , David A Parra 10 , Joshua D Robinson 11 , Brian D Soriano 12 , Michael J Walsh 13 , JangDong Seo 3 , Peter Frommelt 5: Identifying Factors that Influence Pediatric Echo Lab Image Quality: Development and Validation of a New Assessment Tool. Pediatr Cardiol Dec 2024.
Michelle Kaplinski 1 2 , Heather Griffis 3 , Yan Wang 4 , Laura Mercer-Rosa 4 , Anirban Banerjee 4 , Michael D Quartermain 4 , Shobha S Natarajan 4: Left Atrial Size and Strain in Hypertensive Children Compared to Age-, Sex-, and Race/Ethnicity-Matched Controls. Pediatr Cardiol Nov 2024.
Hill G, Hahn E, Block J, Chaves A, Cumbermack K, Lipinski J, Natarajan S, Parra D, Robinson J, Soriano B, Walsh M, Seo J, Frommelt P : Identifying Factors that Influence Pediatric Echo Lab Image Quality: Development and Validation of a New Assessment Tool. American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions, Portland, OR June 2024 Notes: Poster.
Balasubramanian S, Yu S, Behera SK, Bhat AH, Camarda JA, Choueiter NF, Jone P, Lopez L, Natarajan SS, Parra DA, Parthiban A, Sachdeva R, Srivastava S, Tierney ESS: Consensus‐Based Development of a Pediatric Echocardiography Complexity Score: Design, Rationale, and Results of a Quality Improvement Collaborative. Journal of the American Heart Association 5(15): e3476, February 2024.
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. Pediatric Cardiology 44(8): 1702-1709, June 2023.
Pickard SS, Armstrong AK, Balasubramanian S, Buddhe S, Crum K, Kong G, Lang SM, Lee MV, Lopez L, Natarajan SS, Norris MD, Parra DA, Parthiban A, Powell AJ, Priromprintr B, Rogers LS, Sachdeva S, Shah SS, Smith CA, Stern KWD, Xiang Y, Young LT, Sachdeva R: Appropriateness of cardiovascular computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in patients with conotruncal defects. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr. 17(3): 211-219, June 2023.
Helen Stanley MD, Meryl Cohen MD MSEd, Shobha Natarajan MD, Brian White MD PhD: Multi-Modality Imaging in Pre-Surgical Evaluation of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection: Practice Variability and Diagnostic Error. American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions, National Harbor, MD June 2023 Notes: Poster.
Jones AL, Campbell MJ, Abernathy B, Neubert S, Hager A, Collier H, Ramsey EZ, Simon A, Schachtner S, Natarajan S.: Improvement in Palivizumab Administration Prior to Discharge for Hospitalized Infants with Hemodynamically Significant Congenital Heart Disease: A Quality Improvement Initiative. Pediatr Cardiol. Page: doi: 10.1007, May 2023 Notes: epub.
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(8): e025686, April 2023.