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

Gaynor JW, Mahle M, Ravishankar C, Goldberg DJ, Nicolson SC, Rychik J.: Reply: Is There an Adaptive Metabolic Potential in High-Performing Fontan? J Am Coll Cardiol. 86(15): e129, Oct 2025.

Stagg A, Evans M, Giglia T, Preminger T, Ravishankar C: Initial experience with a tube weaning program using the hunger provocation method in infants with palliated congenital heart disease Poster presentation at the fall learning session of SVOne meeting, 10/10/25, Indianapolis. Poster presentation at the fall learning session of SVOne meeting, 10/10/25, Indianapolis. October 2025.

Stagg A, Giglia TM, Ravishankar C, Preminger TJ.: Experience with telemedicine for interstage monitoring in infants with palliated congenital heart disease. Poster presentation at the fall learning session of SVOne meeting, 10/10/25, Indianapolis. Poster presentation at the fall learning session of SVOne meeting, 10/10/25, Indianapolis. October 2025.

Ware AL, Jones C, Kipps AK, Khadr L, Marcuccio E, Patel SS, Plummer S, Ravishankar C, Figueroa M.: Feeding Variation among Infants in Acute Care Cardiology Units. Pediatr Cardiol. 46(5): 1241-1247, June 2025.

Gaynor JW, Mahle M, Ittenbach RF, Kaplinski M, Lawrence KM, Hunt ML, Burnham NB, Fuller S, Chen JM, Maeda K, Mavroudis CD, Nuri MAK, O'Connor MJ, Dodds KM, Gardner MM, Goldberg DJ, Ravishankar C, Rychik J, Kim YY, Hampton L, Mascio CE, Spray TL, Nicolson SC. : Long-Term Survival and Patient-Reported Outcomes After Staged Reconstructive Surgery for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. J Am Coll Cardiol. 85(24): 2386-2398, June 2025.

Whitworth HB, Wagner KM, Avitabile CM, Blowey B, Costello RA, Davis JC, Davis DH, Ellison AM, Giglia TM, Himebauch AS, Houng K, Law CK, Mavroudis CD, Mercer-Rosa L, O'Byrne ML, Ravishankar C, Raffini LJ: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Pediatric Pulmonary Embolism Clinical Pathway and Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (In press). Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2025.

Elias MD, Brothers JA, Hogarty AN, Martino J, O'Byrne ML, Patel C, Stephens P, Tingo J, Vetter VL, Ravishankar C, Giglia TM.: Outcomes Associated with Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysms after Kawasaki Disease: A Single-Center United States Experience. J Pediatr. 274, November 2024.

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 3(5): 100935, April 2024.

Pruitt C et al for the PHN Investigators: Longitudinal Assessment of Growth 10 Years After the Norwood Procedure: Results from the Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial (SVRIII). Oral presentation at the AAP. AAP 2024.

Cathleen Pruitt, MD, MSCI; Linda M Lambert, MSN, FNP; Zhining Ou, MS; Caren Goldberg, MD, MS; Angela Presson, PhD; Alaa Aljiffry, MBBS, MD; Jeffrey Anderson, MD, MPH; Jon Detterich, MD; Benjamin Frischhertz, MD; Katherin Lupton, MPH, BS; Andrew McCrary, MD; Brian McCrindle, MD, MPH; Amanda McCormick, MD; Jane Newburger, MD, MPH; Christian Pizarro, MD; Chitra Ravishankar, MD; Nancy Rudd, BSN, MS; Amee Shah, MD; Felicia Trachtenberg, PhD; LuAnn Minich, MD; For the Pediatric Heart Network Investigators : THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL DETERMINANTS ON GROWTH AT 10 YEARS AFTER THE NORWOOD PROCEDURE: RESULTS FROM THE SINGLE VENTRICLE RECONSTRUCTION (SVR) TRIAL. Accepted for poster presentation at the AHA. AHA 2024.

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