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Shobha S Natarajan

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Shobha S Natarajan, MD

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

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Department: Pediatrics

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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
1e Division of Cardiology
43 34th Street & Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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natarajans@chop.edu

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13 Education:
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2a Haverford College, 1990.
21 e Post-Bacc 18 (Pre-Medical) c
2a Bryn Mawr College, 1994.
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44 University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1999.
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Selected Publications

154 Stanley HM, Vaiyani D, Cohen MS, Natarajan SS, White BR: Multimodality Imaging in Presurgical Evaluation of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection: Single-Center Practice Variability and a Systematic Review of Diagnostic Error. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. Jun 2025.

412 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.

1d6 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 1e Dec 2024.

172 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.

1a9 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.

1ca 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.

17a 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.

1fa 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.

18c 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.

1aa 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.

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