Shobha S Natarajan, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Attending Cardiologist, Echocardiography Laboratory including TEE and CICU teams, The Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Cardiologist, Inpatient Cardiac Care Unit, The Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Cardiologist, The Fetal Heart Program, The Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Consultant in Pediatric Cardiology, Pennsylvania Hospital
Attending Cardiologist, The Infant Single Ventricle Monitoring Program, The Cardiac Center,
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-Director, The Hypertension Program, A Joint Clinical Program between the Cardiac Center and the Division of Nephrology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director, The Vascular lab for Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk,
The Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director, Vascular Lab Core, The Clinical and Translational Research Core, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Echocardiography Attending, The Coronary Artery Management Program (CAMP), The Cardiac Center,
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Medical Director of Quality Improvement, The Cardiac Center,
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Cardiologist, CICU Consult service, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-Director, The Preventive Cardiovascular Program,
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director of the Cardiac Center Quality Improvement Leadership Workgroup, The Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Consultant in Pediatric Cardiology, Doylestown Hospital and Holy Redeemer Hospital
Director for the Cardiac Center Quality Improvement and Safety Advisory Council, The 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@email.chop.edu
natarajans@email.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
Stagg A, Giglia TM, Gardner MM, 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 Sep 2022.White BR, Chaszczewski KJ, Lemley B, Natarajan SS, Rogers LS: Sustained improvement in fellows' echocardiographic completeness through the coronavirus pandemic with a standardised imaging protocol. Cardiol Young Feb 2022.
Kaplinski M, Griffis H, Liu F, Tinker C, Laney NC, Mendoza M, Cohen MS, Meyers K, Natarajan SS: Left Ventricular Measurements and Strain in Pediatric Patients Evaluated for Systemic Hypertension and the Effect of Adequate Anti-hypertensive Treatment. Pediatr Cardiol 43(1): 155-163, Jan 2022.
Natarajan SS, Chaszczewski K, Ansah D, Balasubramanian S, Beattie M, Bhat, AH, Brewer C, Campbell MJ, Carney M, Churchill TL, Dhanantwari P, Jone P, Kong G, Kwon EN, Lipinski J, Madan N, Nelson J, Olsen R, Parthiban A, Prospero C, Rajagopal H, Sachdeva R, Sanandajifar H, Sanchez Mejia A, Srivastava S, Stern K, Taylor C, Tierney S, Cohen MS: Rationale and Design of the First Multicenter Pediatric Echocardiography Quality Improvement Collaborative: Decreasing Pre-operative Imaging Discrepancies in Patients prior Congenital Heart Defect Surgery. The American Society of Echocardiography 2022.
Shih EK, Beslow LA, Natarajan SS, Falkensammer CB, Messé SR, Ichord RN: Prevalence of Patent Foramen Ovale in a Cohort of Children with Cryptogenic Ischemic Stroke. Neurology 97(21): e2096-e2102, Nov 2021
Kaplinski M, Griffis H, Liu F, Tinker C, Laney NC, Mendoza M, Cohen MS, Meyers K, Natarajan SS: Left ventricular measurements and strain in pediatric patients evaluated for systemic hypertension and the effect of adequate anti-hypertensive treatment. Pediatric Cardiology Page: doi: 10.1007, Aug 2021 Notes: epub ahead of print.
Ahmed H, Anderson JB, Bates KE, Natarajan S, Ghanayem NS, Lannon CM, Brown DW; National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative.: Characteristics of Interstage Death After Discharge from Stage I Palliation. Pediatr Cardiol 42(6): 1372-137, May 2021.
Chang JC, Wang Y, Xiao R, Fedec A, Meyers KE, Tinker C, Natarajan SS, Knight AM, Weiss PF, Mercer-Rosa L.: Echocardiographic strain analysis reflects impaired ventricular function in youth with pediatric-onset systemic lupus erythematosus. Echocardiography 37: 2082-2090, Dec 2020.
Kaplinski M, Ittenbach RF, Hunt ML, Stephan D, Natarajan SS, Ravishankar C, Giglia TM, Rychik J, Rome JJ, Mahle M, Kennedy AT, Steven JM, Fuller SM, Nicolson SC, Spray TL, Gaynor JW, Mascio CE.: Decreasing Interstage Mortality After the Norwood Procedure: A 30-Year Experience. J Am Heart Assoc 9: e016889, Oct 2020.
Min J, Griffis HM, Mendoza M, Tam V, Kaplinski M, Kogon AJ, Hanson H, Meyers KE, Natarajan SS.: The Impact of Early Recognition and Treatment of Systemic Hypertension on Reducing Blood Pressure: The Hypertension and Vascular Evaluation Program. Clin Pediatr 59(11): 970-977, Oct 2020.