Chicago's Top Cardiologists

Several of Lurie Children's Heart Center cardiologists and cardiovascular thoracic surgeons recognized in Chicago magazine, Top Cardiologists 2018 – a special edition of their Top Doctor List. 

Carl L. Backer, MD

Attending Physician, Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery; Chief Medical Philanthropy Officer; A.C. Buehler Professor of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Member, Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation

• Seeing Patients at 1 Location

Joseph M. Forbess, MD, MBA

Division Head, Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery; Surgical Director, Single Ventricle Reconstruction Program; Member, Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation

• Seeing Patients at 1 Location

Peter R. Koenig, MD

Attending Physician, Cardiology

• Seeing Patients at 3 Locations

Elfriede Pahl, MD

Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program; Marvin E. Wodika Professor of Cardiology; Co-Director, Research and Academic Affairs, Heart Center

• Seeing Patients at 1 Location

Dolores A. Vitullo, MD

Attending Physician, Cardiology; Clinical Practice Director

• Seeing Patients at 2 Locations

Thomas J. Weigel, MD

Member, Children's Community Physicians Association

• Seeing Patients at 9 Locations

Related Specialties

• Heart Center