Specialties & ConditionsHeart Center Cardiologists & Advanced Practice Nurses
Cardiologists & Advanced Practice Nurses
Our team of pediatric cardiologists and advanced practice nurses provide innovative clinical care with a unique family-centered approach. We diagnose and treat a wide range of pediatric congenital heart defects, as well as numerous other heart conditions (including electrophysiology issues and connective tissue disorders). Cardiologists are faculty in the Division of Cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
The following physicians and advanced practice nurses specialize in treating children with heart conditions. Please note, not all of our specialists are available at every location. Select their names to learn more about their special interest areas and locations.
Kiona Y. Allen, MD
Medical Director, Regenstein Cardiac Care Unit; Medical Director, Single Ventricle Center of Excellence; Co-Director, NICU-Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program, Gracias Family Professorship in Cardiac Critical Care
Guilherme Baptista De Faria, MD
Attending Physician, Cardiology and Preventive Cardiology Program
Joseph A. Camarda, MD
Attending Physician, Cardiology; Clinical Practice Director
Michael R. Carr, MD
Clinical Practice Director and Attending Physician, Cardiology; Program Director, Cardiology Fellowship Program
A. Sami Chaouki, MD, PhD
Director, ECG Laboratories; Attending Physician, Cardiology; Program Director, Invasive Cardiology Fellowship
Amanda L. Hauck, MD
Attending Physician, Cardiology; Medical Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Nazia Husain, MBBS, MPH
Medical Director, Clinical and Translational Cardiac MRI/CT; Attending Physician, Cardiology
Anna G. Joong, MD
Medical Director, Ventricular Assist Device Program; Attending Physician, Cardiology
Paul J. Kim, MD
Attending Physician, Cardiology
Amy S. Lay, MD
Director, Non-Critical Care Inpatient Cardiology; Associate Medical Director, Regenstein Cardiac Care Unit; Attending Physician, Cardiology
Angira Patel, MD, MPH
Attending Physician, Cardiology; Associate Chair, Faculty Development; Director, Advanced Cardiac Non-Invasive Imaging Fellowship
Sheetal R. Patel, MD, MSCI
Medical Director, Fetal Cardiology Program; Fetal Cardiac Co-Director, The Chicago Institute for Fetal Health; Attending Physician, Cardiology
Shivani G. Patel, MD
Pediatric Cardiologist, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Pediatric Outpatient Center
Amanda Marma Perak, MD, MSCI, FAHA, FACC
Attending Physician, Cardiology and Preventive Cardiology Program
Joshua D. Robinson, MD
Attending Physician, Cardiology; Section Head, Cardiac Imaging; Director, Bicuspid Aortic Valve Program
Philip T. Thrush, MD
Medical Director, Heart Failure/Heart Transplant Program; Attending Physician, Cardiology
Kendra M. Ward, MD, MSCI
Director, Cardiopulmonary Exercise Lab; Director, Cardiac Rehabilitation Program; Director, Preventive Cardiology Program; Attending Physician, Cardiology
Elizabeth S. Cappella, APRN
Advanced Practice Provider, Outpatient Cardiology; Advance Practice Nurse, Connective Tissue Disorders Program; Advance Practice Nurse, BAV Program
Christy Del Salto, APRN-NP, FNP-BC
Advanced Practice Nurse, Interventional Cardiology
Christina A. Grunwaldt, APRN-NP, FNP-BC
Advanced Practice Nurse, Interventional Cardiology
Amanda C. Hartmann, MSN, APRN-NP, CPNP-PC
Advanced Practice Provider, Inpatient Cardiology
Jenifer P. Horn, APRN-NP
Director, Heart Center Advanced Practice & Nursing; Advanced Practice Provider, Outpatient Cardiology
Nicole J. Janus, APRN-NP, CPNP-AC, FNP-BC, CCRN
Advanced Practice Provider, Cardiology
Meghan A. Malone Kawahara, DNP, APRN-NP, CPNP-AC
Advanced Practice Provider, Cardiology
Jillian M. Myers, MSN, APRN-NP, CPNP-PC
Director, POTS Program; Advanced Practice Provider, Cardiology
Jaclyn Reider, APRN-NP, CPNP-AC, CCDS
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Electrophysiology
Patricia Lynch Stapleton, APRN-NP
Advanced Practice Provider, Outpatient Cardiology and Preventive Cardiology Program
Michelle M. Steltzer, APRN-NP
Advanced Practice Provider, Single Ventricle Program Coordinator, Outpatient Cardiology
Kimberly Torgerson, APRN-NP, FNP-BC
Advanced Practice Provider, Outpatient Cardiology
Brie Ann Muller, MD
Attending Physician, Cardiology
Guy R. Randolph, MD
Member, Children's Community Physicians Association
Justin N. Uhl, MD
Member, Children’s Community Physicians Association
Thomas J. Weigel, MD
Member, Children's Community Physicians Association