Expert Details

Congenital Heart Disease, Kawasaki Disease, Endocarditis Prophylaxis

ID: 726884 California, USA

Expert is a pediatric cardiologist at a large metropolitan pediatric institution for over 40 years. He has served as medical director of pediatric cardiac catheterization laboratory for a number of years until 2006. He has undertaken thousands of diagnostic and interventional catheterizations. He currently rotates as a reader of pediatric echocardiograms. His current interests include long-term follow-up of patients who recovered from Kawasaki disease with coronary artery sequelae, and transitioning pediatric cardiac patients into adult cardiac centers. He is currently a Co-Director of Adult Congenital Heart Program at University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. Expert served on American Heart Association Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis and Kawasaki Disease, and collaborated with writing of a number of practice guidelines on Kawasaki disease, rheumatic fever and infective endocarditis.

BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS: Expert has served on American Heart Association Committee to write guidelines on diagnosis, treatment and prevention of bacterial endocardits. He has also personally treated at least 50 cases of endocarditis.

CARDIAC TAMPONADE: As a former invasive cardiologist, he is keenly familiar with sign, symptoms and pathophysiology of acute and chronic cardiac tamponade. He has testified on two occasions as an expert witness on this subject.

CARDIAC VALVE DISEASE/VALVAR HEART DISEASE: As pediatric cardiologist he has treated numerous patients with congenital and acquired diseases of heart valves.

CARDIOMEGALY: He has screened many patients referred for cardiomegaly, and know pitfall and nuances of this clinical findings.

CARDIOMYOPATHIES: He has personally diagnosed and managed various types of cardiomyopathies in his practice.

ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING: He is exposed daily with echocardiograms of patients with simple and complex cardiac diseases.

VENTRICLE OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION: In his practice he has diagnosed and managed many patients with obstructions of right or left ventricles.

VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION: He is familiar with the various ways heart function can deteriorate and can find optimal therapies to mitigate or reverse these problems.

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Education

Year	Degree	Subject	Institution
Year: 1960	Degree: MD	Subject: Medicine	Institution: Indiana University School of Medicine
Year: 1956	Degree: BA	Subject: Zoology and Chemistry	Institution: Wabash College

Work History

Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1968 to Present	Employer: Undisclosed	Title: Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus	Department: Cardiology
Responsibilities: He does outpatient consultations and follow-up evaluation on patients from birth to 21 years at the Employer. He also interprets echocardiograms.
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2006 to Present	Employer: Undisclosed	Title: Volunteer Faculty	Department: Cardiovascular Medicine
Responsibilities: He sees adult patients with congenital heart disease at USC Healthcare Consultation Center as well as Los Angeles County and USC Medical Center Department of Cardiovascular Medicine

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
American College of Cardiology American Heart Association Western Society of Pedaitric Cardiology

Licenses / Certifications
California medical license

Professional Appointments
Professor Emeritus Department of Pediatrics University of Southern Clifornia Keck School of Medicine Attending physician, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Attending physician, USC University Hospital

Awards / Recognition
Alpha Omega Alpha, 1960 Philip E. Rothman Memorial Award for Outstanding Teaching, 1974 American College of Cardiology Scientific Exhibit, 1981 (Second Place Award for Excellence) Distinguished Achievement Award, American Heart Association Greater LA Affiliate, 1983 Distinguished Service Award, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, 1992

Publications and Patents Summary
He has published 64 peer-review articles, 22 book chapters and 4 books

Language Skills

Language	Proficiency
Japanes	He is a native of Japan, and spent his frist 19 years in the country. He is completely fluent in the language.
Spanish	He has taken two semesters of lessons in spoken and written Spanish. Through his work he deals with Spanish-speaking patients on daily basis, and seldom requires a translator.

Fields of Expertise

congenital heart defect, congenital heart disease, mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, rheumatic heart disease, bacterial endocarditis, cardiac tamponade, cardiac valve disease, cardiomegaly, cardiomyopathies, echo-planar imaging, valvular heart disease, ventricle outflow obstruction, ventricular dysfunction, congenital cardiac surgery, lymphadenitis, aortitis, postpericardiotomy syndrome, pneumopericardium, pericardial effusion, aortic valve stenosis, heart rupture, Williams syndrome, heart rate monitor, vasculitis, blood pressure monitoring, cardiac catheterization, neonatal heart disease, teratology, implantable defibrillator, blood vessel, myocardial infarction, Down syndrome, teratogenicity, pulmonary valve stenosis, pericarditis, patent ductus arteriosus, myocardial ischemia, endocarditis, congestive heart failure, catheter, blood flow, arteritis