Department of Pediatrics

Cardiology

Map of Outreach Clinics
CARDIAC project

Larry Rhodes, MD Professor and Section Chief Harvard Medical School / Boston Children's Hospital	Arpy Ballian, MD Assistant Professor
Todd Gudausky, MD Assistant Professor	William A. Neal, MD Professor University of Minnesota (Fellowship)
	John Phillips, MD Assistant Professor Ohio State University (Fellowship) Cook's Children's Hospital (Electrophysiology)

Pediatric Cardiology
WVU’s pediatric heart program has an outstanding reputation. WVU is a member of the Pediatric Cardiac Care Quality Assurance Consortium and is the referral center for West Virginia and parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. WVU’s pediatric heart specialists perform about 250 cardiothoracic procedures, 100 cardiac catheterizations, and 3000 ultrasound examinations a year. Pediatric cardiology outreach clinics are held in six cities – Beckley, Huntington, Lewisburg, Martinsburg, Parkersburg, and Wheeling.

The Children’s Preventive Cardiology Clinic provides consultative services for children who have severe dyslipidemia and their parents. The multidisciplinary clinic team includes pediatric cardiologists, nutrition counselors, exercise physiologists, and genetic counselors. For maps of locations for CARDIAC project, please see the links in the box to the right.

Separate pacemaker and arrhythmia clinics are held for pediatric patients.

Urgent patients will be seen within 48 hours. Emergency patients are seen immediately.

Section Support Staff:
Tracy Coup, RN, cardiology nurse specialist

Pamela Casteel, Administrative Secretary

Section of Pediatric Cardiology (304) 293-7036
Fax (304) 293-1409