Minutes of ASE Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease (PCHD ...

Harvard Medical School, followed by a pediatric residency and pediatric cardiology fellowship at
Children’s Hospital Boston, including a senior fellowship year in non-invasive imaging. His primary
interests include transthoracic, transesophageal, and fetal echocardiography in the management of
congenital heart disease, with special interest in the evaluation of patients with single ventricles. He is
also interested in medical education, and has completed two additional fellowships in medical education
at Harvard Medical School; he serves as an inpatient cardiology ward attending and directs the Harvard
Medical School third and fourth year medical student cardiology rotations. Within ASE, Dr. Brown has
served on the Advocacy Committee and Publications Committee, and is interested in promoting multicenter
collaborative research.
Dr. Mark Freiberg _____
Dr. Friedberg received his medical degree with honors from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Medical School in Beer-Sheba, Israel and underwent pediatric residency at the Rambam Medical Center in
Haifa, Israel. He completed his pediatric cardiology fellowship and sub-specialty training in pediatric
echocardiography at Stanford University in California, where he was awarded a Glaser Pediatric Research
Network fellowship. Since 2006 he has served as a staff cardiologist at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children
and as an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. His current clinical and research interests
include echocardiographic assessment of cardiac function in children with congenital and acquired heart
disease, assessment of mechanical dyssynchrony and cardiac resynchronization therapy in children and
fetal echocardiography.
Dr. John P. Kovalchin _____
Dr. Kovalchin is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine and
director of echocardiography at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He completed his
fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. He then
completed an additional fourth year of training in advanced noninvasive cardiac imaging at the University
of California, San Francisco. He subsequently returned to Texas Children’s Hospital as faculty in
echocardiography for ten years, and also served as the associate director of cardiac MRI. In 2006, he
moved to Columbus to join the heart center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, where the imaging
program has excelled in telemedicine, fetal and adult congenital imaging, interventional
echocardiography and cardiac MRI. He is the program director of a fourth year funded fellowship in
advanced noninvasive cardiac imaging. His research has focused echocardiographic morphometric and
hemodynamic factors as indicators of outcome in patients with congenital heart disease. He has been an
active member of ASE and the Society of Pediatric Echocardiography since 1993, and has been a fellow of
ASE since 2003. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Pediatric Cardiology. He is also a member
of the Noninvasive Imaging Quality Metrics Work Group of the American College of Cardiology.
Dr. Anita Moon-Grady _____
Anita Moon-Grady is currently an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of California San
Francisco, Director of the UCSF Fetal Cardiovascular Program and a member of the UCSF Fetal Treatment
Center Faculty. After graduating from Stanford Medical School in 1993, she completed a residency in
Pediatrics and fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the University of California Davis. She then
completed fellowship training in Pediatric Cardiology at UCSF, after which she took a position as the
Director of Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography at UC Davis in Sacramento while holding a joint
appointment with UCSF. She joined UCSF as full-time faculty in the fall of 2008, where her particular
clinical expertise is in intraoperative imaging and fetal echocardiography. Dr. Moon-Grady is an active
clinical researcher whose interests are in fetal cardiovascular assessment and treatment. Her research has
focused both on prenatal diagnosis and on the development of echocardiographic profiles for riskstratification
of fetuses with structural or functional cardiovascular abnormalities, helping to guide
prenatal and postnatal therapy and predict outcomes of congenital anomalies. She has participated in the
ASE writing group regarding Guidelines and Standards for echocardiography in the neonatal intensive care
unit. Dr. Moon-Grady has published over 30 peer-reviewed research papers, chapters, and editorials.
Within ASE, she is interested in advancing awareness and education regarding prenatal detection of