Advocate Children’s Hospital's Heart Institute is dedicated to research and education to advance the care and treatment of children with cardiovascular diseases. A central piece of Heart Institute's mission is to train the next generation of pediatric cardiologists and clinical investigators. We achieve this goal through the expertise of our internationally known faculty combined with the facilities and resources of the Advocate Children’s Hospital.
Fellowship Program Leadership
Rupali Gandhi, MD
Program Director, Cardiology Fellowship
Joshua Wong, MD
Associate Program Director, Cardiology Fellowship
Non-Invasive Imaging
David Roberson, MD
Director, Non-Invasive Imaging
Transthoracic, Transesophageal and Fetal Echocardiography
Kirsten Borsheim, MD
Waseem Cossor, MD
Director, Cardiac MRI and CT
Transthoracic and Fetal Echocardiography
Eleanor Ross, MD
Associate Director, Echocardiography Lab
Transthoracic, Transesophageal and Fetal Echocardiography
Saad Siddiqui, MD
Associate Director, Fetal Echocardiography
Transthoracic, Transesophageal and Fetal Echocardiography
Rupali Gandhi, MD
Transthoracic and Fetal Echocardiography
Tania Saroli, MD
Transthoracic, Transesophageal and Fetal Echocardiography
Karla Wehrheim, MD
Cardiac MRI and CT
Transthoracic, Transesophageal and Fetal Echocardiography
Clinical Cardiology
Tarek Husayni, MD
Single Ventricle Program
Sunthorn Muangmingsuk, MD
Outreach and Fetal Echocardiography
Interventional Cardiology
Alex Javois, MD
Director, Catheterization Lab
Dhaval Patel, MD
Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Critical Care
Electrophysiology
Cardiac Critical Care
Rohit Loomba, MD
Critical Care, Pathology and Single Ventricle Program
Melissa Nater, MD
Critical Care and ECMO Medical Director
Kristen Nelson McMillan, MD
Critical Care, Coagulation Specialist, and Pulmonary Hypertension
Joshua Wong, MD
Critical Care and Single Ventricle Program
Sarah Gardner Yelton, MD
Adult Congenital Cardiology
Michael Earing, MD
Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
Director, Adult Congential Heart Disease Program
James Monaco, MD
Ira Shetty, MD
Adult Congenital Heart Disease and
Non-Invasive Electrophysiology
Cardiothoracic Surgeons
Heart Failure, Transplant
Stephen Pophal, MD
Heart Failure, Transplant