Meredith Leslie, MD, is a general pediatric cardiologist, delivering comprehensive cardiac care to patients with congenital and acquired heart disease. Her clinical practice involves management of common childhood cardiac issues including murmurs, chest pain, palpitations, syncope, and preventative cardiology. She has a special interest in fetal cardiology, with focus on diagnosis and family-centered management of complex congenital heart disease from... Read More about Meredith Leslie, MD

Ruchika Karnik, MBBS, (a medical degree awarded in several countries outside of the U.S.), is a general pediatric cardiologist who diagnoses and manages congenital and acquired heart disease for pediatric patients from newborn stage to adolescence. She has an additional focus on fetal cardiology, including fetal echocardiography (ultrasound) which encompasses care for pregnant women who are at high risk to... Read More about Ruchika Karnik, MD

Cheyenne M. Beach, MD, a pediatric cardiologist, says there is no greater reward than working through heart rhythm problems with her patients. “I love seeing the positive effect we can have on our patients’ lives and finding the best possible solution for each one,” she says. “And I enjoy interacting with our wide variety of patients. I have the opportunity... Read More about Cheyenne Beach, MD

Nimrod Lavi, MD, is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist, or a doctor who treats abnormal heart rhythms. He has a special interest in catheter ablation of complex arrhythmia, which is a procedure done to fix problematic electrical pathways to sections of the heart that can make the heart beat irregularly.

Joseph Akar, MD, PhD, is director of Yale Medicine’s Electrophysiology and Cardiac Arrhythmia Program. As an electrophysiologist, he treats the “electrical wiring” of the heart, which he describes as being not unlike the wiring in a house. The system must work properly, but the electricity in one of the chambers could get disrupted, he says. Heartbeat sequences that are too... Read More about Joseph Akar, MD

Erin Faherty, MD, is a pediatric cardiologist who treats young patients in Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. She sees newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and older children and teenagers who are admitted because they are experiencing heart-related issues or need emergency surgery.

Peter J. Gruber, MD, PhD, is the chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery for Yale Medicine and Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, and a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon who treats patients from infancy—in some cases before they are born—to adults. He specializes in complex congenital heart disease, also known as structural heart disease, and performs a wide spectrum of procedures and complex... Read More about Peter Gruber, MD

Dina Ferdman, MD, is a pediatric cardiologist who cares for children (newborns through adolescents) who have congenital heart disease, a problem with the structure of the heart and one of the most common birth defects. She also screens children with such cardiac concerns such as heart murmurs, chest pain, and palpitations. Based in Fairfield County, Dr. Ferdman provides preventive and... Read More about Dina Ferdman, MD

Katherine Kosiv, MD, is a pediatric cardiologist with expertise in cardiac imaging and fetal cardiology. She cares for children and young adults with congenital or acquired heart disease, and pregnant women with fetuses that have a suspected congenital heart defect. She has expertise in fetal cardiology and noninvasive imaging, and performs transthoracic, transesophageal, and fetal echocardiography.

Nimrod Lavi, MD, is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist, or a doctor who treats abnormal heart rhythms. He has a special interest in catheter ablation of complex arrhythmia, which is a procedure done to fix problematic electrical pathways to sections of the heart that can make the heart beat irregularly.

Ruchika Karnik, MBBS, (a medical degree awarded in several countries outside of the U.S.), is a general pediatric cardiologist who diagnoses and manages congenital and acquired heart disease for pediatric patients from newborn stage to adolescence. She has an additional focus on fetal cardiology, including fetal echocardiography (ultrasound) which encompasses care for pregnant women who are at high risk to... Read More about Ruchika Karnik, MD

Meredith Leslie, MD, is a general pediatric cardiologist, delivering comprehensive cardiac care to patients with congenital and acquired heart disease. Her clinical practice involves management of common childhood cardiac issues including murmurs, chest pain, palpitations, syncope, and preventative cardiology. She has a special interest in fetal cardiology, with focus on diagnosis and family-centered management of complex congenital heart disease from... Read More about Meredith Leslie, MD