Children's

Research Focus:
Strengthening the Health System Response to Rheumatic Heart Disease: Developing Evidence-Based Strategies For Prevention.

Center Director:
Craig Sable, MD, FAHA

Training Director:
Craig Sable, MD, FAHA

Principal Investigators

• James Dale, MD
  Human Immunity to Potential Group A Streptococcal Vaccine Antigens in Subjects at High Risk for Rheumatic Heart Disease


• Andrea Beaton, MD
  Working Towards a Better Understanding of Acute Rheumatic Fever


• David Watkins, MD, MPH
  Building a Case to Invest in Rheumatic Heart Disease Prevention and Control in Limited Resource Settings

Research Focus:
Address critical knowledge gaps in the basic biology and effective treatment of pediatric and adolescent obesity.

Center Director:
Jennifer Li, MD, MHSc

Training Director:
Asheley Skinner, PhD

Principal Investigators

• Svati Shah, MD, MHS, FAHA
  Microbiota Related Molecular Pathways in Pediatric Obesity


• Sarah Armstrong, MD
  A randomized trial of an integrated clinic-community intervention in children and adolescents with obesity


• Asheley Skinner, PhD
  Effectiveness and implementation of tertiary-care pediatric obesity treatment programs

Research Focus:
Early Life Origins of Cardiovascular Health: Healthier, Earlier.

Center Director:
Bradley Marino, MD, MPP, MSCE, FAHA
Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, FAHA

Training Director:
Matthew Davis, MD

Principal Investigators

• Lifang Hou, MD, MSc
  Characterizing Dynamic Epigenomic Markers of CVH in Early Life


• Linda Van Horn, PhD, RD, FAHA
  Keeping Ideal Cardiovascular Health Family Intervention Trial: KIDFIT


• Norrina Allen, PhD, MPH, FAHA
  Cardiovascular Health Trajectories from Birth Through Adolescence

Research Focus:
Leveraging Big Data Science to Link Genomics, Epigenetics and the Family to Improve the Health of Children with CHD.

Center Director:
Martin Tristani-Firouzi, MD

Training Director:
H. Joseph Yost, PhD

Principal Investigators

• Mark Yandell, PhD
  An integrated data-science, transcriptomics, and genomics approach to understanding Complex CHD


• Robert Silver, MD
  Maternal-fetal environment, epigenetics and complex congenital heart disease


• Angela Fagerlin, PhD, MA
  Improving Patient and Family Health Using Family-Centered Outcomes and Shared Decision-Making