Description of Research Expertise

Identification of Critical Congenital Heart Disease, including universal screening with pulse oximetry
Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Congenital Heart Disease

Selected Publications

Hirshfeld AB, Kahle AL, Clark III BJ, Bridges ND: Parent-reported health status following pediatric thoracic organ transplant J Heart Lung Transplant 23 : 1111-1118,2004.

Hirshfeld AB, Thompson WR, Patel A, Boone LB, Murphy AM: Proximal trisomy 1q mosaicism in a girl with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy associated with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome and multiple congenital anomalies. Am J Med Genet 100 (6): 264-268,2001.

Sobel J, Hirshfeld AB, McTigue K, Burnett C, Altekruse S, Brenner F, Malcolm G, Mottice SL, Nichols CK, Swerdlow DL: The pandemic of Salmonella entertidis phage type 4 reaches Utah: a complex investigation confirms the need for continuing rigorous control measures Epidemiol Infect 125 (1): 1-8,2000.

Lopez JM, Song K, Hirshfeld AB, Lin H, Wolfner MF: The Drosophila fs(1)ya protein, which is needed for the first mitotic division, is in the nuclear lamina and in the envelopes of cleavage nuclei, pronuclei and nonmitotic nuclei Developmental Biology 163 : 202-211,1994.

Academic Contact Information

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Division of Cardiology
Room 8NW38, 8th Floor, Northwest Tower, Main Hospital
3401 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-590-2200
Patient appointments: 800-789-7366