Dr. Javier Gonzalez is a pediatric cardiologist and medical director of inpatient cardiac services and echocardiography services at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital (JDCH). Having started his medical career in the early 2000s, he says the advancements in diagnostic imaging from then till now are significant. “We primarily used 2D echocardiograms and had just started to use 3D at the time, now we regularly use holographic 3D reconstructions in planning for complex cases. Computerized tomography was only 16 slices; now we have 384 and photon counting technology with minimal radiation,” said Gonzalez, who earned cardiology and advanced cardiovascular imaging fellowships at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2008 and 2009.
Dr. Gonzalez joined JDCH in 2022 after serving as the director of hospitalization and non-invasive cardiology for 14 years at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Tampa. He says Memorial’s commitment to being at the forefront of technological advances, new treatments, therapies, and the outcomes being delivered by pediatric cardiac teams on even the most complex surgeries are things everyone connected to ‘Joe D.’ should be extremely proud of.
