Globally recognized pediatric interventional cardiologist Dr. Shyam Sathanandam has joined Nicklaus Children’s Hospital as chief of cardiovascular medicine and co-director of the renowned Nicklaus Children’s Heart Institute.
Dr. Sathanandam brings to Nicklaus Children’s Heart Institute extensive experience in pediatric cardiology and interventional catheterization. He served since 2017 as the director of the catheterization lab at LeBonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, TN. During this tenure, he was instrumental in strengthening the Pediatric Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology Program and also launched the International PDA Symposium in 2018, the first multispecialty global conference dedicated to advancing the management of PDA in preterm newborns.
Dr. Sathanandam is a leader in pediatric cardiology research and has served as principal investigator on numerous national clinical trials, several of which have resulted in FDA approval of life-saving devices for newborns and infants. He has pioneered groundbreaking procedures, including bedside transcatheter PDA closure in extremely premature infants in the NICU, pulmonary flow reduction in neonates with complex congenital heart disease, and stent therapies for infants.
