Rowan F. Walsh, MBBS, BAO, BCh Joins Children’s Heart Center at Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

Newark, NJ --Rowan F. Walsh, MBBS, BAO, BCh, was recently appointed pediatric cardiologist at Children’s Heart Center at Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an affiliate of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System. He joins a team of nationally and internationally respected pediatric cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiac intensivists and cardiothoracic anesthesiologists based at the Children’s Heart Center and available 24 hours a day.

Dr. Walsh completed a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Schneider Children’s Hospital, New Hyde Park, NY. He received his medical degree from the University College Cork, Ireland and completed a residency in surgery and internal medicine at South Infirmary Victoria Hospital, Cork; a surgical residency at Mercy Hospital, Cork; and a pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center, NY.

Board certified in pediatrics, Dr. Walsh is a member of the American College of Cardiology and the American Medical Association. He is the co-author of several published articles and has made numerous presentations at professional conferences in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Walsh, who specializes in echocardiography, is the newest member of a team skilled and experienced in applying the entire spectrum of state-of-the-art diagnostic capabilities including three-dimensional echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, stress echocardiography, fetal echocardiography, and cardiac MRI.

Over the last decade, the Children’s Heart Center has performed more pediatric cardiac surgery and interventional cardiac catheterization procedures – often involving extremely complex malformations - than any other hospital in New Jersey. The Center’s cardiologists and surgeons successfully performed New Jersey’s first hybrid transcatheter and surgical repair of a complex congenital heart defect in a newborn baby under beating heart conditions. The interventional cardiology team has more than 20 years experience in New Jersey’s largest single center for catheter-based treatment of complex congenital heart disease – in children and adults. In its dedicated Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, cardiologists have succeeded in treating an increasingly complex patient mix with zero mortality over the last six years.

The Center’s electrophysiology capabilities have recently been expanded to include cryoablation procedures, currently available only at the nation’s most progressive pediatric cardiac centers. The coordinated pediatric transport service brings children from across the state to Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center for the most sophisticated cardiac care.

July 2, 2007

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