 The Pediatric Cardiology Department provides the highest level of cardiac care, providing diagnosis and management of a full spectrum of heart problems in infants, children and young adults. We recognize the value that parents and family have in helping children and young adults with heart problems, so we have adopted a family-centered approach to care.
Our services consist of a variety of diagnostic techniques including cardiac consultation, EKG analysis, exercise stress testing and state-of-the-art echocardiogram equipment.
For expectant parents with a family history of cardiovascular disease, we offer fetal echocardiogram testing and, if necessary, after your child is born we offer observation and care in our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
If surgical intervention is needed, including heart transplant, patients may be referred to our partner hospital, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center’s Children’s Heart Center. Joel T. Hardin, M.D., the Director of Cardiology for the Children’s Hospital at Newark Beth, works closely with the Monmouth Medical Center cardiology team to diagnose and treat patients. In 2006, the Children's Hospital of New Jersey was certified by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to perform pediatric heart transplantation. The certification ensures that young adults and teens in New Jersey have access to the same extraordinary level of care for complex heart problems that adults receive.
Our Team
Pediatric Heart Transplantation
Children who need cardiology services are cared for by a team of experienced, compassionate physicians and nurses and our cardiac technicians are led by a Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS) who has earned special certifications to work with pediatric patients.
Lloyda Rivera, MD (Section Chief)
Medical school: University Central del Caribe
Residency: San Juan City Hospital
Fellowship: Long Island Jewish - Hillside Medical Center
Practice Location
3204 Allaire Road, Wall, NJ 07719, Phone (732) 282-1060
Mitchel Alpert, MD
Medical school: UMDNJ
Residency: University Hospital/Children’s Hospital NJ
Fellowship: NYU
Elsa Castro, MD
Medical school: Universidad de Monterry, Mexico
Residency: Driscoll Children’s Hospital, Texas
Fellowship: Temple University/St. Christopher’s Hospital Philadelphia and Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York.
Vincent Zales, MD
Medical school: CETEC University
Residency: University of Minnesota Hospital
Fellowship: University of Minessota Hospital
Practice Location - Drs. Alpert, Zales & Castro
1623 Route 88 W. Suite A, Brick, NJ 08723 Phone (732) 458-9666
Nakul Chandra, MD
Medical school: Royal College of Physicians UK
Residency: Tufts New England Medical School Boston
Fellowship: Down State Medical Center New York
Practice Location
137 Pavilion Avenue, Long Branch, NJ 07740 Phone (732) 870-1611
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Through our affiliation with the Children’s Heart Center at Children’s Hospital of NJ at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center , located at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, we can now offer access to life saving heart transplantation, meaning young adults and their families no longer have to endure the additional stress of traveling out of state for surgery and treatment.
Joel Hardin, M.D., Director of Cardiology at Children’s Hospital of New Jersey, works closely with our physicians and is a consulting cardiologist for our hospital so he is available to help access the needs of each patient and map out the most effective treatment plan.
In November 2006, the Children's Hospital of New Jersey was certified by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to perform pediatric heart transplantation. The certification ensures that young adults and teens in New Jersey have access to the same extraordinary level of care for complex heart problems that adults receive. The Saint Barnabas Heart Center at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center is New Jersey’s largest and most experienced adult heart transplant center and ranks seventh in the nation by volume. As an outgrowth of the adult program, the new pediatric transplant service benefits from the two decades of experience, research and expertise that make Newark Beth Israel Medical Center’s adult heart transplant program among the finest in the nation. Patients of the Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center benefit from our seamless relationship with this cardiac program and our access to its top physicians.
Our partnership with the Children’s Heart Center also gives our patients access to one of the top five pediatric cardiac surgery programs in the nation in affiliation with the Cardiac Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
, The Children’s Heart Center at Newark Beth Israel Medical, click here.
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