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Our Team of Experts Cardiac Team

Lisa K. Hornberger, M.D.

Director of the Fetal Cardiovascular program

Dr. Lisa Hornberger, director of the Fetal Cardiovascular program at UCSF Children's Hospital, is working both to raise awareness and increase detection of fetal heart problems. She helps pediatric cardiologists, obstetricians, radiologists and technicians improve their fetal cardiac screening through lectures as well as hands-on training. Hornberger joined UCSF in December of 2003 after building a similar program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, into one of the largest and most respected fetal cardiology referral centers in North America.

Hornberger received her medical degree from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, where she went on to complete her residency in pediatrics. She completed both a clinical and research fellowship in pediatric cardiology and ultimately was on staff at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston. In addition, she helped write the first textbook to be published within the field of fetal cardiology. Hornberger is an active researcher with numerous interests and a particular focus on the diagnosis, natural history, treatment and prevention of structural, functional and rhythm-related fetal cardiovascular disease. She also is an associate professor of clinical pediatrics at UCSF.

Theresa Tacy, M.D.

Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography

Dr. Theresa Tacy is a pediatric cardiologist who specializes in using echocardiography to diagnose structural and functional cardiovascular abnormalities. Tacy devotes most of her time to the echocardiography laboratory and Fetal Cardiovascular Program at UCSF, where she supports the operating rooms, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Intensive Care Nursery. Tacy is also actively researching the cardiovascular system. She performs very detailed analyses of the cardiac function of select catheterization patients.

Clinical research design has long been a significant interest of Tacy's, who earned a graduate degree in biostatistics and clinical research design from the University of Michigan. She received her medical degree from University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and completed a pediatrics residency at University of Chicago, followed by a pediatric cardiology fellowship at the University of Michigan.

Tacy serves on a number of professional organizations, including the Committee for Human Research at UCSF, American Heart Association, and American Society of Echocardiography.

Phillip Moore, M.D.

Director, Congenital Cardiac Catheterization Program

Dr. Phillip Moore, director of the Congenital Interventional Catheterization Program at UCSF Children's Hospital, has been an active in developing and testing new catheter-based devices and procedures to treat congenital heart disease for the last 10 years. He is internationally known for his work on patent ductus arteriosus and atrial septal defect device closure as well as the exciting new field of magnetic resonance image guidance of catheter-based treatment of congenital heart disease.

Michael Brook, M.D.

Director of Pediatric Echocardiography

Dr. Michael Brook is the director of the Pediatric Echocardiography Laboratory and a pediatric cardiologist. He is particularly interested in transesophageal and contrast echocardiography and the assessment of ventricular function by echocardiography. He also is interested in digital echocardiography and in computer applications of cardiology. Brook sees outpatients at the clinic based in Santa Rosa, Calif.

A graduate of Marquette University, he received his medical training from the University of Wisconsin. He completed a general pediatric residency in 1989 at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric cardiology at UCSF Children's Hospital in 1992, when he joined the UCSF faculty.

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