Our Team of Experts Cardiac Team
Anita J. M. Grady, M.D. F.A.A.P., F.A.C.C.
Director of the Fetal Cardiovascular program
Dr. Anita Moon-Grady (Grady), director of the Fetal Cardiovascular program at UCSF Benioff 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. She works with the Fetal Treatment Center to coordinate care in pregnancies affected by fetal heart disease or dysfunction, whether intervention is necessary before, during, or immediately after birth. Moon-Grady joined UCSF in October of 2008.
Moon-Grady received her medical degree from Stanford University, where she also earned a Dean’s Award for research in Human Genetics; she went on to complete her Residency in Pediatrics at the University of California Davis before completing a Fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, also at UC Davis. She then completed Fellowship training in Pediatric Cardiology at UCSF, after which she went on to become the Director of Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography at UC Davis before joining UCSF full-time in the fall of 2008. Moon-Grady is an active researcher whose interests focus on diastolic dysfunction and fetal cardiovascular assessment and treatment. Currently, Moon-Grady is researching non-invasive imaging modalities for investigating normal and abnormal cardiac function in patients with congenital heart disease and fetuses with congenital heart disease and cardiac compromise as well as fetuses at risk for cardiac dysfunction due to non-cardiac causes. She also is an associate professor of clinical pediatrics at UCSF.
Anthony Azakie, M.D., C.M.
Chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Dr. Anthony Azakie is Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at the University of California San Francisco and Surgical Director of the Pediatric Heart Center. He specializes in all complex neonatal and pediatric cardiac surgery treating a variety of congenital heart defects including hypoplastic left heart syndrome, tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of the great arteries, atrioventricular septal defects, diseases of the pulmonary veins, single ventricle lesions and aortic arch problems. He also specializes in surgery for adults with treated and untreated congenital heart defects. Dr. Azakie works in close collaboration with other branches of the Pediatric Heart Center including the echocardiography service, catheterization lab, electrophysiology program, pediatric cardiac intensive care unit, and Fetal Cardiovascular Program to provide comprehensive cardiac care.
Dr. Azakie attended medical school at McGill University where he ranked in the top 5% and was awarded the Stewart Prize for most qualified graduating student as well as the Wood Gold Medal for most outstanding clinical performance. Dr. Azakie first came to UCSF to complete his residency in General Surgery. He continued his residency in Adult Cardiac Surgery and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Toronto, Toronto General Hospital and St. Michael's Hospital. Dr. Azakie trained as Chief Resident and Fellow in Congenital Heart Surgery through the University of Toronto at the Toronto General Hospital and Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. Azakie returned to UCSF in 2001 and he is currently Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at UCSF and UC Davis.
Dr. Azakie is Director of the UCSF Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgical Laboratories. His research focuses on identifying mechanisms for the formation of myocardium and characterizing clinically relevant maladaptive responses of cardiac muscle.
Phillip Moore, M.D.
Director, Congenital Cardiac Catheterization Program
Dr. Phillip Moore, director of the Congenital Interventional Catheterization Program at UCSF Benioff 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 Benioff Children's Hospital in 1992, when he joined the UCSF faculty.
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