Shobha S. Natarajan, MD

Medical School

MD - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA

Internship

Pediatrics - University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Residency

Pediatrics - University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (Chief Resident)

Fellowship

Pediatric Cardiology - University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Non-invasive Imaging/Research Fellow in Pediatric Cardiology - University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Board Certification

Pediatric Cardiology
Pediatrics

Papers

2019

Allen KY, Jones S, Jackson T, DeCost G, Stephens Jr. P, Hanna BD, Cohen MS, Smith-Whitley K, Mercer-Rosa L, Natarajan SS. Echocardiographic Screening of Cardiovascular Status in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease. Pediatr Cardiol. 2019 Sep 21. doi: 10.1007/s00246-019-02202-3. [Epub ahead of print]

White BR, Ho DY, Rogers LS, Natarajan SS. A Standardized Imaging Protocol Improves Quality and Reduces Practice Variability in Echocardiographic Assessment of Ventricular Function by First‐Year Pediatric Cardiology Fellows. Echocardiography July 2019.

Gardner MM, Mercer-Rosa L, DiLorenzo MP, Bates KE, Stagg A, Natarajan S, Szwast A, Tang J, Fuller S, Mascio CM, Fleck D, Torowicz DL, Giglia TM, Rome JJ, Ravishankar C. Association of a Home Monitoring Program with Interstage and Stage 2 Outcomes. Journal of the American Heart Association 8(10), May 2019.

Bates KE, Glatz AC, Giglia TG, Natarajan SS, Ravishankar C, Stagg A, Rome JJ. Evaluating the Utility of Routine Screening Catheterization Before Interstage Discharge of Infants with Single Ventricle Physiology. Cardiology in the Young 29(5), May 2019.

2017

Tierney ES, Hollenbeck-Pringle D, Lee CK, Altmann K, Dunbar-Masterson C, Golding F, Lu M, Miller SG, Molina K, Natarajan S, Taylor CL, Trachtenberg F, Colan SD. Reproducibility of Left Ventricular Dimension Versus Area Versus Volume Measurements in Pediatric Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging 10(11), Nov 2017.

2015

Rychik J, Cohen D, Tran KM, Szwast A, Natarajan S, Johnson MP, Moldenhauer JS, Khalek N, Martinez-Poyer J, Flake AW, Hedrick HL, Adzick NS. The Role of Echocardiography in the Intraoperative Management of the Fetus Undergoing Myelomeningocele Repair. Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy 37(3): 172-8, 2015.

Patel JK, Glatz AC, Ghosh RM, Jones SM, Natarajan S, Ravishankar C, Mascio CE, Spray TL, Cohen MS. Intramural Ventricular Septal Defect is a Distinct Clinical Entity Associated with Postoperative Morbidity in Children after Repair of Conotruncal Anomalies. Circulation 132(15): 1387-94, Aug 2015.

Channing A, Szwast A, Natarajan S, Degenhardt K, Tian T, Rychik J. Maternal Hyperoxygenation Improves Left Heart Filling in The Fetus with Atrial Septal Aneurysm Causing Impediment to Left Ventricular Inflow. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 45(6): 664-9, Jun 2015.

2013

Schwartz MC, Wellen S, Rome JJ, Ravishankar C, Natarajan S. Chest Pain with Elevated Troponin Assay in Healthy Adolescents. Cardiology in the Young 23(3): 353-60, Jun 2013.

Natarajan S, Szwast A, Tian Z, McCann M, Soffer D, Rychik J: Right Ventricular Mechanics in the Fetus with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 26(5): 515-20, May 2013.

Cnota JF, Allen KR, Colan S, Covitz W, Graham EM, Hehir DA, Levine JC, Margossian R, McCrindle BW, Minich LL, Natarajan S, Richmond ME, Hsu DT for the Pediatric Heart Network Investigators: Superior Cavopulmonary Anastomosis Timing and Outcomes in Infants with Single Ventricle. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 145(5): 1288-96, May 2013.

2012

Rychik J, Zeng S, Bebbington M, Szwast A, Quartermain M, Natarajan S, et al.  Speckle-tracking derived myocardial tissue deformation imaging in twin-twin transfusion syndrome: differences in strain and strain rate between donor and recipient twins. Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy In press.

2011

Kaza AK, Colan SD, Jaggers J, Lu M, Atz AM, Sleeper LA, et al. Surgical interventions for atrioventricular septal defect subtypes: the pediatric heart network experience. Ann Thorac Surg. 2011 Oct;92(4):1468-75; discussion 1475. Epub 2011 Aug 26. Cited in PubMed; PMID 21872212. Read the abstract

2010

Rychik J, Szwast A, Natarajan S, Quartermain M, Donaghue DD, Combs J, et al. Perinatal and early surgical outcome for the fetus with hypoplastic left heart syndrome: a five-year single institutional experience. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Oct;36(4):465-70. Cited in PubMed; PMID 0499409. Read the abstract

2009

Natarajan S, Heiss C, Yeghiazarians Y, Fineman JR, Teitel DF, Tacy TA. Peripheral arterial function in infants and young children with one-ventricle physiology and hypoxemia. Am J Cardiol. 2009 Mar 15;103(6):862-6. Cited in PubMed; PMID 19268746. Read the abstract

Kutty S, Whitehead KK, Natarajan S, Harris MA, Wernovsky G, Fogel MA. Qualitative echocardiographic assessment of aortic valve regurgitation with quantitative cardiac magnetic resonance: a comparative study. Pediatr Cardiol. 2009 Oct;30(7):971-7. Epub 2009 Jul 28. Cited in PubMed; PMID 19636486. Read the abstract

2008

Heiss C, Sievers RE, Amabile N, Momma TY, Chen Q, Natarajan S,et al.  In vivo measurement of flow-mediated vasodilation in living rats using high-resolution ultrasound. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2008 Feb;294(2):H1086-93. Epub 2007 Nov 30. Cited in PubMed; PMID 18055528. Read the article

2007

Anagnostopoulos P, Azakie A, Alphanso N, Natarajan S, Brook MM, Karl T. Pulmonary valve cusp augmentation with autologous pericardium may improve early outcome for Tetralogy of Fallot. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 133(3): 640-7, Mar 2007. Cited in PubMed; PMID 17320558. Read the abstract

Abstracts

2019

Brown N, Chen JM, Costarino AT, Dori Y, Natarajan SS, Ravishankar C, Rome JJ, Stewart MT, Naim MY. Cardiac Intensivists, Cardiologists and Cardiac Surgeons Partner to Change the Culture of a Meeting in a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. 2019 Center for Innovation and Leadership in Education (CENTILE) Conference, Washington, DC.

Banerjee A, Tsui FR, Guerra Marin JJ, Natarajan S, Ravishankar R, Rome JJ, Szwast AL, Stagg A, Giglia TM. Can Machine Learning Predict Hospitalization from Sparse Interstage Home Monitoring Data of Single Ventricle Infants? 2019 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Philadelphia, PA.

Min J, Mendoza M, Griffis H, Kaplinski M, Meyers K, Natarajan S. The Impact of Early Recognition and Treatment of Systemic Hypertension Program on Reducing Blood Pressure: The Hypertension and Vascular Evaluation (HAVE) Program. 2019 Pediatric Academic Society Meeting, Baltimore , MD.

Campbell MJ, Schachtner S, Abernathy B, Neubert S, Collier H, Ramsey EZ, McNally K, Natarajan S. Palivizumab Compliance in the Cardiac Care Unit. Cardiology 2019: 22nd Annual Update of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease: Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions, Huntington Beach, CA.

Tomasulo CE, Ravishankar C, Natarajan S, Mascio CE, Glatz AC. Massive Aneurysms Of Surgically Reconstructed Right Ventricular Outflow Tracts: A Case Series of Five Patients. Cardiology 2019: 22nd Annual Update of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease: Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions, Huntington Beach, CA.

2018

Kaplinski M, Griffis, H, Wang, Y, Banerjee, A, Quartermain MD, Natarajan S. Left Atrial and Ventricular mechanics in a Cohort of Hypertensive Children Compared to Age, Sex and Race Matched Controls. The American Society of Echocardiography 29th Scientific Sessions, Nashville TN 2018.

Kaplinski M, Ittenbach RF, Irons ML, Stephan D, Natarajan S, Ravishankar C, Giglia TM, Rychik J, Rome JJ, Mahle M, Kennedy AT, Steven JM, Fuller SM, Nicolson SC, Spray TL, Gaynor JW, Mascio CE. Decreasing Interstage Mortality after the Norwood Procedure: A 30 Year Experience. American Association for Thoracic Surgery October 2018.

Ahmed H, Anderson J, Bates K, Fleishman C, Natarajan S, Ghanayem N, Sleeper L, Lannon C, Brown D. Development of a Risk Score for Interstage Death or Transplant After Stage I Palliation for Single Ventricle Heart Disease. American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions March 2018.

Ahmed A, Anderson J, Bates K, Fleishman C, Natarajan S, Ghanayem N, Lannon C, Brown D. Characteristics of Interstage Death After Discharge from Stage I Palliation for Single Ventricle Heart Disease. American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions March 2018.

2017

Shih EK, Natarajan S, Falkensammer C, Beslow LA, Messe SR, Ichord RN: Role of Patent Foramen Ovale in First and Recurrent Childhood Cryptogenic Arterial Ischemic Stroke. International Stroke Conference, Houston, TX 2017.

Annavajjhala1 V, Valente AM, Lopez L, Sachdeva R, Glickstein JS,  Natarajan S, Buddhe S, Altmann K, Soriano BD, Colquitt JL, Altman CA, Asaki N, Sakarovitch C, Tacy TA, Geva T, Selamet Tierney ES: "Echocardiographic surveillance in children after tetralogy of Fallot repair: Adherence to guidelines?”. The American Society of Echocardiography 29th Annual Scientific Sessions, Nashville, TN 2017.

Gardner MM, Mercer-Rosa L, DiLorenzo MP, Bates KE, Stagg A, Natarajan S, Szwast A, Tang J, Fuller S, Mascio CM, Fleck D, Torowicz DL, Giglia TM, Rome JJ, Ravishankar C: Impact of Home Monitoring on Interstage Mortality and Stage II Outcomes. American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions March 2017.

Kaplinski M, Griffis H, Liu F, Tinker C, Laney NC, Mendoza M, Cohen MS, Meyers K, Natarajan S. Clinical Innovation: A Multi-Disciplinary Program for Early Recognition and Treatment of Systemic Hypertension in Children and Adolescents. The American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Anaheim, CA November 2017.

Kaplinski M, Griffis H, Liu F, Tinker C, Laney NC, Mendoza M, Cohen MS, Meyers K, Natarajan S: Echocardiographic Findings in Pediatric Patients Evaluated for Systemic Hypertension. The American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Anaheim, CA November 2017.

Books

Chapters

2016

Natarajan S, Cohen MS. Ventricular Septal Defects. Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease: From Fetus to Adult 2nd Edition. Lai WW, Mertens LL, Cohen MS and Geva T (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell, Page: 215-230, 2016.

2012

Natarajan S, Rogers L, Weinberg P. Vascular anomalies. In:  Allen HD, Driscoll DJ, Shaddy RE, Feltes TF. Moss and Adams heart disease in infants, children, and adolescents: including the fetus and young adult. 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins; in press.

Wellen S, Glatz A, Natarajan S. Acyanotic shunt lesions. In: Gleason M, Shaddy R, Rychik, editors. Pediatric practice cardiology. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2012

Natarajan S. Malalignment of conal septum with aortic arch obstruction. In: Rychik J, Tian Z, editors. Fetal cardiovascular imaging. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders; 2012.

Natarajan S. Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries. In: Rychik J, Tian Z, editors. Fetal cardiovascular imaging. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders; 2012.

2010

Szwast A, Natarajan S, Rychik, J. Fetal echocardiography. In: Eidem BW, Cetta F, O'Leary PW, editors. Echocardiography in pediatric and adult congenital heart disease. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2010.

Posters and Presentations

Invited Lectures

2019

Natarajan S. “Have QI Metrics Made Your Lab Better?” The American Society of Echocardiography, 30th Annual Scientific Sessions, Portland, OR. June 2019.

Natarajan S. “Building a Comprehensive QI Effort: The CHOP Cardiac Center Experience” Cardiology 2019: 22nd Annual Update of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease: Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions, Huntington Beach, CA. Feb 2019.

2018

Natarajan S. "Pediatric Hypertension and the 2017 Guidelines", Center City Pediatrics, Philadelphia, PA. Aug 2018.

Natarajan S. "Optimizing Perioperative Care for patients Undergoing Norwood Operation”, Surgical and ICU Learning Lab Webinar, NPCQIC. Feb 2018.

Natarajan S. "Advanced Imaging in Specific Condition: Tetralogy of Fallot and Truncus Arteriosus". Cardiology 2018: 21st Annual Update on Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease: Effective teams, Improving Outcomes, Scottsdale, AZ. Feb 2018.

Natarajan S. "Quality Improvement in Congenital Heart Care", Cardiology 2018: 21st Annual Update on Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease: Effective teams, Improving Outcomes, Scottsdale, AZ. Feb 2018.

Natarajan S. "Understanding the Benefits and Limitations of Echocardiography for the Frontline Provider", Cardiology 2018: 21st Annual Update on Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease: Effective teams, Improving Outcomes, Scottsdale, AZ. Feb 2018.

2017

Natarajan S. "Pediatric Echo Jeopardy, Team Millennial Participant", The American Society of Echocardiography, 28th Annual Scientific Sessions, Baltimore, MD. June 2017