Joseph R. Cava, MD, PhD 

Pediatric Cardiology

Title: Pediatric cardiologist, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; assistant professor, Pediatric Cardiology, director, Cardiac MRI Program, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Education: Doctorate, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis., 1988; medical degree, Loyola University, Maywood, Ill., 1994; post doctorate, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1990; residency, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1997; fellowship, Hope Children's Hospital and the Heart Institute of Children, Oak Lawn, Ill., 2000; fellowship, The Children's Hospital, Boston, 2005.

Honors: Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Scholarship, 1994; Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, 1994; Medical College of Wisconsin Larrie B. Sarff Memorial Resident Teaching Award, 1997; Medical College of Wisconsin Senior Resident Pediatric Emergency Medicine Award, 1997.

Research interests: Pediatrics, pediatric cardiology, cardiac critical care, magnetic resonance imaging.

Representative publications:

• Cava JR, Bevandic SM, Steltzer MM, Tweddell JS. A Medical Strategy to Reduce Persistent Chest Tube Drainage after the Fontan Operation. American Journal of Cardiology. 2005; 96:130-133.
• Berens RJ, Stuth EA, Hoffman GM, Robertson FA, Troshynski TJ, Staudt SR, Cava JR, Jaquiss, RDB, Tweddell JS, Litwin SB. Near Infrared Spectroscopy Monitoring During Pediatric Aortic Coarctation Repair. Pediatric Anesthesia. 2006; 16:77-81.
• Zangwill S, Cava JR, Brown M, Segura A. Marfan Syndrome Type II: There's More to Marfan Syndrome than Filbrillin 1. Congenital Heart Disease. In press.
• Jaquiss RDB, Siehr SL, Ghanayem NS, Hoffman GM, Fedderly RT, Cava JR, Mussatto KA, Tweddell JS. Early Avopulmonary Anastomosis after Norwood Procedure Results in Excellent Fontan Outcome. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2006; 82:1603-1610.
• Sachdeva R, Fiser R, Morrow WR, Cava JR, Ghanyem NS, Jaquiss RDB. Rupture of the Tricuspid Papillary Muscle: A Treatable Cause of Neonatal Cyanosis. Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 2007; 83:680-82.

Contact information: Herma Heart Center, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, PO Box 1997, Milwaukee, WI 53227. Phone: (414) 266-6457. E-mail: jrc@mcw.edu.