Joseph R. Cava, MD, PhD 

Titles
Pediatric cardiologist, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; associate professor, Pediatric Cardiology, and director, Cardiac MRI Program, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Division
Cardiology

Research interests
Heart disease

Study interests
Cardiac critical care, pediatric cardiology, magnetic resonance imaging.

Education
Doctorate, Marquette University, Milwaukee, 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.

Representative publications

• Ghanayem NS, Jaquiss RD, Cava JR, Frommelt PC, Mussatto KA, Hoffman GM, Tweddell JS. Right Ventricle-to-Pulmonary Artery Conduit versus Blalock-Taussig Shunt: a Hemodynamic Comparison.  Ann Thorac Surgery. 2006; 82:1603-1609.
• Johnson BA, Hoffman GM, Tweddell JS, Cava JR, Basir M, Mitchell ME, Scanlon MC, Mussatto, KA, Ghanayem NS. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Neonates before Palliation of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.  Ann Thorac Surgery 2009; 87:571-579.
• Kutty S, Cava JR, Frommelt MA. Idiopathic Infantile Arterial Calcification: A Case Report of Prenatal and Postnatal Echocardiographic Diagnosis. Echocardiography. 2009.
• LaDisa J, Cava J, Dholakia R, Wendell D, Krolikowski M, Samyn M. Computational Simulations from Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveal Altered Hemodynamics in Coarctation Patients Previously Treated by Patch Aortoplasty. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2009; 11:P211.
• Ghanayem NS, Hoffman GM, Mussatto KA, Frommelt MA, Cava JR, Mitchell ME, Tweddel JS. Perioperative Monitoring in High-risk Infants after Stage 1 Palliation of Univentricular congenital Heart Disease.  J Thorac Cardiovasc Surgery. 2010.

Contact
Herma Heart Center
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
PO Box 1997
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1997
Phone: (414) 266-6457
E-mail: jrc@mcw.edu