Echocardiography and Imaging

The echocardiography laboratory of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania performs transthoracic, transesophageal and stress echocardiograms in inpatients and outpatients.

Echocardiograms are indicated for a variety of cardiovascular diseases and echocardiography is a cornerstone of the diagnosis and monitoring of these diseases. The goals of the echocardiography laboratory of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania are

1. to deliver excellence in echocardiography, constantly improving our technological and medical knowledge 
2. to keep abreast of all innovations of the field
3. to provide patients, sonographers, medical students, residents, fellows and providers an up to date and detailed education in echocardiography
4. to promote research efforts improving and using echocardiography
5. to connect integrate echocardiography with other forms of imaging to enable the best patient care and research

Section Leadership

Marielle Scherrer-Crosbie, MD, PhD
Director, Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory
Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

• Assistant to Marielle Scherrer-Crosbie, MD, PhD

Paco E. Bravo, MD
Director of Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging

• Valerie Kenner
  Assistant to Paco E. Bravo, MD

Section Faculty and Staff

• Tiffany Chen, MD
  • Melissa Messinger
    Assistant to Tiffany Chen, MD
• Julio Alonso Chirinos, MD, PHD
  Associate Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
  • Joanna Acosta
    Assistant to Julio Alonso Chirinos, MD, PHD
• Victor A. Ferrari, MD
  Professor of Medicine and Radiology at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
  • Assistant to Victor Ferrari, MD
• Dinesh H. Jagasia, MD
  Professor of Clinical Medicine; Associate Director, Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory
  Director, TAVR CT Program
  • Assistant to Dinesh Jagasia, MD
• Bonnie Ky, MD, MSCE
  Scientific Director, Cardio-Oncology
  Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
  • Joanna Acosta
    Assistant to Bonnie Ky, MD, MSCE
• Harold Litt, MD
  Division Chief, Cardiothoracic Imaging
  Associate Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  Associate Professor of Radiology in Medicine
  • Tracy Jenkins
    Assistant to Harold Litt, MD
• David McCarthy, MD
  Director of Nuclear Cardiology
  Associate Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Geri McCausland
    Assistant to David McCarthy, MD
• Frank Silvestry, MD
  Associate Chief for Education, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
  Associate Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
  • Melissa Messinger
    Assistant to Frank Silvestry, MD

Echocardiography and Imaging Resources

• Penn Center for Quantitative Echocardiography 
• American Society of Echocardiography
• American College of Cardiology, Imaging Section
• What is Echocardiography? (American Heart Association)