Rachel Jana Shustak, MD

Pediatric Cardiology
Independent provider
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
CHOP Specialty Care, Lancaster

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

My education and training

  • Medical School: New York University School of Medicine
  • Residency: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.

Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Lancaster General Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Shustak is an independent physician who is not employed by Penn Medicine.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Wright LK, Cabrera AG, Carrillo SA, Cua CL, Davis JA, Shustak RJ, Texter K, Nandi D. Single Ventricle Infant Deaths Without Transplant Referral: Room for Improvement? , Pediatr Cardiol: 2026


Vaiyani D, Gupta M, DeWitt AG, Shustak R, Favilla E, Pinto E, Biroc L, Yowell M, Dori Y, Smith CL. Lymphatic Complications in Congenital Heart Disease , Semin Roentgenol: 2026


Bainton J, Trachtenberg FL, Freemon D, Fremed MA, Klingman E, Lambert LM, McCrary AW, McCrindle BW, Rathge K, Sadhwani A, Segar DE, Shustak RJ, Sood E, Uzark K, Votava-Smith JK, Woodard Kline F, Mussatto KA. Stress, coping, protective factors, and quality of life in parents of infants with CHD: associations with state anxiety , Cardiol Young, 36: 2026,1-15


Rachel Shustak, Janani Ramachandran, Jeritt Thayer, Lisa Mitchell, Sumekala Nadaraj, Ramiro Lizano Santamaria, Amy Schultz, Vivekanand Allada, and Brian Jenssen Introducing an Electronic Health Record-Linked System for Parental Tobacco Treatment in Outpatient Pediatric Cardiology Clinic , Circulation, 152(Suppl_3): 2025


Radhika Rastogi, Bari Zweben, Jeremiah Joyce, Rachel Shustak, Matthew Schreier, Erin Pinto, RN, Christopher Smith, Yoav Dori, Aaron DeWitt, Chitra Ravishankar, David Biko, Danish Vaiyani, David Goldberg, and Mudit Gupta Invasive Hemodynamic and MRI Predictors of High Risk Lymphatic Subtype T2-Weighted Pre-Fontan MRI and Associated Clinical Outcomes , Circulation, 152(Suppl_3): 2025


Dori Y, Pinto E, Biroc L, Gillespie MJ, Callahan R, Tang J, O'Byrne ML, Ford B, Vaiyani D, DeWitt AG, Merrill D, Shinde D, Favilla E, Shustak R, Escobar FA, Krishnamurthy G, Srinivasan A, Rome JJ, Smith CL. Percutaneous Thoracic Duct Externalization and Autotransfusion in Patients With Lymphatic Failure Due to Elevated Central Venous Pressure , Circ Cardiovasc Interv: 2025


Shustak RJ, Perlstein A, Artis AS, Tomlinson AZ, Tam V, Martino G, Brothers JA Health Disparities in Diagnosis and Treatment of Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia , Journal of Pediatrics, 281: 2025


Ilana Schwartz, Jan Leonard, Alexis Zavez, Luma Essaid, Alyson Stagg, Chitra Ravishankar, Therese Giglia, Monique Gardner, Rachel Shustak Brain natriuretic Peptide is Not Predictive of Days Alive and Out of Hospital During the Interstage Period in Infants with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome , Circulation, 150(Suppl_1): 2024


Shustak RJ, Perlstein A, Artis AS, Tomlinson AZ, Tam V, Martino G, Brothers JA Disparities in Diagnosis and Treatment of Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia , Circulation, 150(Suppl_1): 2024


Shustak RJ, Rossano JW. Visceral Adiposity-A Novel Early-Life Risk Factor for Preclinical Atherosclerosis in Adolescence , JAMA Netw Open, 7(1): 2024,e2434648