Rachel Jana Shustak, MD
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
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.
Qualifications and experience
- Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology
- American Academy of Pediatrics, National
- American Heart Association, National
- NPC-QIC (National Pediatric Cardiology-Quality Improvement Collaborative), National
- NPC-QIC (National Pediatric Cardiology-Quality Improvement Collaborative), National
- PAC3 (Pediatric Acute Care Cardiology Collaborative), National
- SV-ONE (Single Ventricle Outcomes Network), National
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