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Biographical Sketch
Lourdes R. Prieto, MD joined the staff of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 1996 as a pediatric cardiologist with subspecialization in catheter intervention for children and adults with congenital heart disease. She is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and Director of the Pediatric Catheterization Laboratory at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins Medical School. She completed her internship and residency in Pediatrics at Babies and Children's Hospital of Columbia University in New York. She also completed her fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at Babies and Children's Hospital of Columbia University. She sought additional subspecialty training in interventional cardiac catheterization in children and adults with congenital heart disease at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation between 1994 and 1996. She is board certified in Pediatric Cardiology.
Dr. Prieto has published in several peer-reviewed medical journals and has written several chapters in her area of expertise. She is the principal investigator of several studies using catheter based treatment for congenital heart defects, including closure of holes in the heart with percutaneous devices or use of special stents to relief a congenitally narrow aorta. She has nationally recognized expertise in the catheter treatment of an acquired form of pulmonary vein stenosis, and has been invited to publish and speak nationally on this subject. She has been listed as Best Doctors in Cleveland and Best Doctors in America (2007 - 2011).
Specialty Interests
Interventional catheterization in children and adults with congenital heart disease, congenital and acquired pulmonary vein stenosis, general pediatric cardiology
Additional Training
Advanced post fellowship training in interventional catheterization in children and adults with congenital heart disease, Cleveland Clinic Foundation 1995 - 1996 (clinical associate appointment during training).
Memberships
Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions
American College of Cardiology
American Heart Association
Industry Relationships
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