Vivek Allada, MD
Vivek Allada, MD

Vivek Allada, MD

Vivek Allada, MD, is the Medical Director of Outpatient and Community Cardiology, Associate Chief of Cardiology, and Director of Strategic Operations and Senior Medical Director of the Cardiac Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Locations: Main Building


215-590-4040

267-426-9600

About Vivek Allada, MD

Titles

Medical Director of Outpatient and Community Cardiology

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Certifications

Pediatric Cardiology – American Board of Pediatrics

Pediatrics – American Board of Pediatrics

Awards and Honors

2012 - 2018, Best Doctors in America, Woodward/White Inc

2012 - 2018, Top Doctors - Pittsburgh Magazine

2017 – 2018, Frank LeMoyne Society

Leadership and Memberships

1992 – Present, Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP)
1994 – Present, Fellow, American College of Cardiology, fellow (FACC)
2000 – Present, Member, American Society of Echocardiography
2004 – Present, Member, American Academic of Pediatrics, Section on Cardiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery
2010 – Present, Member, Adult Congenital Heart Association
2011 – Present, Member of C-PELP, Committee of Academic Pediatric Echo Lab Directors, ASE
2014 – Present, Member, Pennsylvania Department of Health Newborn Screening and Follow-up Technical Advisory Board
2015 – Present, Chair, subcommittee on Critical Congenital Heart Disease for the Pennsylvania Department of Health Newborn Screening and Follow-up Technical Advisory Board.
2013 – Present, Member, ACC/ACPC Non-Invasive Imaging Quality Metric committee
2013 – 2017, Committee member/Consultant, Optum Health Committee on Management of Patients with Congenital Heart Disease
2018-2020, Pennsylvania Pediatric Health Network (PPHN) (Board Member 2018-Present)

Education & training

Medical Degree

MD - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Internship

Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Residency

Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 

Fellowship

Pediatric Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Team affiliations

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Publications

Books

Book Chapters

2017

Beerman L, Kreutzer J, Allada V: Cardiology in Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis, Seventh Edition. Ed. Zitelli BJ, McIntyre S, Nowalk A, Philadelphia PA, Elsevier, (2017).

2016

Drant S, Allada V: Book Chapter; Echocardiography lab productivity in “Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease: From Fetus to Adult”, ed. Lai W, Mertens L, Cohen M, Geva T: Oxford, UK, Wiley-Blackwell, pg 19-30, 2016.