Meet the team: children's cardiac
Cardiologists
Dr Satish Adwani (Oxford)
Dr Adwani is a paediatric cardiologist with an interest in heart muscle disease and adult congenital heart disease.
Dr Tara Bharucha
Dr Bharucha is a paediatric cardiologist with a sub-specialty interest in transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography. She is a research lead for the department of congenital cardiology.
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Dr James Gnanapragasam
Dr Gnanapragasam is a paediatric cardiologist and clinical director of children's cardiac services.
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Dr Nicholas Hayes
Dr Hayes is a paediatric cardiologist with with a sub-specialty interest in interventional cardiology. He performs weekly cardiac catheter sessions in paediatric and adult congenital intervention, and holds general paediatric cardiology outpatient clinics in Southampton, Yeovil and Portsmouth.
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Dr Alan Magee
Dr Magee is a paediatric cardiologist.
Dr Trevor Richens
Dr Richens is a congenital cardiologist with a sub-specialty interest in catheter intervention. He is the lead for congenital cardiac catheter intervention, and a specialist in all forms of congenital catheter intervention from birth to old age.
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Dr Kevin Roman
Dr Roman is a paediatric cardiologist with a sub-specialty interest in fetal cardiology, cardiac MRI, 3D echocardiography, and transesophageal echocardiography. He has extensive experience in general paediatrics.
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Dr Shankar Sadagopan
Dr Sadagopan is a consultant paediatric cardiologist who joined the Trust in May 2016.
He has a particular interest in the management of heart rhythm disturbances in children using device based therapy (for example pacemakers) and ablation based treatment.
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Cardiac surgeons
Mr Markku Kaarne
Mr Kaarne is a paediatric cardiac surgeon with a sub-specialty interest in congenital cardiology and aortic surgery.
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Mr Michael Lavrsen
Mr Lavrsen is a paediatric and adult cardiac surgeon with a sub-specialty interest in neonatal cardiac surgery. His research interests include valve replacement and cardiopulmonary bypass strategies in patients with congenital heart disease.
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Mr Nicola Viola
Mr Viola is a cardiothoracic surgeon with a sub-specialty interest in paediatric and adult congenital cardiac surgery. He is the surgical lead and certified specialist for the extracorporeal life support (ECLS) program.
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Other specialist staff
Paediatric cardiac nurse specialists
- Gill Harte, Colette Cochran and Cate Anson (Southampton) - 023 8120 4659
- Kathy Lurcook and Georgie Stepney (Oxford) - 01865 234985
Advanced nurse practitioners
- Doreen MacPhail
- Katy Stimson
Senior ward sister
Network manager
The team also includes
- cardiology ward doctors and nurses
- paediatric intensive care doctors and nurses
- cardiac anaesthetists.