Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Fetal Echocardiography; Co-coursemaster, Pediatric Clerkship; Co-coursemaster of Women and Children's Health Clerkship

• Cardiology
• Patient Oriented Research

Education

• B.A., Creighton Univ., Omaha, Ne.
• M.D., St. Louis University School of Medicine

Training

• Pediatric Internship, Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, St. Louis, Mo.
• Pediatric Resident, Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, St. Louis, Mo.
• Pediatric Cardiology Fellow, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.

Licensure and Board Certification

• American Board of Pediatrics
• American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-Board of Pediatric Cardiology

Honors

• Young Investigator Award, North American Society of Pediatric Exercise Medicine, 1992
• Trainee Investigator Award, American Federation of Clinical Research, 1994
• Outstanding Teacher Award, Dept of Pediatrics, St Louis Children's Hospital, 1999
• Samuel L. Goldstein Leadership Award in Medical Student Education, 2001

Clinical and Research Interests

• Fetal echocardiography
• Echocardiography
• Heart health for children

Selected Publications

1. Bae KT, Hong C, Takahashi N, Gutierrez F, Sharkey A, Hirsch R, Canter CE: Brief Communication, Multi-detector row CT angiography in pediatric heart transplant recipients, initial observations. Transplantation 2004; 77(4):599-602.

2. David T. Balzer, Mark Johnson, Sharkey A, Henry Kort: Transcatheter Occlusion of Baffle Leaks Following Atrial Switch Procedures for Transposition of the Great Vessels. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions 2004; 61:157-162.

3. Kort, HW, Sharkey A, Balzer, DT: Case Reports, Novel use of the amplatzer duct occluder to close perivalvar leak involving a prosthetic mitral valve. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions 2004; 61(4):548-551.

4. Raman V, Kim J, Sharkey A, Chatila T: Response of refractory Kawasaki disease to pulse steroid and cyclosprin a therapy. Pediatric Infect Dis 2001; 20(6):635-637.

5. Benson DW, Sharkey A, Fatkin D, Lang P, Basson CT, McDonough B, Strauss AW, Seidman JG, Seidman CE: Reduced penetrance, variable expressivity, and genetic heterogeneity of familial atrial septal defects. Circulation 1998; 97:2043-8.

6. Lanza GM, Wallace KD, Scott MJ, Cacheris WP, Abendschein DR, Christy DH, Sharkey A, Miller JG, Gaffney PJ, Wickline SA: A novel site-targeted ultrasonic contrast agent with broad biomedical application. Circulation 1996; 94:3334-40.