New Technology for Young Hearts BY MARYANN BR INLEY
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s a young pediatric cardiologist who specializes in imaging, Kanwal M. Farooqi, MD, has the utmost respect for her mentors. A 2007 graduate
of New York Medical College, Dr. Farooqi spent six years training in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. Then she spent a year at Mount Sinai Medical Center completing a non-invasive imaging fellowship learning about imaging technologies including cardiac magnetic resonance (MRI) and the “mainstay of diagnostic imaging in pediatric cardiology,” 2 dimensional (2D) echocardiography. “I have had wonderful mentors, some of the greatest out there,” she insists.
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