Medical Director, Pediatric Cardiac Imaging, Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital

I am a board-certified pediatric cardiologist with training in advanced cardiac imaging/cardiac MRI, and the medical director of Pediatric Cardiac imaging at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital.

I perform cardiac MRIs and echocardiograms on pediatric patients with a variety of congenital and acquired heart diseases. I have also introduced newly developed cardiac MRI sequences only performed in a few pediatric hospitals across the country, including the stress-perfusion cardiac MRI, at Joe DiMaggio.

As an imaging cardiologist, I get to help identify anatomic problems in a child's heart. This information and the images I capture help us to guide the medical management and also provide a better understanding for surgeons planning a procedure.

At Memorial, we work as a team to support and care for children and their families. Our goal is always to try to resolve the health concerns of a child, in turn improving their quality of life and that of their family.

Hospital Affiliations

• Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital
• Memorial Hospital Miramar
• Memorial Hospital West
• Memorial Regional Hospital

Gender

• Male

Languages

• Spanish
• Portuguese

Education

Instituto Superior De Ciencias Medicas De Villa Cl, 1996

Internships

University Of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, 2011, Pediatrics

Residency

New York Presbyterian Hospital, 2012, Pediatrics

Fellowships

University Of Minnesota, 2015, Pediatric Cardiology

Certifications

American Board of Pediatrics-Pediatric Cardiology
American Board of Pediatrics-Pediatrics

Publications

• View Dr. Lazaro Hernandez's publications on PubMed

Editorial Positions

• Reviewer: Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Imaging: 2016-present.
• Reviewer: Journal of Society of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging: 2016-present.
• Reviewer: Cardiology in the Young: 2015-present.

Research

• 4D flow in Fontan Patients. A cardiac MRI study.
• Enduring Heart Grant: Cardiac MRI Assessment of Rejection and Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients.
• Does myocardial scarring identify patients at risk in childhood hypertrophic cardiomyopathy? A multicenter study

Professional Organizations

• American College of Cardiology
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American Society of Echocardiography
• Society of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Presentations

• Regadenoson-induced microvascular dysfunction in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Society of Cardiac MRI meeting. Washington 2017.
• Synthetic hematocrit derived from the longitudinal relaxation of blood can lead to clinically significant errors in measurement of extracellular volume fraction in pediatric and young adult patients. Society of Cardiac MRI meeting. Washington 2017.
• Global left ventricular relaxation: a useful predictive echocardiographic marker of heart transplant rejection and recovery in children. ASE meeting. Seattle 2016.
• Total Lymphoid Irradiation to Successfully Treat Refractory Rejection in Heart Transplant Recipients. Poster Presentation 35th Annual Meeting of ISHLT, April 2015, Nice, France.
• Global Left Ventricular Relaxation. A Novel tissue Doppler Index of acute ejection in Pediatric Heart Transplantation. Oral presentation 34th Annual Meeting of ISHLT, April 2014, San Diego, CA, USA.
• Impact of Cardiac MRI in the Instruction of Left Ventricular Assessment by 3D Echocardiography. Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, Columbia University, New York. Poster Presentation at 24th Annual Echo Hawaii-ASE, January 20-24, 2014.2013.

Awards

• Fellow investigator award. University of Minnesota 2015
• Young investigator award. American Society of Echocardiography 2016