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Home » Medical Staff » Cardiology » Ellini, Ahmad R. MD

Dr. Ahmad R. Ellini, Pediatric Cardiology

Ahmad Ellini CHOC Specialists Logo

Ahmad Ellini, MD

is on staff at
CHOC Hospital Orange | CHOC Mission Hospital

Office Phone:
714-509-3939

Appointments:
888-770-2462

Specialty:
Cardiology

Board Certified:
Pediatrics, Cardiology

Languages:
Farsi

Dr. Ahmad Ellini is a board certified pediatric cardiologist. He has privileges at CHOC Hospital and CHOC at Mission Hospital.

Location

CHOC Specialists, Cardiology
505 S Main St, Suite 600
Orange, CA 92868
Appointments: 888-770-2462
Office: 714-509-3939

Education

  • Medical School
    Eastern Virginia School of Medicine, Norfolk, VA
  • Pediatrics Residency
    Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship
    Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    University of Maryland School of Medicine

Honors and Awards

  • 2009 – Pediatric Academic Society Young Investigator’s Travel Award, Society for Pediatric Research

Professional Organizations

  • American Academy of Pediatrics

Published Works

5/2/2009 A Novel Mouse Mutation Causing Transposition of the Great Arteries and Heterotaxy, Oral Abstract, Pediatric Academic Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

6/8/2009 Analysis of Complex Structural Heart Defects in a Heterotaxy Mutant Mouse Model Using High Resolution Episcopic Fluorescence Image Capture, Poster Presentation, American Society of Echocardiography, Washington, DC.

11/2011 Improvement in Cardiac Strain Rate in Children on Chronic Hemodialysis after Carnitine Supplementation Poster Presentation, American Society of Nephrology, Philadelphia, PA.

Our cardiologists commonly treat:
  • Aortic stenosis
  • Arrhythmias
  • Atrial septal defect
  • Atrioventricular canal defect
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Chest pain
  • Coarctation of the aorta
  • Dyslipidemia
  • Heart failure
  • Heart murmurs
  • Hypertension (high blood pressure)
  • Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
  • Kawasaki disease
  • Lymphatic disorders
  • Palpitations
  • Patent ductus arteriosus
  • Pulmonary artery stenosis
  • Pulmonary atresia
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Syncope (fainting)
  • Tetralogy of Fallot
  • Transposition of the great arteries (vessels)
  • Truncus arteriosus
  • Vascular anomalies
  • Ventricular septal defect.

Ahmad Ellini, MD in the News

Collaborative effort involving milestone procedure saves premature baby with complex heart disease

Healthcare

Collaborative effort involving milestone procedure saves premature baby with complex heart disease

Thanks to CHOC’s expertise, baby Hope overcame the odds stacked against her after being born at 31 weeks and weighing just 2 pounds.

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