Catherine Ikemba, MD

Assistant Professor
Pediatrics

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

catherine.ikemba@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-730-KIDS (5437).

Biography

My current interests are in building our Fetal Cardiology program at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas including prenatal diagnosis, treatment and counseling. We hope to be among the forerunners in fetal intervention. I spent a fourth year of fellowship training specializing in Perinatal Cardiology and three years of Cardiology Fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Pediatric residency training was at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY and medical school was at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Education

FellowshipTexas Children's Hospital (2003)
FellowshipTexas Children's Hospital (2003)
ResidencyAlbert Einstein Coll. Hosp. (1999)
Medical SchoolUniversity of Southern California (1996)

Research Interests

Transthoracic vs transesophageal imaging of the atrial septum in the pediatric population

Publications

Noninvasive Perinatal Cardiology, Part 1, Prenatal Interventions

Ikemba CM , Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas , September 2008; (Third Quarter)

Fetal rhabdomyoma causing postnatal critical left ventricular outflow tract obstruction

Ikemba CM, Eidem BW, Dimas VV, O’Day MP, Fraser CD Jr. , Annals of Thoracic Surgery , October 2005; (80(4)):1529

Acute Adaptation to Volume Unloading of the Functional Single Ventricle in Children Undergoing Bidirectional Glenn Anastomosis.

Ikemba CM, Lemler M, Roi L, Su JT, Bezold LI, Chang A, McKenzie ED, Fraser CD Jr. , Congential Heart Disease , 2009; (4):76-80

Mitral valve morphology and morbidity/mortality in Shone’s Compex

Ikemba CM, Eidem BW, Fraley JK, Eapen RS, Pignatelli R, Ayres NA, Bezold Ll , The American Journal of Cardiology , 2005; (95):541-543

Myocardial performance index with sevoflurane/pancuronium versus fentanyl/midazolam/pancuronium in infants with a functional single ventricle

Ikemba CM, Su JT, Stayer SA, Miller-Hance WC, Eidem BW, Bezold LI, Hall SR, Havemann LM, Andropoulos DB , Anesthesiology , 2004; (101):1298-1305

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Academy of Pediatrics

American College of Cardiology

American Heart Association

American Society of Echocardiography