Pediatric Cardiology

Provides complete pediatric cardiology services.

Specialties and Programs:

• Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program- helps pediatric patients transition to adult care
• Aortopathy Program
• Cardiac Genetics Program
• Cardiomyopathy Program
• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Electrophysiology Program
• Fetal Heart Program
• Heart Transplant and Heart Failure Program
• High Risk Clinic
• Interventional Cardiology Catheterization (Cath Lab)
• Neurodevelopmental Program
• Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program
• Single Ventricle Survivorship Clinic

Conditions and Treatments:

• Assessment of murmurs
• EKG disturbances
• Echo evaluations
• Complex catheterization cases
• EP studies
• Ablations
• Cardiac transplantation

Additional outreach clinics throughout the states of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Alaska.

For appointments or referrals, call 801-213-3599 and choose option #1, then ask to speak with the Referral Team. This will give you the most comprehensive and coordinated experience.

Adam Ware, MD- Director of Inpatient Cardiology

• Specializes in the care of children and adolescents with congenital heart disease, cholesterol disorders, dyslipidemia and other genetic and acquired heart diseases. Also provides care at outreach clinics in Logan, Layton, Riverton, and St. George.

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services.

Provides comprehensive consultative and on-going care (if desired by referring provider or patient) for adults with all disorders of lipid metabolism. This clinic focuses on:

- All patterns of high cholesterol and high triglycerides.
- Very low lipid levels, particularly HDL-cholesterol below 20 mg/dL or triglycerides below 50 mg/dL posing diagnostic and treatment challenges.
- Lipid Disorders in special populations: extended kindred lacking diagnosis, lipodystrophy, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, pregnancy, young adult.
- Severe insulin resistance (using over 300 units of insulin daily), requiring search for rare causes, advanced polypharmacy, or both; with counseling from on-site Certified Diabetes Educators.

Amnon Schlegel, MD, PhD, Director, specialist in Adult Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes.

To set up a consult, refer a patient, or for more information, please contact Jamie Smith.

Services include:

• Pediatric Cardiology
• Pediatric Diabetes
• Pediatric Endocrine
• Pediatric Gastroenterology
• Pediatric Neurology
• Pediatric Surgery

Provides assessment, guidance and resources for children born with complex congenital heart disease. HCNP is a longitudinal program that starts while the infant is in the hospital. Patients are seen as part of a longitudinal program starting inpatient at infancy, at 12-24 months, at 3-6 years, and 9-12 years.

High risk conditions include: cyanotic heart disease; open heart surgery as a newborn, other risk factors combined with heart disease including prematurity, ECMO, genetic syndrome, seizures, heart transplant and history of cardiac arrest.

HCNP clinics are held twice a month. Assessments can take up to 4 hours.

For severe or difficult-to-manage dyslipidemias. To supplement medical lipid evaluation and treatment, offers expert dietary consultations. In addition to LDL apheresis, we offer advanced medical treatment for severe hypercholesterolemia, severe hypertriglyceridemia, and statin intolerance.

Eliot A Brinton, MD, FAHA, FNLA, President and Director

Utah Lipid Center AKA The Intermountain Lipid Center