Dr. Adam B. Christopher

Adam Christopher, MD, is a pediatric cardiologist and is certified in cardiovascular disease and pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics. He is the director of cardiac MRI and CT at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed his pediatrics residency at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital followed by his cardiology fellowship at UPMC Children’s. He also completed an advanced imaging fellowship at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Dr. Christopher’s clinical interests include non-invasive 3-dimensional imaging of complex congenital heart disease, and his research interests include novel MRI techniques to minimize the need for sedation as well as to better visualize complex flow patterns in congenital heart disease. He has published work in multiple respected cardiovascular imaging journals and is a member of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. Dr. Christopher lives in Allison Park with his wife and two children. View the full list of Dr. Christopher’s publications on PubMed.

Dr. Christopher is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pulmonary Atresia. His top areas of expertise are Ebstein's Anomaly, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), and Tetralogy of Fallot.

His clinical research consists of co-authoring 42 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 1 article in the study of Pulmonary Atresia.