Dr. Rachel D. Torok
Overview
Dr. Rachel Torok is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology. She specializes in noninvasive imaging (transthoracic echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, and fetal echocardiography), inpatient pediatric cardiology care, and aortopathy in children. Dr. Torok earned both her Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees at The Pennsylvania State University, followed by pediatric residency and pediatric cardiology fellowship training at Duke University. During her fellowship, she received an NIH K-12 award for her translational research investigating the molecular mechanisms of thoracic aortic aneurysms, and she stayed on as faculty as the Director of the Duke Pediatric Heart Center Marfan/Aortopathy Clinic as well as the Director of Inpatient Pediatric Cardiology at Duke until her move to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in May of 2020. She now serves as the Director of the Pediatric Connective Tissue Disease/Aortopathy Clinic, one of the four core pediatric cardiology inpatient hospitalists, and a member of the noninvasive imaging and fetal teams at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Torok is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Tetralogy of Fallot. Her top area of expertise is Tetralogy of Fallot.
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Locations
4401 Penn Avenue, Floor 3, Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Pediatric Cardiology In Sewickley
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