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Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker is a pediatrician affiliated with Sibley Memorial Hospital, Holy Cross Hospital and Children’s National Medical Center, where he is the director of outpatient cardiology. He practices out of Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Dr. Becker has an expertise in pediatric cardiology, specifically fetal echocardiogram, fetal magnetic resonance imaging and hypertension. His primary interests include non-invasive cardiac imaging and outpatient cardiology. Dr. Becker earned his medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in pediatrics at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Children’s Hospital National Medical Center. Dr. Becker previously served as a United States Army colonel for 20 years, as well as the chief of pediatrics and the chief of pediatric cardiology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr. Becker is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Cardiology, as well as a member of the North American Society for Cardiac Imaging. Dr. Becker has been named a Super Doctor by the Washington Post Magazine. Dr. Becker has contributed to numerous publications and research. Dr. Becker is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Williams Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm, Interrupted Aortic Arch, Patent Ductus Arteriosus, and Ventricular Septal Defects.

Dr. Ari Cedars is a cardiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. He also serves as director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center at both the Johns Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute and the Blalock-Taussig-Thomas Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center. Dr. Cedars is an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Cedars specializes in adult congenital heart disease. He is a member of the leadership committee for the Advanced Cardiac Therapies Improving Outcomes Network (ACTION), an organization focused on the improvement of outcomes for pediatric ventricular assist device (VAD) patients. He is an administrative board member of the Alliance for Adult Research in Congenital Cardiology (AARCC), a multi-institutional academic research network devoted to producing new research in adult congenital heart disease. He is also a member of the medical advisory board for the Adult Congenital Heart Association (ACHA). Dr. Cedars’ research focuses on patient-centered outcomes, mechanical circulatory support and ventricular assist devices, and the biological mechanisms underlying clinical disease progression in congenital heart disease. Dr. Cedars is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Williams Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), Tetralogy of Fallot, Heart Attack, Apoplexy, and Heart Transplant.

Dr. W. Reid Thompson is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include pediatric cardiology, cardiomyopathy, muscular dystrophy, and echocardiography. Dr. Thompson is a member of the pediatric cardiovascular team at the Heart and Vascular Institute at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Thompson was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina, where he was also Phi Eta Sigma and Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.D. from the Wake Forest University Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He completed his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and performed a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at The Children’s Hospital – Harvard Medical School. Dr. Thompson's research interests include evaluation of ventricular function in patients with muscular dystrophy, Barth syndrome, and status post chemotherapy. He also studies novel methods of teaching and diagnosing heart disease through cardiac auscultation. Dr. Thompson is a physician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital as well as the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He was awarded an Individual National Research Service Award by the National Institutes of Health. He was also an American Heart Association Bugher Fellow and a Child Health Research Center New Program Development Awardee. Dr. Thompson is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Williams Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Barth Syndrome, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Tetralogy of Fallot, and Ventricular Septal Defects.