Dr. Brenda Mendizabal
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Brenda Mendizabal, MD, is Director of Preventive Cardiology at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology. Dr. Mendizabal earned her medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine. She completed her residency at Children’s National Medical Center – George Washington University and then went on to complete a cardiology fellowship at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She also completed a preventive cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, the only fellowship training program in the subspecialty of pediatric preventative cardiology in the entire country. Dr. Mendizabal trained as a preventive cardiologist under an American Heart Association grant that is studying how hypertension (HTN) is diagnosed in pediatric patients and at what levels or ranges patients acquire end organ damage as a result. Dr. Mendizabal’s main interests include pediatric dyslipidemias, pediatric hypertension, as well as caring for children at risk for the development of early cardiovascular disease. In collaboration with colleagues from endocrinology, nephrology, adult lipidology, weight management, and the Heart Institute itself, she has been able to organize and coalesce the clinical and research efforts for preventive cardiology. She is a member of the National Lipid Association Pediatric Atherosclerosis Prevention and Lipidology (PedAL) Workgroup, the American Society of Preventive Cardiology, and the American Heart Association Cardiovascular Disease in the Young (CVDY) Committee, and the American Heart Association Atherosclerosis, Hypertension, Obesity in the Young (AHOY) Committee. Dr. Mendizabal is happily married and has two young children. She enjoys running, kickboxing, and traveling with her family. View the full list of Dr. Mendizabal’s publications on PubMed.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 6 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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865 Eisenhower Boulevard, Johnstown, PA 15904
2599 Wexford Bayne Road, Sewickley, PA 15143
4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224
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