Dr. Chalese K. Richardson-Olivier

Chalese K. Richardson-Olivier, MD, is Director, Pediatric Electrophysiology and Program Fellowship Director, Pediatric Cardiology at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Richardson has clinical interest in arrhythmias and conduction disorders in pediatric patients and in patients with congenital heart disease. She also manages patients with implantable cardiac devices, inherited channelopathies and sudden cardiac death syndromes, and patients requiring electrophysiology studies and cardiac ablation. After receiving her Bachelor of Science in biomedical education in 2011 from the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, Dr. Richardson attended Albany Medical College, earning her Doctor of Medicine in 2013. She began her postgraduate training at Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, completing her general pediatrics residency in 2016. She then pursued a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NY, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons as a clinical fellow from 2016 to 2018, then was Chief Fellow until 2019. In 2020, Dr. Richardson completed a pediatric electrophysiology fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Philadelphia.

Dr. Richardson-Olivier is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Fainting, Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia (IST), Familial Ventricular Tachycardia, and Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome.

Dr. Richardson-Olivier is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics. She is actively involved in clinical research, co-authoring 1 peer reviewed article. Dr. Richardson-Olivier is currently accepting new patients.