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Dr. Jeremy Ringewald is fellowship trained in pediatric and congenital interventional cardiology, is board certified in pediatric cardiology and is with BayCare Medical Group in Tampa Bay, Florida, where he sees patients from birth throughout adulthood. Before joining BayCare Medical Group, he practiced at Pediatric Cardiology Associates, was on the faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina (2004-09) in Charleston, South Carolina, and was on the faculty at the Children’s Hospital at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center (2001-04) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Dr. Ringewald earned a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Illinois in Chicago, Illinois, and performed a pediatric internship and residency at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital/Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He completed a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Children’s Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, and a pediatric interventional cardiology fellowship at Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.Dr. Ringewald was the first pediatric interventional cardiologist in Oklahoma and the first in the state to close an atrial septal defect and a ventricular septal defect without open-heart surgery. At the Medical University of South Carolina, he served as co-director of the cardiac catheterization labs and director of the heart transplant program. While there, Dr. Ringewald contributed to several U.S. FDA clinical trials testing new devices and new medications in the catheterization lab. He has performed over 6,000 cardiac catheterizations and is a national leader in the field. Dr. Ringewald is a consultant for several medical industry vendors and teaches other physicians to perform the procedures he helped pioneer. He’s also an experienced researcher and has published numerous articles in medical journals.A few of the interventional program milestones achieved under Dr. Ringewald’s leadership at St. Joseph’s Hospital include many first applications, such as the Medtronic/Melody transcatheter pulmonary valve in Tampa Bay, the Edwards/Sapien transcatheter pulmonary valve in central Florida, the Gore/Cardioform ASD device in Florida, the Abbott/Piccolo device implant in a NICU premie in Tampa Bay, the Medtronic/Harmony transcatheter pulmonary valve in Florida, a Renata/Minima infant stent in the Southeastern U.S., and the world’s leading implanter of Alterra/Sapien transcatheter pulmonary valves in 2023.\xa0Dr. Ringewald educates his patients and their families about their unique cardiac conditions and includes them when developing the most viable treatment plan. He’s a Fellow of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions. Dr. Ringewald has served as the director of the cardiac catheterization labs at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital for over 10 years. He’s affiliated with St. Joseph’s Hospital, St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital and many other hospitals throughout Tampa Bay. Dr. Ringewald is highly rated in 27 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Pulmonary Valve Stenosis, Tetralogy of Fallot, Pulmonary Supravalvular Stenosis, and Double Inlet Left Ventricle. Dr. Ringewald is board certified in AB Pediatrics (Pediatric Cardiology).

Dr. Suying Lam Barriga is board certified in pediatrics, pediatric cardiology and adult congenital heart disease and is with BayCare Medical Group in Tampa Bay, Florida, where she sees patients from birth throughout adulthood. Before joining BayCare Medical Group, she practiced at Pediatric Cardiology Associates. Dr. Lam Barriga earned a Doctor of Medicine from the Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil in Guayaquil, Ecuador, performed a pediatric internship and residency at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, New York, and completed a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Jackson Memorial Hospital/Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami, Florida. Dr. Lam Barriga's clinical interests include caring for adults living with congenital heart disease, cardio-obstetrics, transition from pediatric to adult care and pulmonary hypertension secondary to congenital heart disease. Dr. Lam Barriga is a member of the Adult Congenital Heart Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics. She’s affiliated with St. Joseph’s Hospital, St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital and many other hospitals throughout Tampa Bay. Dr. Barriga is highly rated in 32 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Transposition of the Great Arteries, Tetralogy of Fallot, Double Inlet Left Ventricle, and Bicuspid Aortic Valve. Dr. Barriga is board certified in Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatrics.

Dr. Marco Pinder is a board-certified pediatric cardiologist with subspecialty training in pediatric cardiology and noninvasive imaging and is with BayCare Medical Group in Tampa Bay, Florida, where he sees patients from birth to age 21. Before joining BayCare Medical Group, he practiced at Pediatric Cardiology Associates and practiced pediatric cardiology as an assistant professor at the University of Colorado in Aurora, Colorado. Dr. Pinder earned a Doctor of Medicine from the Medical University of the America’s in Nevis, West Indies, performed a pediatric internship and residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center-Batson’s Children’s Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, and completed a pediatric cardiology fellowship at the University of Colorado Children’s Hospital of Colorado in Aurora, Colorado. Dr. Pinder's clinical interests include inpatient and outpatient primary cardiology and noninvasive imaging. Dr. Pinder is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association and the American Society of Echocardiography. He’s affiliated with St. Joseph’s Hospital, St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital and many other hospitals throughout Tampa Bay. Dr. Pinder is fluent in Spanish. Dr. Pinder is highly rated in 25 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Patent Ductus Arteriosus, Pulmonary Valve Stenosis, Pulmonary Supravalvular Stenosis, and Ventricular Septal Defects. Dr. Pinder is board certified in Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatrics.