Christiana Tai, MD
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Dr. Christiana Tai is a pediatric and fetal cardiologist who cares for patients with heart disease, supporting them from before birth through childhood and into young adulthood. She sees patients in both the clinic and the hospital. Additionally, she provides imaging services to guide cardiothoracic surgeons and interventional cardiologists performing invasive and minimally invasive procedures.

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Her special interests include prenatal counseling, addressing health disparities, preventive cardiology and outreach medicine (methods of providing health care to underserved areas or populations).

Education & Training

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• Advanced Imaging UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco 6/2021
• Preventive Cardiology and Fetal Imaging UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco 8/2020
• Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco 08/2019
• Pediatrics Residency UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland 06/2015
• MD/MPH Medicine Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 05/2012

Publications (4)

Top publication keywords:
Pulmonary ArteryUltrasonography, PrenatalThrombosisHypereosinophilic SyndromeUmbilical ArteriesCardiac Imaging TechniquesSingle Umbilical ArteryHeart DiseasesHypertension, PulmonaryTertiary Care CentersAccelerationHeart Defects, CongenitalEchocardiographyVascular ResistanceEndomyocardial Fibrosis

• Atrial Appendage Anastomosis in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome With Restrictive Atrial Septum: A Novel Approach.
  JACC. Case reports 2022 Nguyen CP, Tai CP, Moon-Grady AJ, Reddy VM
• Pulmonary artery acceleration time in young children is determined by heart rate and transpulmonary gradient but not by pulmonary blood flow: A simultaneous echocardiography-cardiac catheterization study.
  Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) 2022 Tai C, Hsieh A, Moon-Grady AJ, Keller RL, Teitel D, Nawaytou HM
• Prevalence of Congenital Heart Disease in an Isolated Single Umbilical Artery Is Low at a Tertiary Referral Center.
  Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2020 Tai C, Conner T, Pevyandi S, Moon-Grady AJ
• Endomyocardial fibrosis and mural thrombus in a 4-year-old girl due to idiopathic hypereosinophilia syndrome described with serial cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.
  Cardiology in the young 2015 Tai CP, Chung T, Avasarala K