Elena Amin, MD
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

With additional training in using MRI technology for procedures to address heart problems, she has experience performing MRI-guided cardiac catheterization, which has the benefit of being radiation-free.

Amin's research focuses on developing minimally invasive, radiation-minimizing procedures to diagnose and treat heart conditions. She is also involved in research studying outcomes for infants and children with pulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure in the lungs).

Amin earned her medical degree from the University of Dundee School of Medicine in Scotland and completed additional training through the National Health Service Scotland. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. At the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health), she completed a research fellowship in molecular cardiology as well as a research fellowship in interventional cardiac MRI. She then completed a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Children's National Medical Center (an affiliate of the George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences), followed by a fellowship in interventional pediatric cardiology at Emory University.

In her free time, Amin enjoys hiking with her husband and sons, exploring the beauty of Northern California.

• In Memory of Kanishka Ratnayaka.
  Current cardiology reports 2022 Amin EK
• MRI-Guided Cardiac Catheterization in Congenital Heart Disease: How to Get Started.
  Current cardiology reports 2022 Amin EK, Campbell-Washburn A, Ratnayaka K
• Genetics dictating therapeutic decisions in pediatric pulmonary hypertension? A case report suggesting we are getting closer.
  Pulmonary circulation 2022 Stevens L, Colglazier E, Parker C, Amin EK, Nawaytou H, Teitel D, Reddy VM, Welch CL, Chung WK, Fineman JR
• Pulmonary Circulation
  Genetics dictating therapeutic decisions in pediatric pulmonary hypertension? A case report suggesting we are getting closer 2022 Leah Stevens, Elizabeth Colglazier, Claire Parker, Elena K. Amin, Hythem Nawaytou, David Teitel, Vadiyala M. Reddy, Carrie L. Welch, Wendy K. Chung, Jeffrey R. Fineman
• Doppler Echocardiographic Features of Pulmonary Vein Stenosis in Ex-Preterm Children.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2022 Lin Y, Amin EK, Keller RL, Teitel DF, Nawaytou HM
• Novel Documentation of Onset and Rapid Advancement of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension without Symptoms in BMPR2 Mutation Carriers: Cautionary Tales?
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2020 Amin EK, Austin ED, Parker C, Colglazier E, Nawaytou H, Leary PJ, Hemnes AR, Teitel D, Fineman JR
• Giant Neonatal Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation: An Imaging and Management Challenge.
  CASE (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2020 Lin Y, Hogan W, Stillwell K, Moore P, Peyvandi S, Amin E, Quezada E
• Quantitative cardiac magnetic resonance T2 imaging offers ability to non-invasively predict acute allograft rejection in children.
  Cardiology in the young 2020 Sethi N, Doshi A, Doshi T, Cross R, Cronin I, Amin E, Kanter J, Scheel J, Khan S, Campbell-Washburn A, Olivieri L
• X-ray fused with MRI guidance of pre-selected transcatheter congenital heart disease interventions.
  Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions 2019 Grant EK, Kanter JP, Olivieri LJ, Cross RR, Campbell-Washburn A, Faranesh AZ, Cronin I, Hamann KS, O'Byrne ML, Slack MC, Lederman RJ, Ratnayaka K
• Right heart catheterization using metallic guidewires and low SAR cardiovascular magnetic resonance fluoroscopy at 1.5 Tesla: first in human experience.
  Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2018 Campbell-Washburn AE, Rogers T, Stine AM, Khan JM, Ramasawmy R, Schenke WH, McGuirt DR, Mazal JR, Grant LP, Grant EK, Herzka DA, Lederman RJ
• Radiation-free CMR diagnostic heart catheterization in children.
  Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2017 Ratnayaka K, Kanter JP, Faranesh AZ, Grant EK, Olivieri LJ, Cross RR, Cronin IF, Hamann KS, Campbell-Washburn AE, O'Brien KJ, Rogers T, Hansen MS, Lederman RJ
• CMR fluoroscopy right heart catheterization for cardiac output and pulmonary vascular resistance: results in 102 patients.
  Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2017 Rogers T, Ratnayaka K, Khan JM, Stine A, Schenke WH, Grant LP, Mazal JR, Grant EK, Campbell-Washburn A, Hansen MS, Ramasawmy R, Herzka DA, Xue H, Kellman P, Faranesh AZ, Lederman RJ
• Increasing propensity to pursue operative closure of atrial septal defects following changes in the instructions for use of the Amplatzer Septal Occluder device: An observational study using data from the Pediatric Health Information Systems database.
  American heart journal 2017 O'Byrne ML, Shinohara RT, Grant EK, Kanter JP, Gillespie MJ, Dori Y, Rome JJ, Glatz AC
• Multicenter Experience Evaluating Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement in Bovine Jugular Vein (Contegra) Right Ventricle to Pulmonary Artery Conduits.
  Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions 2017 Morray BH, McElhinney DB, Boudjemline Y, Gewillig M, Kim DW, Grant EK, Bocks ML, Martin MH, Armstrong AK, Berman D, Danon S, Hoyer M, Delaney JW, Justino H, Qureshi AM, Meadows JJ, Jones TK
• Real-time MRI guidance of cardiac interventions.
  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2017 Campbell-Washburn AE, Tavallaei MA, Pop M, Grant EK, Chubb H, Rhode K, Wright GA
• Acute Cardiac MRI Assessment of Radiofrequency Ablation Lesions for Pediatric Ventricular Arrhythmia: Feasibility and Clinical Correlation.
  Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology 2017 Grant EK, Berul CI, Cross RR, Moak JP, Hamann KS, Sumihara K, Cronin I, O'Brien KJ, Ratnayaka K, Hansen MS, Kellman P, Olivieri LJ
• The Role of 3-D Heart Models in Planning and Executing Interventional Procedures.
  The Canadian journal of cardiology 2017 Grant EK, Olivieri LJ
• Transseptal Anchored Vascular Plug Closure of Mitral Valve Perforation.
  JACC. Cardiovascular interventions 2017 Grant EK, Kim DW, Border WL, Lerakis S, Babaliaros V, Vincent RN
• Dark blood late enhancement imaging.
  Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2016 Kellman P, Xue H, Olivieri LJ, Cross RR, Grant EK, Fontana M, Ugander M, Moon JC, Hansen MS
• Ablation of ventricular arrhythmia originating from the aortic sinus of Valsalva in an adolescent with anomalous origin of the right coronary artery.
  Cardiology in the young 2016 Grant EK, Berul CI
• Use of Pulmonary Hypertension Medications in Patients with Tetralogy of Fallot with Pulmonary Atresia and Multiple Aortopulmonary Collaterals.
  Pediatric cardiology 2015 Grant EK, Berger JT
• Image Fusion Guided Device Closure of Left Ventricle to Right Atrium Shunt.
  Circulation 2015 Grant EK, Faranesh AZ, Cross RR, Olivieri LJ, Hamann KS, O'Brien KJ, Hansen MS, Donofrio MT, Lederman RJ, Ratnayaka K, Slack MC
• Interventional Cardiology
  Transcatheter Therapy for Arrhythmias in Patients with Complex Congenital Heart Disease 2015 Grant EK, Berul CI
• Cardiac findings in fetal and pediatric autopsies: a five-year retrospective review.
  Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society 2008 Grant EK, Evans MJ