Nicole Cresalia, MD
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Dr. Nicole Cresalia is a pediatric cardiologist with expertise in pediatric, fetal and transesophageal echocardiography (ultrasound of the heart). In addition to caring for infants and children as outpatients in the clinic, she cares for hospitalized pediatric patients with heart disease or following cardiac surgery.

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Cresalia enjoys educating families on how surgical outcomes for pediatric cardiology patients have dramatically improved over the past several decades, enabling children to thrive.

In her research, Cresalia is interested in using noninvasive imaging techniques to predict and improve patient outcomes. She is also interested in how to enhance education at all stages of medical training and completed the UCSF Teaching Scholars Program in 2020. She is the Program Director for the Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program.

Cresalia earned her medical degree and completed a residency in pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She completed a pediatric cardiology fellowship at the University of Michigan, where she also trained in advanced noninvasive imaging.

Cresalia belongs to the American Society of Echocardiography, Society of Pediatric Echocardiography and Fetal Heart Society. In 2010, she received the Jessie L. Ternberg Award, given for determination, perseverance and dedication to patients. Her volunteer work has included providing care at an overnight camp for children born with heart defects.

Education & Training

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• Teaching Scholars Program University of California 2020
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019

Publications (9)

Top publication keywords:
Neonatal ScreeningHeart Valve DiseasesForecastingAntibodies, AntinuclearPulmonary ArteryMycosesEndocarditisFetal TherapiesVascular Surgical ProceduresOxygen Inhalation TherapyEchocardiographyStenosis, Pulmonary ArteryPlacental CirculationVentricular Dysfunction, RightHeart Defects, Congenital

• Myocarditis in children after COVID-19 vaccine.
  Annals of pediatric cardiology 2022 Aljohani OA, Arcilla L, Kaushik N, Cresalia NM, Li B, Edwell AA, Ramirez AM, Anwar S
• Comprehensive Assessment of Clinical Learning Environments to Drive Improvement: Lessons Learned from a Pilot Program.
  Teaching and learning in medicine 2022 Bernal J, Cresalia N, Fuller J, Gin B, Laves E, Lupton K, Malkina A, Marmor A, Wheeler D, Williams M, van Schaik S
• A Measurement-Based Protocol Improves Interrater Agreement and Accuracy of Right Ventricular Systolic Pressure Assessment by Echocardiography in Children: A Call for Quality Improvement.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2022 Nawaytou H, Springston C, Lazar A, Keller S, Hogan W, Cresalia N, Peyvandi S, Cocalis M, Moon-Grady A, Brook M
• Enhanced Critical Congenital Cardiac Disease Screening by Combining Interpretable Machine Learning Algorithms.
  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2021 Lai Z, Vadlaputi P, Tancredi DJ, Garg M, Koppel RI, Goodman M, Hogan W, Cresalia N, Juergensen S, Manalo E, Lakshminrusimha S, Chuah CN, Siefkes H
• Fetal cerebrovascular response to maternal hyperoxygenation in congenital heart disease: effect of cardiac physiology.
  Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2021 Hogan WJ, Moon-Grady AJ, Zhao Y, Cresalia NM, Nawaytou H, Quezada E, Brook M, McQuillen P, Peyvandi S

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• Not just vegetations: focal myocardial changes in patients with fungal infections.
  Cardiology in the young 2020 Cresalia NM, Owens ST, Stillwell TL, Norris MD, Yu S, Retzloff L, Ensing GJ
• Long-Term Outcomes After Surgical Pulmonary Arterioplasty and Risk Factors for Reintervention.
  The Annals of thoracic surgery 2017 Cresalia NM, Armstrong AK, Romano JC, Norris MD, Yu S, Rocchini AP, Zampi JD
• Unbiased modifier screen reveals that signal strength determines the regulatory role murine TLR9 plays in autoantibody production.
  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2015 Mills RE, Lam VC, Tan A, Cresalia N, Oksenberg N, Zikherman J, Anderson M, Weiss A, Hermiston ML
• Differential impact of the CD45 juxtamembrane wedge on central and peripheral T cell receptor responses.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009 Hermiston ML, Zikherman J, Tan AL, Lam VC, Cresalia NM, Oksenberg N, Goren N, Brassat D, Oksenberg JR, Weiss A