The lab’s assets include three MRI systems available for pediatric studies, cardiac imaging processing, cardiovascular imaging and therapeutic ultrasound. A robust echocardiogram program conducts 10,000 transthoracic echocardiograms and 1,300 fetal echocardiograms per year, and maintains a database with 10 years of data.

Reid Thompson’s research interests include evaluation of ventricular function in patients with muscular dystrophy and Barth syndrome, and in patients who have completed chemotherapy. He also studies novel methods of teaching and diagnosing heart disease through cardiac auscultation.

Lauren Jantzie, Ph.D. and colleagues across Johns Hopkins are identifying new biomarkers — measurable, physical signs — to help identify pediatric heart disease and brain injury. Along with Allen Everett, M.D., a leader in pediatric biomarker discovery, initially in sickle cell disease and subsequently in birth injury, congenital heart disease repair, ECMO, prematurity and pulmonary hypertension, Dr. Jantzie directs the Pediatric Proteome Center and integrates cutting edge molecular medicine with clinical innovation.