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Rachel Cooper Pediatric Heart Center

The Rachel Cooper Pediatric Heart Center is located in the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM).

Heal-A-Heart Program

The Heal-A-Heart Program is the centerpiece of the Rachel Cooper Foundation’s commitment to save the lives of children born with congenital heart defects.

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Fellowship and Research

In order to expand the impact of our mission of saving children, we have in recent years, funded the Rachel Cooper Foundation Fellowship at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM).

 

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Here are some of the children saved by the Rachel Cooper Foundation

 
 

In order to expand the impact of our mission of saving children we have, in recent years, funded the Rachel Cooper Foundation Fellowship. In this way we have supported the training of exceptional surgeons who, both in their work and research efforts increase our impact on saving lives exponentially. They have become leaders in their field and are training other surgeons. The total number of children who will be helped by this program is incalculable. Below are the biographies of our first two fellows.

Dr. Venkataramana Vijay

Dr. Venkataramana Vijay was the first recipient of the Rachel Cooper Foundation Fellowship. Already an accomplished surgeon, he honed his skills in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery and engaged in cutting-edge research during his two year fellowship. Dr. Vijay is indebted to the Rachel Cooper Foundation for changing the direction of his career. “The Fellowship led to my appointment to the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where I supervise the training of cardiothoracic surgeons and continue to pursue vital research projects.” To date, Dr. Vijay has published over 100 medical journal articles and abstracts. He feels strongly that in addition to his own work as a surgeon, his teaching and research has enabled him to give back to his profession, by making a contribution to the advancement of surgical procedures and patient care.

He is currently working at Beth Israel Hospital in Brooklyn, a campus of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Department of Surgery & Surgical Critical Care. He is also a member of the Rachel Cooper Foundation’s Medical Advisory Board.

Dr. Reshma Biniwale

Dr. Reshma Biniwale completed her tenure at Children’s Hospital as the second Rachel Cooper Foundation Fellow in 2005. She worked directly with Dr. Sam Weinstein, Director, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery assisting him in over 300 pediatric cardiothoracic surgeries, including all the children whose surgeries were sponsored by the Rachel Cooper Foundation. She also supervised the recovery of all these children and managed their treatment plans.

Currently, Dr. Biniwale has assumed the position of Clinical Instructor in Cardiopulmonary Transplantation at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She credits the Rachel Cooper Foundation Fellowship with giving her the grounding in pediatric cardiac surgery that has enabled her to develop a niche in pediatric cardiac transplantation. The preliminary research that she conducted as a Rachel Cooper Fellow familiarized her with the rigors and applications of bench research and reinforced her determination to pursue pediatric cardiothoracic surgery as a career.

We are grateful to Dr. Biniwale for joining the Foundation’s Medical Advisory Board.


Dr. Kanwal Farooqi

Dr. Kanwal Farooqi is our newest Rachel Cooper Fellow. She completed her residency in pediatric medicine at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) in 2010 and this fellowship will enable her to fulfill her dream of devoting her career to children suffering from congenital heart defects. As a Fellow she will undergo intensive training in echocardiograms, cardiac catherization and electro physiology, which is a study of the heart’s electrical conduction system. She will also be responsible for the pre and post operative care of all the children who have cardiac surgery at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM). This assignment will include working closely with Dr. Daphne Hsu, Division Chief of Pediatric Cardiology, in managing the care of children hospitalized for heart transplantation.

We are proud to welcome Dr. Farooqi to the Rachel Cooper Foundation family, and to support her training in this specialized field of medicine.

 
 

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