(NEW YORK –March 4, 2019) – Robert H. Pass, MD, a nationally and internationally renowned pediatric cardiologist, has been appointed Division Chief of Pediatric Cardiology and Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology at the Mount Sinai Health System. He will also be Co- Director of the Children's Heart Center, an alliance between the Mount Sinai Health System and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, two world-leading institutions that provide an unprecedented scope of services for pediatric heart patients. The Children's Heart Center is housed within Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital.

"The recruitment of Dr. Pass underlines Mount Sinai's dominant role in the field of pediatric cardiology," says Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System. "With the arrival of Dr. Pass, we will enhance the outstanding care we provide to pediatric patients in New York and beyond in collaboration with our superlative pediatric cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery teams."

"We are thrilled to be joined by Dr. Pass, who enjoys a national and international reputation as a superb and empathetic clinician, a beloved educator, and an innovative and expert interventional cardiologist and electrophysiologist," says Lisa Satlin, MD, Herbert H. Lehman Professor and Chair, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Pass's clinical focus is on catheter-based therapy for children, with a particular emphasis on electrophysiology—specifically, ablation for common forms of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), an abnormally rapid heart rhythm. He has contributed substantially to the field of electrophysiology and interventional cardiology and has championed research aimed at minimizing exposure of pediatric patients to radiation in the catheterization and electrophysiology laboratories. He has published more than 95 research publications on SVT and other cardiac conditions in a wide variety of peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and abstracts, in addition to presenting his research internationally.

"I am honored and humbled by this opportunity to join the Mount Sinai family, and to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the finest clinicians and researchers in pediatric cardiology," says Dr. Pass.

Prior to joining Mount Sinai, Dr. Pass was a Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he served as the Associate Pediatric Cardiology Division Chief, Director of the Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, and the Director of Pediatric Cardiac Electrophysiology services at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore.

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