Joshua D Robinson

Dr Robinson's overall goal as a pediatric cardiologist is to expand the use of non-invasive cardiac imaging in patients with congenital and pediatric acquired heart disease in order to gain insights into mechanisms of disease progression, reduce the need for costly invasive procedures, and to improve patient outcomes. His clinical practice and advocacy efforts focus on complex congenital heart disease, pediatric aortic valve disease and aortopathy, and improving the transition from pediatric to adult-centered healthcare. His research in assessment of congenital heart disease by functional 4D MRI and other accelerated MRI techniques is currently funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institue of the National Institutes of Health. In addition to his clinical and research efforts, Dr Robinson directs the Echocardiography Laboratory and the Bicuspid Aortic Valve Program at Lurie Children's Hospital and organizes a multi-disciplinary pediatric and adult cardiovascular MRI conference series for Northwestern Radiology and Cardiology fellows. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and serves on the Advisory Editorial Board for the journal Pediatric Cardiology.

Clinical-translational cardiac imaging, including:
- Assessment of congenital heart disease by 4D flow MRI and other accelerated MR techniques
- Assessment of congenital and acquired pediatric heart disease and heart transplantation by multi-parametric structure-function MRI
- Cardiac CTA for assessment of neonatal heart disease

- Noninvasive cardiac imaging, including echocardiography (cardiac ultrasound), MRI and CTA
- Aortic valve disease and aortopathy
- Congenital heart disease, including tetralogy of Fallot
- Transition from pediatric to adult-centered healthcare