Biography

• University of South Florida School of Medicine, 1978
• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pediatric Residency,78-81
• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pediatric Cardiology, Fellowship, 81-84
• Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University,1984 to present;
       Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology

Married, 4 children
Member: AAP, AAC, SCAI (Fellow in all)
Resides in Richmond, VA

Interests

1. Director, Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at MCV/VCU: diagnostic and interventional catheterization
2. Medical Director, Pediatric Heart transplantation, MCV/VCU: transplantation, heart failure, cardiomyopathy.
3. Childhood Passive Smoking: Cardiovascular Effects
4. Child Advocacy: member, AAP Committee on Federal Government Affairs

C.V.

Board Certified, American Board of Pediatrics 1983, Sub-Board Cardiology 1985

Ongoing research

1. Device closures of ASD, PFO, PDA
2. Cardiovascular Coupling in repaired Aortic Coarctation
3. Medical Students and Child Health Advocacy

Most recent publications

1. Donofrio MT, Kakavand B, Moskowitz WB Evaluation of regional wall motion and quantitative measures of ventricular function during dobutamine stress echocardiography in pediatric cardiac transplant patients.J AmSoc Echocardiography 13:932-940-2000
    
2. Mesia CI, Moskowitz WB Coil occlusion of elderly ductus arteriosus.
   Am J Geriatric Cardiology 8:131-132, 1999
    
3. Thomas WJ, Moskowitz WB, Freedman A, Vetrovec GW, Goudreau E. Therapeutic embolization for unusual iatrogenic complications related to coronary revascularization. Cathet Cardiovasc Intervent 46:457-462, 1999
    
4. Moskowitz WB, Schieken RM. Balloon dilation of discrete subaortic stenosis associated with other cardiac defects in children. J Invasive Cardiol 11:116-120, 1999.
    
5. Childhood passive smoking, race and coronary artery disease risk: the MCV Twin Study.
   Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 153:446-453, 1999.