Jacqueline M. Lamour MD

Director, Pediatric Advanced Cardiac Therapies Attending Physician, Pediatric Cardiology Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) Associate Professor of Pediatrics Albert Einstein School of Medicine Medical School: SUNY- Health Science Center at Brooklyn Residency: Pediatrics, Babies Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, Babies Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

Your child's pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Jacqueline M. Lamour, is one of the country's most experienced specialists in pediatric heart failure, transplant and congenital heart disease. Formerly Associate Director of Pediatric Heart Failure and Transplantation at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Lamour has managed more than 200 children undergoing heart transplant. She has treated 400 children with heart failure.

Dr. Lamour possesses a rare combination of skills-transplant experts call on expertise in immunology, pharmacology and internal medicine as well as cardiology. Her skill and experience assure your child of thorough, precise evaluation and-when needed-swift recommendation for transplant wait-listing.

Before, during and after transplant, Dr. Lamour tailors care for your child's unique medical needs. Describing herself as a "very hands-on physician," Dr. Lamour makes a point of personally performing her patients' heart biopsies-a crucial part of post-transplant management. She has performed more than 2000 exacting catheter-based procedures on patients as young as two weeks old.

Committed to research that directly benefits her patients and moves the field of pediatric cardiology forward, Dr. Lamour has participated in multi-center studies that focus on children's heart transplant outcomes. She has written guidelines, consensus statements, peer-reviewed studies and textbook chapters on pediatric transplant and pediatric heart failure patient management.

Dr. Lamour is a member of the Pediatric Subcommittee of the Heart Failure Society of America and the Pediatric Heart Failure Study Group.

Dr. Lamour's satisfaction in caring for the most critically ill children attracted her to pediatric cardiology early in her career. Her determination "never to give up" on her tiny patients later led Dr. Lamour to focus on heart failure and transplant.

Today as then, Dr. Lamour remains committed to treating the whole child. "I feel fortunate," she says, "to work with these children and their families and to learn from their abilities to cope with what life has in store for each of us."  

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Selected Publications

1. Fricker FJ, Addonizio L, Bernstein D, Boucek M, Boucek R, Canter C, Chinnock R, Chin C, Kichuk M, Lamour JM, Pietra B, Morrow R, Rotundo K, Shaddy R, Schuette EP, Schowengerdt KO, Sondheimer H, Webber S.  Heart transplantation in children: indications. Report of the Ad Hoc Subcommittee of the Pediatric Committee of the American Society of Transplantation (AST).  Pediatr Transplant 1999; 3(4):333-42.
2. Lamour JM, Addonizio LJ, Galantowicz ME, Quaegebeur JM, Mancini DM, Kichuk MR, Beniaminovitz A, Michler RE, Weinberg A, Hsu DT.  Outcome after orthotopic cardiac transplantation in adults with congenital heart disease.  Circulation 1999; 100(19 Suppl):II200-5.
3. Lamour JM, Hsu DT, Kichuk MR, Galantowicz ME, Quaegebeur JM, Addonizio LJ. Regression of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations following heart transplantation. Pediatr Transplant 2000; 4(4):280-4.
4. Sheth S, Dimichele D, Lee M, Lamour JM,Quaegebeur J, Hsu D, Addonizio L, Piomelli S.  Heart transplant in a factor VIII-deficient patient with a high-titre inhibitor: perioperative management using high-dose continuous infusion factor VIII and recombinant factor VIIa. Haemophilia 2001; 7(2):227-32.
5. Bruns LA, Chrisant MK, Lamour JM, Shaddy RE, Pahl E, Blume ED, Hallowell S, Addonizio LJ, Canter CE.  Carvedilol as therapy in pediatric heart failure: an initial multicenter experience.  J Pediatr 2001; 38(4):505-11.
6. Cohen A, Addonizio LJ, Softness B, Lamour JM, McMahon DJ, Addesso V, Diamond BE, Shane E. Growth and skeletal maturation after pediatric cardiac transplantation.  Pediatr Transplant 2004; 8(2):126-35.
7. Krishnan US, Lamour JM, Hsu DT, Kichuk MR, Donnelly CM, Addonizio LJ.  Management   of aortopulmonary collaterals in children following cardiac transplantation for complex congenital heart disease.  J Heart Lung Transplant 2004; 23(5):564-9.
8. Prakash A, Printz BF, Lamour JM, Addonizio LJ, Glickstein JS.  Myocardial performance index in pediatric patients after cardiac transplantation.  J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2004; 17(5):439-42.
9. Lamour JM, Hsu DT, Quaegebeur JM, Pinney SP, Mital SR, Mosca RS, Chen JM, Addonizio LJ.  Heart transplantation to a physiologic single lung in patients with congenital heart disease.  J Heart Lung Transplant 2004; 23(8):948-53.
10. Chen JM, Davies RR, Mital SR, Mercando ML, Addonizio LJ, Pinney SP, Hsu DT, Lamour JM, Quaegebeur JM, Mosca RS.  Trends and outcomes in transplantation for complex congenital heart disease: 1984 to 2004.  Ann Thorac Surg. 2004; 78(4):1352-61.
11. Rosenthal D, Chrisant MR, Edens E, Mahony L, Canter C, Colan S, Dubin A, Lamour J, Ross R, Shaddy R, Addonizio LJ, Beerman L, Berger S, Bernstein D, Blume E, Boucek M, Checchia P, Dipchand A, Drummond-Webb J, Fricker J, Friedman R, Hallowell S, Jaquiss R, Mital S, Pahl E, Pearce B, Rhodes L, Rotondo K, Rusconi P, Scheel J, Pal Singh T, Towbin J.  International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Practice guidelines for management of heart failure in children.  J Heart Lung Transplant 2004; 23(12):1313-33.
12. Cohen A, Addonizio LJ, Lamour JM, Addesso V, Staron RB, Gao P, Shane E. Related  osteoporosis in adult survivors of adolescent cardiac transplantation may be related to hyperparathyroidism, mild renal insufficiency, and increased bone turnover. J Heart Lung Transplant 2005; 24(6):696-702.
13. Xydas S, Yang JK, Burke EM, Chen JM, Addonizio LJ, Mital SR, Itescu S, Hsu DT, *Lamour JM.  Utility of post-transplant anti-HLA antibody measurements in pediatric cardiac transplant recipients.  J Heart Lung Transplant 2005; 24(9):1289-1296.
14. Mital S, Andron A, Lamour JM, Hsu DT, Addonizio LJ, Softness B.  Effects of growth hormone therapy in children after cardiac transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant  2006; 25(7):772-7.
15. Richmond ME, Addonizio LJ, Hsu DT, Mital S, Mosca R, Quaegebeur JM, *Lamour JM.  Cardiac retransplantation in high risk pediatric patients.  Pediatr Transplant  2007; 11(6):615-23.