CURRICULUM VITAE
Kasey J. Chaszczewski MD
Kasey J. Chaszczewski MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Cardiology
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Cardiology
OFFICE ADDRESS: |
Children’s Wisconsin - Milwaukee Hospital |
8915 W Connell Court |
Milwaukee, WI 53226 |
Email: kchaszczewski@mcw.edu |
EDUCATION: |
08/2005 - 05/2009 Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN |
07/2009 - 05/2013 MD, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY |
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS: |
07/2013 - 06/2016 Pediatric Resident, Pediatrics, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL |
07/2016 - 06/2017 Pediatric Chief Resident, Pediatrics, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL |
07/2017 - 06/2020 Pediatric Cardiology Fellow, Pediatrics, Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA |
07/2020 - 06/2021 Advanced Imaging Fellow, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatrics, Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA |
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS: |
08/2021 - Present Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Cardiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS: |
2022 - Present Associate Program Director, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
HOSPITAL AND CLINICAL ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS: |
08/2021 - Present Pediatric Cardiologist, Pediatrics, Herma Heart Institute, Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
RESEARCH ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS: |
2021 - Present Site Primary Investigator, Multi-center Quality Improvement Project to Minimize Pre-operative Echo Discrepancies in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Surgery for Cardiac Defects, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
2021 - Present Member, Pediatric Echocardiography Core Research Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
2022 - Present Echocardiography Site Director, Comparison of Methods of Pulmonary Blood Flow Augmentation in Neonates: Shunt Versus Stent (The COMPASS Trial), Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
01/01/2025 - Present Co-Director of Herma Heart Institute 3D Visualization, Modeling and Computational Engineering Program, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Children’s Wisconsin/Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION: |
Board Certified | Issue Date | Expiration |
American Board of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics | 10/2016 | None |
American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology | 12/2020 | None |
AWARDS AND HONORS: |
2014 Pediatric Resident Teaching Award, Rush University Medical Center |
2016 Pediatric Resident Teaching Award, Rush University Medical Center |
2017 Aesculapius Award: Presented by the graduating medical school class to a resident or fellow physician in recognition of excellence in teaching and patient care, Rush University Medical Center |
2017 Alpha Omega Alpha, Rush University Medical Center |
2021 Top Investigator Award, American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions |
2023 Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Faculty Teacher Award, Medical College of Wisconsin |
MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: |
2017 - 2021 American College of Cardiology |
2020 - Present American Society of Echocardiography |
2022 - Present Association of Pediatric Program Directors |
LOCAL/REGIONAL APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS: |
2010 - 2013 Member, School of Medicine Admissions Committee, Stony Brook University School of Medicine |
2016 - 2017 Member, Intern Selection Committee, Rush University Medical Center, Pediatric Residency Program |
2016 - 2017 Member, Residency Program Clinical Competency Committee, Rush University Medical Center, Pediatric Residency Program |
2020 - Present Member, Multi-center Quality Improvement Project to Minimize Pre-operative Echo Discrepancies in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Surgery for Cardiac Defects, Medical College of Wisconsin, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin |
2022 - Present Member, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Clinical Competencies Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin |
2022 - Present Member, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program Evaluation Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin |
2022 - Present Member, Pediatric Cardiology Scholarship Oversight Committe, Medical College of Wisconsin |
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INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS: |
International |
Contrast Enhanced Echocardiography in Pediatrics, Brazilian Society of Cardiology, 11th Congress of the Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2022 |
National |
Contrast Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease, American Society of Echocardiography Webinar Series, Virtual, 2022 |
2D Assessment of the Mitral Valve: Mechanisms of Mitral Regurgitation, American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions 2025, Nashville, TN, 09/2025 |
Use of Ultrasound Enhancing Agents in the Single Ventricle Patient, American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions 2025, Nashville, TN, 09/2025 |
Regional |
Assessment and Management of Fetal Tachycardia, Fetal Innovations: Conversations with the Experts, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2023 |
Session Moderator: Cardiac Imaging Session, Midwest Pediatric Cardiology Society Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, 09/2024 |
Local |
Contrast Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease, Quality, Outcomes and Research Seminars; Herma Heart Institute, Children’s Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2023 |
Kasey Chaszczewski, Benjamin Goot, Reality Check: The Evolving Role of Virtual Reality in Cardiovascular Imaging for Operative Planning, Quality, Outcomes and Research Seminars; Herma Heart Institute, Children’s Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 05/2024 |
Diagnosis is in the Details: Effective Utilization of Subcostal and Suprasternal Views in Pediatric Echocardiography, Technological Echo Association Milwaukee-Area (TEAM) Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, 10/2024 |
PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS: |
National |
- Chaszczewski K, McCrossan B, Miranda C, Morgan G, Walsh K, Kenny D, Combined Transthoracic Echocardiographic and Fluoroscopic Imaging for Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Stent Implantation in Infants with Symptomatic Forms of Tetralogy of Fallot, PICS-AICS, 2015 |
- Chaszczewski K, O’Byrne ML, Rome J, Gillespie MJ, Dori Y, Glatz AC, Stent Angioplasty for Post-Operative Coronary Artery Stenosis in Infants, CHOP Cardiology Conference, 2019 |
- Chaszczewski K, DiFrancesco JM, Pascua C, Banerjee A, Ewing SG, Falkensammer CB, Goldberg DJ, Goldmuntz E, Jolley MA, Mercer-Rosa L, O’Connor MJ, Rogers LS, Savla JJ, Shillingford A, Szwast A, Fuller S, Cohen MS, Quartermain MD, Natarajan SS, Implementing a Quality Improvement Tool to Systematically Identify Discrepancies between Pre-operative Echocardiographic Findings and Intraoperative Inspection in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Repair for Congenital Heart Defects, American Society of Echocardiography 2020 Scientific Sessions, 2020 |
- Chaszczewski K, Huang J, Fuller S, Smith C, Dori Y, Glatz AC, Gillespie MJ, Rome JJ, O’Byrne ML, Impact of transcatheter pulmonary artery intervention following superior cavopulmonary connection on downstream pulmonary artery growth, American College of Cardiology/World Congress of Cardiology 2020 Scientific Sessions, 2020 |
Chaszczewski K, Cohen M, Transposition of the Great Arteries and Conoseptal Hypoplasia (Outlet without Malalignment) VSD: A rare and challenging combination., CHOP Cardiology Conference, 2020 |
- Chaszczewski KJ, Linder J, Campbell MJ, Kozyak BW, Convery M, Wang Y, Smith CL, Quartermain MD, Novel Utilization of Ultrasound Enhancing Agents Following Superior Cavopulmonary Connection, American Society of Echocardiography 2021 Scientific Sessions, 2021 |
- Natarajan SS, Chaszczewski K, Ansah D, Balasubramanian S, Beattie M, Bhat, AH, Brewer C, Campbell MJ, Carney M, Churchill TL, Dhanantwari P, Jone P, Kong G, Kwon EN, Lipinski J, Madan N, Nelson J, Olsen R, Parthiban A, Prospero C, Rajagopal H, Sachdeva R, Sanandajifar H, Sanchez Mejia A, Srivastava S, Stern K, Taylor C, Tierney S, Cohen MS, Rationale and Design of the First Multi-center Pediatric Echocardiography Quality Improvement Collaborative: Decreasing Pre-operative Imaging Discrepancies in Patients prior Congenital Heart Defect Surgery, American Society of Echocardiography 2022 Scientific Sessions, 2022 |
- Pareja Zabala MC, Chaszczewski KJ, Mejia C, Venkitachalam R, Abdominal Exam Ambiguus: Right Ventricular Diverticulum in the Abdomen in a Patient with Heterotaxy Syndrome, 8th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, 2023 |
EXTRAMURAL TEACHING: |
Resident and Fellow Education |
2017 Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pediatric Resident Lecture Series, Assessment of Syncope in Childhood |
2020 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Bootcamp; Lecturer and Echocardiography Simulation Organizer |
2021 - Present Herma Heart Institute, Children's Wisconsin, Pediatric Cardiology Echocardiography Review; Presenter |
2021 - Present Herma Heart Institute, Children's Wisconsin, Pediatric Cardiology Fellow Core Curriculum; Organizer and Lecturer |
2022 - Present Herma Heart Institute, Children's Wisconsin, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Bootcamp; Organizer and Lecturer |
Continuing Medical Education |
2020 Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, EPIC Utilization in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit; Just-in-time electronic medical record training for providers during the COVID pandemic |
PROGRAMMATIC DEVELOPMENTS: |
Educational Programs |
Fellow |
2022 - Present Organizer, Lecturer and Hands-On Echocardiography Director, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Bootcamp, Children's Wisconsin |
2023 - Present Gallen Catheterization Conference, Cardiology Fellow Podium Presentation |
Clinical Programs |
2021 - Present Congenital Three-Dimensional Echocardiography |
2021 - Present Ultrasound Enhancing Agents in Pediatric Echo |
2023 - Present Quality Improvement Initiative to Facilitate Evening Rounding on the Cardiac Acute Care Floor: QI Initiative to Improve Provider Communication and Optimize Patient Care |
2023 - Present 3D Virtual Reality and Printed Cardiac Modeling |
COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES: |
2022 - Present Member, Health Professions Council, University of Chicago |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers |
1. Chaszczewski KJ, Sosnowski C, Ganesan R. Vagal Termination of Ventricular Tachycardia in a Pediatric Patient. Pediatrics. 2018 Apr;141(Suppl 5):S412-S415. |
2. Shahanavaz S, Zahn EM, Levi DS, Aboulhousn JA, Hascoet S, Qureshi AM, Porras D, Morgan GJ, Bauser Heaton H, Martin MH, Keeshan B, Asnes JD, Kenny D, Ringewald JM, Zablah JE, Ivy M, Morray BH, Torres AJ, Berman DP, Gillespie MJ, Chaszczewski K, Zampi JD, Walsh KP, Julien P, Goldstein BH, Sathanandam SK, Karsenty C, Balzer DT, McElhinney DB. Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement With the Sapien Prosthesis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020 Dec 15;76(24):2847-2858. |
3. Chaszczewski KJ, Huang J, Fuller S, Smith CL, Dori Y, Glatz AC, Gillespie MJ, Rome JJ, O'Byrne ML. Impact of Transcatheter Pulmonary Artery Intervention Following Superior Cavopulmonary Connection on Pulmonary Artery Growth. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2021 Sep;12(5):635-642. |
4. Chaszczewski KJ, Nicholson GT, Shahanavaz S, Dori Y, Gillespie MJ, O'Byrne ML, Rome JJ, Glatz AC. Stent Angioplasty for Post-Operative Coronary Artery Stenosis in Infants. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2022 Mar;13(2):203-207. |
5. White BR, Chaszczewski KJ, Lemley B, Natarajan SS, Rogers LS. Sustained improvement in fellows' echocardiographic completeness through the coronavirus pandemic with a standardised imaging protocol. Cardiol Young. 2023 Jan;33(1):69-75. PMCID: PMC9357856 |
6. Chaszczewski KJ, Linder JR, Campbell MJ, Convery M, Wang Y, Smith CL, Kozyak BW, Quartermain MD. Novel Utilization of Ultrasound Enhancing Agents in Complex Congenital Heart Disease Following Superior Cavopulmonary Connection. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2023 May;36(5):516-522. |
7. Thalner SM, Chaszczewski KJ, Melamed J, Hambrook JT, Tomita-Mitchell A, Mitchell ME. Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm in a Preschooler With Schuurs-Hoeijmakers Syndrome. Ann Thorac Surg Short Rep. 2023 Dec;1(4):663-665. PMCID: PMC11708557 |
8. Natarajan SS, Chaszczewski K, Penney C, Ampah S, Ryba D, Kennedy AT, Olsen R, Srivastava S, Campbell MJ, Carney M, Prospero C, Elliott L, Brewer C, DiMaria M, Madan N, Tierney S, Beattie M, Sachdeva R, Lipinski J, Stern KWD, Kong G, Dhanantwari P, Kwon EN, Rajagopal H, Taylor C, Churchill T, Sanchez Mejia AA, Abenlah Ansah D, Parthiban A, Sanandajifar H, Balasubramanian S, Parra DA, Crum K, Stiver C, Bhat AH, Jone PN, Samples S, Van't Hof K, DeGroff C, Lopez-Colon D, Cohen MS. Diagnostic Accuracy Prior to Congenital Heart Defect Surgery: A Multicenter Collaboration. JACC Adv. 2025 Feb;4(2):101558. PMCID: PMC11905157 |
9. Chaszczewski KJ, Perelman S, Falkensammer CB, Szwast A, Pang C, Tian Z, Gebb J, Moldenhauer J, Khalek N, Rychik J. Selective Fetoscopic Laser Photocoagulation of Placental Anastomoses Leads to Early Reduction of Cardiovascular Burden in the Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome. Prenat Diagn. 2025 Jun;45(6):787-794. PMCID: PMC12137031 |
Books, Chapters, and Reviews |
1. Chaszczewski K, Kenny D, Hijazi Z. “Pulmonary Artery and Valve Catheter Based Interventions,” Interventional Cardiology: Principles and Practices Edition 2e. Wiley Blackwell, 2017. |
2. Taqatqa A, El Tahlawi M, Chaszczewski K, Awad S. “Heart Failure in Pediatric Patients with Congenital Heart Disease,” Frontiers in Heart Failure: Heart Failure in Pediatric Patients. Bentham Science, 2020. |
Abstracts |
1. Chaszczewski K, McCrossan B, Miranda C, Morgan G, Walsh K, Kenny D. “Combined Transthoracic Echocardiographic and Fluoroscopic Imaging for Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Stent Implantation in Infants with Symptomatic Forms of Tetralogy of Fallot.” PICS-AICS, September 2015. |
2. Chaszczewski K, O’Byrne ML, Rome J, Gillespie MJ, Dori Y, Glatz AC. “Stent Angioplasty for Post-Operative Coronary Artery Stenosis in Infants.” CHOP Cardiology Conference, February 2019. |
3. Chaszczewski K, Cohen M. “Transposition of the Great Arteries and Conoseptal Hypoplasia (Outlet without Malalignment) VSD: A rare and challenging combination.” CHOP Cardiology Conference, February 2020. |
4. Chaszczewski K, Huang J, Fuller S, Smith C, Dori Y, Glatz AC, Gillespie MJ, Rome JJ, O’Byrne ML. “Impact of transcatheter pulmonary artery intervention following superior cavopulmonary connection on downstream pulmonary artery growth.” American College of Cardiology/World Congress of Cardiology Scientific Session, April 2020. |
5. Chaszczewski K, DiFrancesco JM, Pascua C, Banerjee A, Ewing SG, Falkensammer CB, Goldberg DJ, Goldmuntz E, Jolley MA, Mercer-Rosa L, O’Connor MJ, Rogers LS, Savla JJ, Shillingford A, Szwast A, Fuller S, Cohen MS, Quartermain MD, Natarajan SS. “Implementing a Quality Improvement Tool to Systematically Identify Discrepancies between Pre-operative Echocardiographic Findings and Intraoperative Inspection in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Repair for Congenital Heart Defects.” American Society of Echocardiography 2020 Scientific Sessions, August 2020. |
6. Chaszczewski KJ, Linder J, Campbell MJ, Kozyak BW, Convery M, Wang Y, Smith CL, Quartermain MD. “Novel Utilization of Ultrasound Enhancing Agents Following Superior Cavopulmonary Connection” American Society of Echocardiography 2021 Scientific Sessions, June 2021. |
7. - Natarajan SS, Chaszczewski K, Ansah D, Balasubramanian S, Beattie M, Bhat, AH, Brewer C, Campbell MJ, Carney M, Churchill TL, Dhanantwari P, Jone P, Kong G, Kwon EN, Lipinski J, Madan N, Nelson J, Olsen R, Parthiban A, Prospero C, Rajagopal H, Sachdeva R, Sanandajifar H, Sanchez Mejia A, Srivastava S, Stern K, Taylor C, Tierney S, Cohen MS: Rationale and Design of the First Multi-center Pediatric Echocardiography Quality Improvement Collaborative: Decreasing Pre-operative Imaging Discrepancies in Patients prior Congenital Heart Defect Surgery. The American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions June 2022. |
8. Pareja Zabala MC, Chaszczewski KJ, Mejia C, Venkitachalam R. Abdominal Exam Ambiguus: Right Ventricular Diverticulum in the Abdomen in a Patient with Heterotaxy Syndrome. 8th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery August 2023. |
