Timothy F. Feltes, MD

Medical School:

Medical College of Ohio at Toledo   MD   06/05/1980

Internship:

Emory University Hospital   06/30/1981

Residency:

Emory University Hospital   06/30/1983

Fellowship:

Texas Children's Hospital   06/30/1986

Section:

Cardiology   Click to learn about this department

Specialty:

Pediatric Cardiology, Certified  
Pediatrics, Certified  

Gender:

Male

Languages Spoken:

English

Date of Appointment at
Children's Hospital:

08/10/2001

Office Practice Information:

• Accepts patients 0-18
• Accepts patients 18 years or older
• Accepts Medicaid
• Requires a written physician referral
• Provides prenatal visits for expecting parents
• This office is wheelchair accessible
• Practices at one of Nationwide Children's Close to Home Centers or Primary Care Centers

Academic Title:

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Andy Paxton Endowed Chair in Cardiology

Clinical, Teaching & Research Interests*:

Timothy F. Feltes, MD, is Chief of Pediatric Cardiology and Co-Director of The Heart Center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and the Andy Paxton Endowed Chair in Cardiology. His clinical focus has been critical care cardiology and the management of the postoperative cardiac patient with congenital heart disease (CHD). His research interests have included vascular smooth muscle physiology, pulmonary lymphatic function and the non-invasive assessment of ventricular mechanics. Dr. Feltes is an expert in the prevention of respiratory syncytial viral infection in children with CHD and he has been a co-principal investigator of two (palivizumab, motavizumab) large multi-center clinical trials. Dr. Feltes is an editor of the 7th Edition of Moss and Adams’ Heart Disease in Infants, Children and Adolescents. He is on the Sub-board of Pediatric Cardiology, American Board of Pediatrics, Congenital Cardiac Defects Committee of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Young, American Heart Association and a member of the Protocol Committee of the Pediatric Heart Network, National Institutes of Health. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas and Indiana University and given over 100 invited lectures worldwide since coming here in 2001. He is the author of nearly 70 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.

Publications*:

Feltes TF, Sondheimer HM. Palivizumab: Prophylaxis in Children. Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy (IF 2.6) 7: 1471-80, 2007.

Fischer A, Long D, Feltes TF. Hepatic necrosis following repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection. Cardiology in the Young 17(4): 435-437, 2007.

Friedman A, Stephens P, Feltes T, Tweddell J, Frommelt M. Congenital and acquired coronary artery disease in children. In: Cardiology in the Young, 17 Suppl 2: 56-67, 2007.

Hoffman TM, Taeed R, Niles JP, McMillin MA, Perkins LA, Feltes TF. Parental factors impacting the enrollment of children in cardiac critical care clinical trials. Pediatric Cardiology 8(3): 167-171, 2007.

Luce WA, Joshi MS, Hoffman TM, Feltes TF, Bauer JA. Immune Mechanisms in Pediatric Cardiovascular Disease. In: Immune Dysfunction and Immunotherapyin Heart Disease (Watson RR and Larson D, eds.) Blackwell Publishing, Boston, 6-16, 2007.

Awards and Honors*:

Listed, Best Doctors in America

Listed, Docs Rate Docs, Columbus Dispatch and WBNS-10 TV Poll

Presentations and
Teaching Activities*:

Controversies in Pediatric Cardiology Debate. Repair of the Anomalous Coronary Artery, Use of Endowed Chairs, Genetics of Inotropic Response, Cardiology Jeopardy, and CON: Surgical Repair of Nonischemic Anomalous Origin of a Coronary Artery from the Wrong Sinus of Valsalva, Faculty, 10th Annual Postgraduate Course in Neonatal and Pediatric Cardiovascular Disease, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Orlando, Florida, February 21-25, 2007

Outcome Following the Stage II Hybrid Palliation of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Invited Speaker, 5th World Congress of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine & the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society Symposium, Geneva, Switzerland, June 23-24, 2007

The Inflammatory Response in the Neonate and Its Management, Invited Speaker, 13th Annual World Congress on Heart Disease, Vancouver, Canada, July 28-31, 2007

Lecture on Lesson’s Learned from Year One, MedImmune, Inc., CP-124 Domestic Investigator’s Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, August 20-22, 2007

Lecture on Lesson’s Learned from Year One, CRA Training: Cardiology 101, MedImmune, Inc. CP-124 International Investigator’s Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, September 6-8, 2007

*Physician publications, awards and honors, and presentations and teaching activities represent work completed in 2008 only.