University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital Position
Pediatric Cardiologist

Other Related Positions Currently Held
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota

Specialties
Cardiology
Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Sees Patients At
University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital (The Heart Center)
Pediatric Specialty Clinic (St. Paul)

Clinical Interests
Aortic Aneurysm
Aortic Valve Stenosis
Arrhythmias
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Chest Pain
Congenital Heart Disease
Fetal transthoracic imaging
Heart Disease
Mitral Valve Prolapse
Murmers
Palpitations
Pediatric Cardiology
Prenatal Screening for Congenital Heart Disease
Tachycardia
TEE and Cardiac MRI Scans

Research Interests
Evolution of Heart Disease In-utero During 2nd and 3rd Trimester
Impact of Early Fetal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Defect and Post Natal Outcomes
Valvar Aortic Stenosis
Valvar Pulmonary Stenosis

Education
Medical School
PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, India

Sites of Residency
G. Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital, India (Cardio-Thoracic Surgery)
University of Minnesota (Pediatrics)

Sites of Fellowship
Columbia University, New York, N.Y. (Pediatric Cardiology)
University of Minnesota (Pediatric Cardiology)

Awards and Honors
Best Doctors in America^®, 2009-2010
Best Doctors in America^®, 2007-2008

Selected Recent Publications
S Sivanandam, AR Sinaiko, DR Jacobs, L Steffen, A Moran, J Steinberger. Relationship of Increase in Adiposity to Increase in Left Ventricular Mass from Childhood to Young Adulthood. August 2006,411-415, American Journal of Cardiology.

S Sivanandam, JS Glickstein, BF Printz, LD Allan, K Altmann, DE Solowiejczyk, L Simpson, A Perez-Delboy,  CS Kleinman. Prenatal Diagnosis of Conotruncal Malformations: Diagnostic accuracy, outcome, chromosomal abnormalities and extra cardiac anomalies. ISSN:0735-1631,May 2006,volume 23,No:4 American Journal of Perinatology.

S Sivanandam, AR Sinaiko, DR Jacobs, A Moran, J Steinberger. Increase in adiposity predicts increase in left ventricular mass from childhood to young adulthood. L.J. Filer  Symposium on Overweight  and its Consequences Beginning in Youth. San Francisco, CA, 3/2004 (poster presentation).