ElizabethLoudon(Williams)ProfitaMD(She/Her)

Pediatric Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation

Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatric Cardiology

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Dr. Elizabeth Profita is a pediatric cardiologist in Palo Alto, CA and is affiliated with Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. She received her medical degree from University of Washington School of Medicine and has been in practice 7 years. She specializes in pediatric heart failure and heart transplantation and is experienced in clinical research, medical education, pediatric vad management, and pediatric heart failure and transplantation. She has more than 10 publications and over 250 citings.

Boston Children's HospitalSenior Fellowship in Heart Failure & Transplant, 2017 - 2018
Boston Children’s Hospital/Boston Medical CenterFellowship, Pediatric Cardiology, 2014 - 2017
Boston Children’s Hospital/Boston Medical CenterResidency, Pediatrics, 2011 - 2014
University of Washington School of MedicineClass of 2011, MD
Colgate UniversityBA, Cellular Neuroscience, 2001 - 2005

Academy for Teaching, Educational Innovation and Scholarship Boston Children's Hospital, 2016
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society 2011

PubMed

65 citations
Detection of active human herpesvirus-6 infection in the brain : Correlation with polymerase chain reaction detection in cerebrospinal fluid
Julie Fotheringham, Nahid Akhyani, Alexander O. Vortmeyer, Donatella Donati, Elizabeth Williams
The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2007-02-01
3 citations
mRNA Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine-Associated Myopericarditis in Adolescents: A Survey Study.
Utkarsh Kohli, Lavina Desai, Devyani Chowdhury, Ashraf S Harahsheh, Alexandra B Yonts
The Journal of Pediatrics. 2022-04-01
9 citations
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation use in the first 24 hours following pediatric heart transplantation: Incidence, risk factors, and outcomes.
Justin Godown, David W. Bearl, Cary Thurm, Matthew Hall, Brian Feingold
Pediatric Transplantation. 2019-04-11

Books/Book Chapters

Immune Regulation and Immunotherapy of Autoimmune Disease
Chapter: Viral Infection and Multiple Sclerosis
Williams EL and S JacobsonEditors: Jingwu Zhang.Springer, LIfe Sciences2007

Abstracts/Posters

Human Herpesvirus-6 Dysregulates Glutamate Update in Astrocytes
Williams E, NIH Summer Student Poster Day, Bethesda, MD, 1/1/2004

Lectures

Astrocytic HHV-6 Infection Dysregulates Glutamate Uptake and Expression of Glutamate Transporters
Barcelona, Spain - 1/1/2006

Other

Three Innovations Shorten Heart Transplant Patient’s Wait TimeFebruary 8th, 2023
Heart Complications Are Rare and Treatable in Children After COVID-19April 10th, 2022
Resilient Teen Receives Stanford Children’s Health 500th Heart TransplantDecember 9th, 2021

Post-Baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award FellowViral Immunology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke2005 - 2007
NIH Summer Internship in Biomedical ResearchViral Immunology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke2004 - 2004