Nicholas P. Pietris, MD

Dr. Pietris is a pediatric cardiologist. He specializes in general pediatric cardiology, non-invasive cardiac imaging and cardiopulmonary exercise stress testing.

Dr. Pietris' academic interests include non-invasive cardiac imaging using advanced echocardiographic techniques and three-dimensional imaging. He is involved in translational research geared toward bringing novel therapies from the laboratory bench to the bedside for clinical use.

After earning his Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook (Stony Brook, New York) and medical degree from SUNY Buffalo, Dr. Pietris completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. At Yale, he conducted research on non-invasive imaging using ultrasound and computed tomographic angiography of small animal tissue-engineered vascular grafts that were being studied to develop similar grafts for use in pediatric cardiac imaging in the Children's Heart Program at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina.