Lurie Children’s Heart Center, ranked No. 23 in the nation in pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery by U.S. News & World Report 2024–2025, is the region’s largest heart center providing clinical expertise, diagnostics, and high-quality care for the most common to the most complex heart conditions.

Learn more about the Lurie Children’s Heart Center.

Bicuspid Aortic Valve Program

Our partnership with Lurie Children’s gives you access to Lurie Children’s Bicuspid Aortic Valve Program, specially designed to monitor and care for infants, children and teenagers with bicuspid aortic valve disease. The program’s multidisciplinary team of experts ensures that your child receives the most comprehensive care possible.

Convenient Suburban Location

Through a clinical partnership, Lurie Children’s pediatric cardiologists provide comprehensive care for infants, children and teens with heart conditions at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Pediatric Outpatient Center in Winfield, IL.

Pediatric Cardiology Testing

For your convenience, we provide patients with a full range of noninvasive diagnostic tests on-site at Central DuPage Hospital including:

• Echocardiogram (cardiac echo), including fetal testing
• Electrocardiogram (ECG)
• Holter monitoring
• Event monitoring
• Cardiac MRI
• Stress echocardiogram

Our Approach to Care

Using a family-centered multidisciplinary approach to care, our team equips children and their families with ways to cope with the emotional, social and developmental challenges that often come with cardiovascular disease.

The Pediatric Cardiology team includes:

• Lurie Children's specialists who are board-certified in pediatrics and cardiology
• A pediatric electrophysiologist who specializes in heart rate and rhythm abnormalities
• Pediatric registered nurses
• Echocardiography and ECG technicians
• Child life specialists
• Social worker
• Registered dietician
• Child Psychologist
• Geneticist and genetic counselors

Should hospitalization be necessary, patients benefit from the 24-hour onsite coverage provided by Lurie Children’s hospitalists and critical care specialists in the PICU and Pediatric Units at Central DuPage Hospital.

Your family is at the center of this care team, with everyone working together toward a common goal: improving and maintaining your child’s heart health.

Appointments

If you would like to make an appointment with our pediatric cardiology team, call 1.800.KIDS DOC (1.800.543.7362) and ask for an appointment at our Pediatric Outpatient Center at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield.