Rajiv Chaturvedi

Title: Section Head, Interventional Cardiology, Division of Cardiology

Designations: MB BChir, MD, PhD

Phone: 416-813-6141

Fax: 416-813-7547

Alternate Contact Name: Paula Hanus

Alternate Phone: 416-813-7654 ext. 403523

Alternate Email: paula.hanus@sickkids.ca

U of T Positions: Professor, Department of Paediatrics

Hospital Positions

Director, Cardiac Diagnostic and Interventional Unit (CDIU)

Biography

Dr. Rajiv Chaturvedi obtained a PhD and completed medical school at Christ’s College, Cambridge, UK. He is a Professor at the University of Toronto and an Interventional Paediatric Cardiologist at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). He also performs fetal cardiac interventions.

He has active research projects in new interventional techniques, cardiovascular physiology and animal models of congenital heart disease. He is also a member of the Cardiac Genome Clinic.

Education and Experience

2025–Present: Section Head, Interventional Cardiology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2025–Present: Director, Cardiac Diagnostic Interventional Unit (CDIU), Division of Cardiology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2021–Present: Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2020-Present: Rogers Innovator in Congenital Heart Disease, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research and The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
2013-Present: Paediatric Cardiologist, Department of Paediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada. Privileges: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
2013-2021: Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada.
2009-Present: Project Investigator, Research Institute. Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2003-Present: Interventional Paediatric Cardiologist, Division of Cardiology, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2003-2013: Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada.

Race against the clock: Lifesaving in-utero heart procedure spares Baby Sebastian a traumatic birth and bridges the gap to corrective surgery

Doctors from SickKids and Mount Sinai Hospital, inserted a balloon into Sebastian’s heart, via a needle placed under ultrasound guidance through his mother’s uterus, to open up the atrial septum. It is believed that this is the first time in the world that this procedure – a Balloon Atrial Septoplasty (BAS) – has been performed before birth to treat Sebastian’s particular condition.