Avihu Z. Gazit, MD

  • Chief, Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Medicine
  • Director, Cardiac Critical Care Services
  • Professor of Pediatrics
  • Co-Director, Heart Institute

    Education & Training

  • MD, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
  • Residency in Pediatrics, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
  • Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Fellow, Pediatric Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis Children's Hospital
Awards
Award of Excellence (cum laude) for graduate M.D. thesis, 1997
Best Doctors in America, 2015-2018
Best Doctors in St Louis, 2015-2018
Representative Publications

  • Asfari A, Wolovits J, Gazit AZ, Abbas Q, Macfadyen AJ, Cooper DS, Futterman C, Penk JS, Kelly RB, Salvin JW, Borasino S, Zaccagni HJ. A Near Real-Time Risk Analytics Algorithm Predicts Elevated Lactate Levels in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Patients. Crit Care Explor. 2023 Dec 1;5(12):e1013

  • Lowry AW, Futterman CA, Gazit AZ. Acute vital signs changes are underrepresented by a conventional electronic health record when compared with automatically acquired data in a single-center tertiary pediatric cardiac intensive care unit. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2022 Jun 14;29(7):1183-1190

  • Futterman C, Salvin JW, McManus M, Lowry AW, Baronov D, Almodovar MC, Pineda JA, Nadkarni VM, Laussen PC, Gazit AZ. Inadequate oxygen delivery index dose is associated with cardiac arrest risk in neonates following cardiopulmonary bypass surgery. Resuscitation. 2019 Sep;142:74-80.

  • Gazit AZ, Petrucci O, Manning P, Shepard M, Baltagi S, Simpson K, Castleberry C, Canter C, Eghtesady P. A Novel Surgical Approach to Mechanical Circulatory Support in Univentricular Infants. Ann Thorac Surg. 2017 Nov;104(5):1630-1636.

Research Interests
  • Utilization of Clinical Decision Support Systems informed by near real-time computerized algorithms to detect changes in the clinical state of critically ill patients.
  • Utilization of single ventricle mechanical assist devices as bridge to heart transplant or decision.