Dr. Sheila J. Carroll is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Weill Cornell Medical Center of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Carroll completed her undergraduate studies at Brown University where she obtained a BA in Biology and Medieval Studies. She received her MD from the State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, completed her residency training in pediatrics at Brown University/Hasbro Children's Hospital and is board certified in Pediatrics. Dr. Carroll then undertook a post-doctoral research fellowship at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons where she developed projects studying the genetics of inherited cardiac disease including the long QT syndrome, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and Brugada syndrome. Subsequently, Dr. Carroll completed her clinical fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center of New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Carroll's interests include congenital heart disease, echocardiography, fetal echocardiography and the management of patients after open-heart surgery. She is currently a co-investigator developing a fetal echocardiography database at the New-York Presbyterian Hospital. She has published on a variety of topics ranging from a novel mutation in SCN5A manifesting as a spectrum of phenotypes to the coexistence of cor triatriatum and tetralogy of Fallot.