Department of Pediatrics

Education

• BS, Brown University, 1974
• MSc, Brown University, 1976
• MD, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1979

Training

• Intern, St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 1979 - 1980
• Assistant Resident, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 1980 - 1982
• Resident-Fellow, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 1982 - 1984

Licensure and Board Certification

• IL, Medical License
• MO, Medical License
• 1980 - PresNational Board of Medical Examiners
• 1984 - PresAmerican Board of Pediatrics
• 1988 - PresAPB, Sub-Board of Pediatric Cardiology, recertified 1995,recertified 2002,recertified 2015

Honors and Awards

• Fellowship, American Heart Association Seminar on Cardiovascular Epidemiology - Pres
• Upjohn Achievement Award, 1979
• Best Doctors in America, 2003
• Medical Honoree, American Heart Association, Heartland Affiliate, 2004
• New endowed professorship from St. Louis Children’s Hospital – The Lois B. Tuttle and Jeanne B. Hauck Chair in Pediatrics., 2012 - Pres
• Parkway School District Hall of Fame, 2016 - Pres

Recent Publications view all (228)

Publication Co-Authors

Gregory A. Storch, M.D.

Shalini Shenoy, M.D.

Ramzi Nicolas, M.D.

Stuart C. Sweet, M.D., Ph.D.

Mayte Figueroa, MD, FACC

Lori R. Holtz, M.D., M.S.P.H.

S. Paul Hmiel, M.D., Ph.D.

Ronald Jackups, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.

Kathleen Simpson, M.D.

Neil H. White, M.D.

Shabana Shahanavaz, M.B.B.S.

Caroline K. Lee, M.D.

Aimée Baumann-Dudenhoeffer, M.D.

Dorothy Katherine Grange, M.D.

Beth A. Kozel, M.D., Ph.D.

Janet Scheel

Jennifer N. Avari Silva, M.D.

R. Mark Grady, M.D.

Bess A. Marshall, M.D.

David Balzer, M.D.

S. Celeste Morley, M.D., Ph.D.

Mark C. Johnson, M.D.

Robert J. Hayashi, M.D.

Avihu Z. Gazit, M.D.

Vikas Dharnidharka, M.D., M.P.H.

Washington University has a long tradition of collaboration amongst colleagues.The faculty above have co-authored publications with Charles Canter, M.D.

1. Adam M Brouillard 1, Elena Deych 2, Charles Canter 3, Michael W Rich. Trends in Sodium Intake in Children and Adolescents in the US and the Impact of US Department of Agriculture Guidelines J Pediatr. 2020. PMID:32600669 
2. Lamour JM,Mason KL,Hsu DT,Hsu DT,Feingold B,Blume BD,Canter CE,Dipchand,Shaddy RE,Mahle WT,Zuckerman WA,Bentlejewski C,Armstrong BD,Morrison Y,Diop H,Ikle DN,Odim J,Zeevi A,Webber SA. First year outcomes for low immunologic risk pediatric heart trasplant recipients managed with a steroid avoidance protocol: results from a multicenter prospective cohort study(CTOTC-4). I Heart Lung Transplant. 2020;972-981. 
3. Axelsson Raja A. Baseline characteristics of the Valsartan for Attenuating Disease Evoltion in early Sarcomeric Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Cohort. Circ Heart failure. 2019. PMID:31813281 
4. Mahle WT, Mason KL, Dipchand AI, Richmond M, Feingold B, Canter CE, Hsu DT, Singh TP, Shaddy RE, Armstrong BD, Zeevi A, Iklé DN, Diop H, Odim J, Webber SA, CTOTC-04 Investigators.. Hospital readmission following pediatric heart transplantation. Pediatr Transplant. 2019;23(7):e13561. PMID:31483086 
5. Choudhry S, Wang Y, Denfield SW, Cabrera AG, Price JF, Tunuguntla HP, Dharnidharka VR, Canter CE, Dreyer WJ. A Recipient Risk Prediction Tool for Short-term Mortality After Pediatric Heart Transplantation. Transplantation. 2019;103(11):2434-2439. PMID:30801538 
6. Jeewa A, Imamura M, Canter C, Niebler RA, VanderPluym C, Rosenthal DR, Kirklin JK, Cantor RS, Tressler M, McMullan DM, Morell VO, Turrentine M, Ameduri R, Nguyen K, Kanter K, Conway J, Gajarski R, Fraser CD. Long-term outcomes after transplantation after support with a pulsatile pediatric ventricular assist device. Journal of Heart Lung Transplant. . 2019;38(4):449-455. PMID:30466802 
7. Lamour JM, Mason KL, Hsu DT, Feingold B, Blume ED, Canter CE, Dipchand AI, Shaddy RE, Mahle WT, Zuckerman WA, Bentlejewski C, Armstrong BD, Morrison Y, Diop H, Iklé DN, Odim J, Zeevi A, Webber SA, CTOTC-04 investigators.. Early outcomes for low-risk pediatric heart transplant recipients and steroid avoidance: A multicenter cohort study (Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation in Children - CTOTC-04). J Heart Lung Transplant. 2019. PMID:31324444 
8. Everitt MD, Wilkinson JD, Shi L, Towbin JA, Colan SD, Kantor PF, Canter CE, Webber SA, Hsu DT, Pahl E, Addonizio LJ, Dodd DA, Jefferies JL, Rossano JW, Feingold B, Ware SM, Lee TM, Godown J, Simpson KE, Sleeper LA, Czachor JD, Razoky H, Hill A, Westphal J, Molina KM, Lipshultz SE, Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry Investigators.. Cardiac Biomarkers in Pediatric Cardiomyopathy: Study Design and Recruitment Results from the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry. Prog Pediatr Cardiol. 2019;53:1-10. PMCID:PMC6863618  PMID:31745384 
9. Everitt MD, Wilkinson JD, Shi L, Towbin JA, Colan SD, Kantor PF, Canter CE, Webber SA, Hsu DT, Pahl E, Addonizio LJ, Dodd DA, Jefferies JL, Rossano JW, Feingold B, Ware SM, Lee TM, Godown J, Simpson KE, Sleeper LA, Czachor JD, Razoky H, Hill A, Westphal J, Molina KM, Lipshultz SE. Cardiac biomarkers in pediatric cardiomyopathy: study design and recruitment results from the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry Prog Pediatr Cardiol . 2019;53:1-10. 
10. Vigneault DM, Yang E, Jensen PJ, Tee MW, Farhad H, Chu L, Noble JA, Day SM, Colan SD, Russell MW, Towbin J, Sherrid MV, Canter CE, Shi L, Ho CY, Bluemke DA. Left Ventricular Strain Is Abnormal in Preclinical and Overt Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Cardiac MR Feature Tracking. Radiology. 2019;290(3):640-648. PMCID:PMC6394738  PMID:30561279 
11. Mowers KL, Simpson KE, Gazit AZ, Eghtesady P, Canter CE, Castleberry CD. Moderate-severe primary graft dysfunction after pediatric heart transplantation. Pediatr Transplant. 2019;23(2):e13340. PMID:30609166 
12. Scheel J, Canter CE. Center volume and outcomes in pediatric heart transplantation-Bigger is better until it isn't. Am J Transplant. 2018;18(12):2843-2844. PMID:30040193 
13. Chen JM, Canter CE, Hsu DT, Kindel SJ, Law YM, McKeever JE, Pahl E, Schumacher KR. Current Topics and Controversies in Pediatric Heart Transplantation: Proceedings of the Pediatric Heart Transplantation Summit 2017. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2018;9(5):575-581. PMID:30157743 
14. Cammock C, Choudhry S, Castleberry CM, Al-Hammadi N, Eghtesady P, Canter CE, Simpson KE. Early stroke post-heart transplant is associated with decreased survival in children. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2018;37(6):733-739. PMID:29395751 
15. Conway J, Miera O, Adachi I, Maeda K, Eghtesady P, Henderson HT, Guleserian K, Fan CS, Kirk R; Pediatric VAD Investigators,Canter CE, Pac M, VanderPluym C, Eastaugh L, Buchholz H, Zimpfer D, Turek J, Fenton M, Neibler RA, Kirklin JK, Padalino MA, Lorts A, Hassan M, Lytrivi ID, Auerbach S, Slaughter MS, Schweiger M, Ueno T, Davies RR, Lamour J, Schmitto JD, Zinn M, Human D, Scheel JN, Li Y, Parrino PE, Borik Chiger S, Stiller B, Dumfarth J, Morales DL. Worldwide Experience of a Durable Centrifugal Flow Pump in Pediatric Patients 2018. PMID:29551744 
16. Zinn MD, Wallendorf MJ, Simpson KE, Osborne AD, Kirklin JK, Canter CE. Impact of routine surveillance biopsy intensity on the diagnosis of moderate to severe cellular rejection and survival after pediatric heart transplantation. Pediatr Transplant. 2018;22(3):e13131. PMCID:PMC5903932  PMID:29377465 
17. Green DJ, Duong SQ, Burckart GJ, Sissung T, Price DK, Figg WD Jr, Brooks MM, Chinnock R, Canter C, Addonizio L, Bernstein D, Naftel DC, Zeevi A, Kirklin JK, Webber SA, Feingold B.. Association Between Thiopurine S-Methyltransferase (TPMT) Genetic Variants and Infection in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients Treated With Azathioprine: A Multi-Institutional Analysis Journal of Pediatric Parmacol Therapeutics. 2018. PMID:29720911 
18. Webber S, Zeevi A, Mason K, Addonizio L, Blume E, Dipchand A, Shaddy R, Feingold B, Canter C, Hsu D, Mahle W, Armstrong B3, Morrison Y, Ikle D, Diop H, Odim J ; CTOTC-04 Investigators. Pediatric heart transplantation across a positive crossmatch: First year results from the CTOTC-04 multi-institutional study American Journal of Transplant. 2018. PMID:29673058