Department of Pediatrics

Clinical Interests

My responsibilities as the medical director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) and co-leader of the CICU Unit Based Joint Practice Team are mainly clinical, however, I devote significant effort to translational research as a site PI for a multicenter NIH study evaluating the T3 data acquisition and display platform as well as the IDO2 algorithm in the care of critically ill children with cardiac disease.

Education

• MD, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1997

Training

• Residency , Bnai-zion Medical Center, 1997 - 2001
• Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, 2002 - 2005
• Fellow, Pediatric Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 2005 - 2007

Licensure and Board Certification

• 1997Israel Health Ministry license to practice medicine
• 2001General Pediatrics – Israel Health Ministry, license
• 2002Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
• 2007MO, State of Missouri Medical License
• 2019 - PresAmerican Board of Pediatrics
• 2020 - PresAmerican Board of Pediatrics/Critical Care Medicine

Honors and Awards

• Award of Excellence (cum laude) for graduate M.D. thesis, 1997
• Best Doctors in America, 2015 - Pres
• Best Doctors in Saint Louis, 2015 - Pres

Recent Publications view all (45)

Publication Co-Authors

James Kemp, M.D.

Tara M. Neumayr, M.D.

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

Mary E. Hartman, M.D., M.P.H.

Charles Canter, M.D.

Ahmed, Said, M.D., Ph.D.

Stuart Friess, M.D.

Brian Gage

Jennifer N. Avari Silva, M.D.

R. Mark Grady, M.D.

Kristin Guilliams, MD MSCI

David Balzer, M.D.

Mark C. Johnson, M.D.

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

1. Kwaku D Tawiah, Caroline E. Franks, Jessica Tang, Avihu Z. Gazit, Dennis Dietzen, Christopher W. Farnsworth. Comparison between BNP and NT-proBNP in pediatric populations Clinical Biochemistry. 2022;5. PMID:35940296 
2. Nikoleta S. Kolovos, Avihu Z. Gazit. Early Extubation Following Congenital Heart Surgery: Time to move on. PCCM. 2022;23(7):566-567. PMID:35797573 
3. Adam W. Lowry, Craig Futterman, and Avihu Z. Gazit. Acute Vital Signs Changes Are Underrepresented By A Conventional Electronic Health Record When Compared To Automatically Acquired Data In A Single Center Tertiary Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit JAMIA. 2022. PMID:35301538 
4. Michael Goldsmith, Vinay M. Nadkarni, Craig Futterman, Avihu Z. Gazit, Dimitar Baronov, Adam Tomczac, Peter C. Laussen, Joshua W. Salvin. Use of a Risk Analytic Algorithm to Inform Weaning From Vasoactive Medication in Patients Following Pediatric Cardiac Surgery CCE. 2021;3(11):e0563. doi:10.1097/CCE.0000000000000563  PMCID:PMC8556040  PMID:34729493 
5. Merritt, Taylor, Montgomery, Brock, Gazit, Avihu Z, Carvajal, Horacio, Canter, Matthew, Shepard, Mark, Mehegan, Mary, Abarbanell, Aaron, Eghtesady, Pirooz, Nath, Dilip. . Evolution of Ventricular Assist Device Support Strategies in Children with Single Ventricle Physiology: A Single Center Experience. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2021;S0003-4975(21):01758-6. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.09.043  PMID:34710386 
6. Barron, L.M, Vogel, A.M, Spinella, P.C., Colvin, R.M. Baltagi, S.A., CreveCoeur, T, Doctor, A, Gazit, A.Z., Lukas, K, Mehegan, M, O’Connor, N, Said, A.S.3 Shepard, M, Wallendorf, M, Zarate Rodriguez, J, Lin, J.C.. Comprehensive Context-Responsive Anticoagulation Guideline Use Is Associated With Reduced Bleeding and Thrombotic Complications and Less RBC Transfusion In Neonatal And Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Front. Cardiovasc. Med. 2021. doi:doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2021.637106  
7. Erin Barker, MD; Arun Saini, MD, MS, FAAP; Avihu Z. Gazit, MD; Sirine Baltagi, MD; Brian F. Gage, MD, MSc; Philip C. Spinella, MD, FCCM. TEG Platelet Mapping and Impedance Aggregometry to Predict Platelet Transfusion during Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Pediatric Patients Frontiers. 2019. PMCID:PMC6921926  PMID:31921722 
8. 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;142:74-80. PMID:31325555 
9. Katie L. Mowers, Kathleen E. Simpson, Avihu Z. Gazit , Pirooz Eghtesady, Charles E. Canter , Chesney D. Castleberry . Moderate-severe primary graft dysfunction after pediatric heart transplantation. Pediatric transplantation. 2019. PMID:30609166 
10. Avihu Z. Gazit. Outcome prediction following complex congenital heart disease operations-The intensivist perspective. Pediatric Critical care Medicine. 2018;19(11):1083-1084. PMID:30395109 
11. Ahmed Said, Mary McBride, Avihu Z. Gazit. Successful pre-operative bridge with ECMO in 3 neonates with D-TGA and pulmonary hypertension. Pediatric Cardiology. 2018;28(9):1175-1177. PMID:29991376 
12. Ichord R, Silverstein FS, Slomine BS, Telford R, Christensen J, Holubkov R, Dean JM, Moler FW; THAPCA Trial Group. Neurologic outcomes in pediatric cardiac arrest survivors enrolled in the THAPCA trials. Neurology. 2018;91(2):e123-e131. PMID:29884735 
13. Slomine BS, Silverstein FS, Christensen JR, Holubkov R, Telford R, Dean JM, Moler FW; Therapeutic Hypothermia after Paediatric Cardiac Arrest (THAPCA) Trial Investigators. Neurobehavioural outcomes in children after In-Hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. 2018;124:80-89. PMID:29305927 
14. Ryan A. Romans, MD ; Steven M. Schwartz, MD ; John M. Costello, MD, MPH ; Nikhil K. Chanani, MD ; Parthak Prodhan, MBBS ; Avihu Z. Gazit, MD ; Andrew H. Smith, MD, MSCI, MMHC ; David S. Cooper, MD, MPH ; Jeffrey Alten, MD ; Kshitij P. Mistry, MD ; Wenying Zhang ; Janet E. Donohue ; Michael Gaies, MD, MPH, MS . Epidemiology of Noninvasive Ventilation in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Units. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2017. PMID:28742724 
15. Neumayr TM, Gill J, Fitzgerald JC, Gazit AZ, Pineda JA, Berg RA, Dean JM, Moler FW, Doctor A. Identifying Risk for Acute Kidney Injury in Infants and Children Following Cardiac Arrest. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2017. PMID:28737594 
16. 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. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2017. PMID:28720202 
17. Moler FW, Silverstein FS, Holubkov R, Slomine BS, Christensen JR, Nadkarni VM, Meert KL, Browning B, Pemberton VL, Page K, Gildea MR, Scholefield BR, Shankaran S, Hutchison JS, Berger JT, Ofori-Amanfo G, Newth CJ, Topjian A, Bennett KS, Koch JD, Pham N, Chanani NK, Pineda JA, Harrison R, Dalton HJ, Alten J, Schleien CL, Goodman DM, Zimmerman JJ, Bhalala US, Schwarz AJ, Porter MB, Shah S, Fink EL, McQuillen P, Wu T, Skellett S, Thomas NJ, Nowak JE, Baines PB, Pappachan J, Mathur M, Lloyd E, van der Jagt EW, Dobyns EL, Meyer MT, Sanders RC Jr, Clark AE, Dean JM; THAPCA Trial Investigators.. Therapeutic Hypothermia after In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children. NEJM. 2017;376(4):318-329. PMID:28118559 
18. Gazit AZ, Sweet SC, Grady RM, Boston US, Huddleston CB, Hoganson DM, Shepard M, Raithel S, Mehegan M, Doctor A, Spinella PC, Eghtesady P. Recommendations for utilization of the paracorporeal lung assist device in neonates and young children with pulmonary hypertension. Pediatr Transplant. 2016;20(2):256-70. PMID:26899454 
19. Hoganson DM, Boston US, Gazit AZ, Canter CE, Eghtesady P. Successful bridge through transplantation with berlin heart ventricular assist device in a child with failing fontan. Ann Thorac Surg. 2015;99(2):707-9. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.04.064  PMID:25639417 
20. Saini A, Hartman ME, Gage BF, Said A, Gazit AZ, Eghtesady P, Boston US, Spinella PC. Incidence of Platelet Dysfunction by Thromboelastography-Platelet Mapping in Children Supported with ECMO: A Pilot Retrospective Study. Front Pediatr. 2015;3:116. doi:10.3389/fped.2015.00116  PMID:26779465 
21. Gazit AZ, Kemp JS. Cerebral tissue oxygenation index and SIDS. Pediatrics. 2014;134(3):598-9. doi:10.1542/peds.2014-1875  PMID:25157009 
22. Hoganson DM, Gazit AZ, Boston US, Sweet SC, Grady RM, Huddleston CB, Eghtesady P. Paracorporeal lung assist devices as a bridge to recovery or lung transplantation in neonates and young children. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014;147(1):420-6. PMID:24199759 
23. Gazit AZ, Li A, Choi JS, Miquerol L, Jay PY. Ex vivo, microelectrode analysis of conduction through the AV node of wild-type and Nkx2-5 mutant mouse hearts as guided by a Cx40-eGFP transgenic reporter. Physiol Rep. 2014;2(4):e00285. doi:10.14814/phy2.285  PMCID:PMC4001877  PMID:24771692 
24. Boston US, Fehr J, Gazit AZ, Eghtesady P. Paracorporeal lung assist device: an innovative surgical strategy for bridging to lung transplant in an infant with severe pulmonary hypertension caused by alveolar capillary dysplasia. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2013. doi:10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.06.014  PMID:23871141 
25. Hoganson DM, Gazit AZ, Sweet SC, Grady RM, Huddleston CB, Eghtesady P. Neonatal paracorporeal lung assist device for respiratory failure. Ann Thorac Surg. 2013;95(2):692-4. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.05.128  PMID:23336880 
26. Gazit AZ, Fehr J. Perioperative management of the pediatric cardiac transplantation patient. Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2011;13(5):425-43. doi:10.1007/s11936-011-0143-8  PMID:21773731 
27. Gazit AZ, Cooper DS. Emerging technologies. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2011;12(4 Suppl):S55-61. doi:10.1097/PCC.0b013e3182211c2b  PMID:22129551 
28. Gazit AZ, Sweet SC, Grady RM, Huddleston CB. First experience with a paracorporeal artificial lung in a small child with pulmonary hypertension. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2011;141(6):e48-50. doi:10.1016/j.jtcvs.2011.02.005  PMID:21420104 
29. Gazit AZ, Canter CE. Impact of pulmonary vascular resistances in heart transplantation for congenital heart disease. Curr Cardiol Rev. 2011;7(2):59-66. doi:10.2174/157340311797484213  PMCID:PMC3197090  PMID:22548028 
30. Gazit AZ, Singh GK, Johnson MC. To-and-fro murmur in the young due to major congenital cardiac defects: is cardiac auscultation obsolete? Cardiol Young. 2010;20(6):707-8. doi:10.1017/S1047951110001393  PMID:20887646 
31. Gazit AZ. Dexmedetomidine and pulmonary artery pressure in the pediatric cardiac surgery patient--A new insight. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2010;11(5):634-5. doi:10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181d505e3  PMID:20823739 
32. Basnet S, Schneider M, Gazit A, Mander G, Doctor A. Fresh goat's milk for infants: myths and realities--a review. Pediatrics. 2010;125(4):e973-7. doi:10.1542/peds.2009-1906  PMID:20231186 
33. Gazit AZ, Huddleston CB, Checchia PA, Fehr J, Pezzella AT. Care of the pediatric cardiac surgery patient--part 2. Curr Probl Surg. 2010;47(4):261-376. doi:10.1067/j.cpsurg.2009.12.003  PMID:20207257 
34. Gazit AZ, Huddleston CB, Checchia PA, Fehr J, Pezzella AT. Care of the pediatric cardiac surgery patient--part 1. Curr Probl Surg. 2010;47(3):185-250. doi:10.1067/j.cpsurg.2009.11.006  PMID:20159189 
35. Gazit AZ, Huddleston CB, Checchia PA, Fehr J, Pezzella AT. In brief. Curr Probl Surg. 2010;47(3):182-3. doi:10.1067/j.cpsurg.2009.11.005  PMID:20159188 
36. Gazit AZ, Gandhi SK, C Canter C. Mechanical circulatory support of the critically ill child awaiting heart transplantation. Curr Cardiol Rev. 2010;6(1):46-53. doi:10.2174/157340310790231617  PMCID:PMC2845794  PMID:21286278 
37. McBride ME, Huddleston CB, Balzer DT, Goel D, Gazit AZ. Hypoplastic left heart associated with scimitar syndrome. Pediatr Cardiol. 2009;30(7):1037-8. doi:10.1007/s00246-009-9479-1  PMID:19495846 
38. Gazit AZ, Oren PP. Pharmaceutical management of decompensated heart failure syndrome in children: current state of the art and a new approach. Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2009;11(5):403-9. PMID:19846039 
39. Gazit AZ, Gandhi SK. Pediatric primary cardiac tumors: diagnosis and treatment. Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2007;9(5):399-406. PMID:17897569 
40. Gazit AZ, Avari JN, Balzer DT, Rhee EK. Electrocardiographic diagnosis of myocardial ischemia in children: is a diagnostic electrocardiogram always diagnostic? Pediatrics. 2007;120(2):440-4. doi:10.1542/peds.2007-0170  PMID:17671071 
41. Gazit AZ, Singh GK, Shumway J, Johnson MC, Ludomirsky A. Fetal cardiac rhabdomyoma: a sheep or a wolf? J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2007;20(4):343-8. doi:10.1080/14767050601158297  PMID:17437243 
42. Shaoul R, Gazit A, Weller B, Berman S, Jaffe M. Neurological manifestations of an acute abdomen in children. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2005;21(9):594-7. PMID:16160664 
43. Lorber A, Gazit AZ, Khoury A, Schwartz Y, Freudental F. Percutaneous transaortic occlusion of patent ductus arteriosus using a new versatile angiographic and delivery catheter. Pediatr Cardiol. 2003;24(5):482-3. doi:10.1007/s00246-002-0235-z  PMID:14627318 
44. Lorber A, Gazit AZ, Khoury A, Schwartz Y, Mandel H. Cardiac manifestations in thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia syndrome. Pediatr Cardiol. 2003;24(5):476-81. doi:10.1007/s00246-002-0215-3  PMID:14627317 
45. Netzer D, Gazit A, Suaad S, Milo S, Rozenberg B, Bomzon A, Katz Y. [Carbon monoxide: an essential modulator of blood vessel tone]. Harefuah. 1997;132(7):494-9. PMID:9153923