Saraf, Anita, MD

Assistant Professor

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Dr. Anita Saraf is an Assistant Professor in the Heart Institute at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Saraf is fellowship-trained in adult congenital heart disease (ACHD). She holds dual academic appointments in the Department of Pediatrics and the Division of Cardiology in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. In addition to her position in the Heart Institute at UPMC Children’s, she also is a member of the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute.

She earned her doctorate in bioengineering from William Marsh Rice University in Houston, Texas, and her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Saraf then completed both her internal medicine residency and ACHD fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Dr. Saraf conducts research on biomarkers in ACHD, and is interested in how these biomarkers affect heart function. She is here to speak about Building care networks to Improve GUCH outcomes