Animesh (Aashoo) Tandon, MD, MS, is practicing pediatric cardiologist, Director of Cardiovascular Innovation, and Associate Staff at Cleveland Clinic Children’s.

His current research interests focus on the development and use of wearable and other monitoring devices; the collection and analysis of big data through machine learning and the development of predictive analytics; 3D printing, 3D visualization, virtual reality, and augmented reality in congenital heart disease; and the use of cardiac MRI (CMR) to improve prognostication for children and those with congenital heart disease. He serves as the HTAG liaison to the AHA Young Hearts Committee. He also advises companies looking to innovate in the wearable and congenital heart disease spaces.

Dr. Tandon graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in 2003. During his medical training at the University of Michigan Medical School, he performed a research fellowship at the NINDS/NIH through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute/NIH Research Scholars (Cloister) Program. Dr. Tandon completed his pediatric residency and categorical pediatric cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. During fellowship, he earned a Masters in Clinical and Translational Research from the University of Cincinnati. He then completed an advanced imaging fellowship at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta/Emory University. He was most recently at UT Southwestern.