Dr. Ashish Saini

Cardiology

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

American Board of Pediatrics

Pediatric Cardiology

Medical School: Government Medical College & Hospital

Residency: William Beaumont Children's Hospital

Fellowship: Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Dr. Saini is a pediatric and adult congenital cardiologist. Originally from India, he graduated from Government Medical College and Hospital, in Chandigarh, India, where he also completed a residency in pediatrics. He went on to complete an additional residency in pediatrics at William Beaumont Children’s Hospital in Michigan and a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital in Pennsylvania. Dr. Saini served as medical staff for 10 years at the Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Center at Akron Children’s Hospital and The Cleveland Clinic before moving to the Hampton Roads area.

Dr. Saini has a special interest in adult congenital heart disease, Fontan circulation, congenital heart disease in pregnancy, Turner syndrome, Kawasaki disease, aortopathies, echocardiography and exercise stress testing. He is certified by the American Board Pediatrics in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology, the American Board of Internal Medicine in adult congenital heart disease and certified through the National Board of Echocardiography.

Dr. Saini is a member of the American College of Cardiology, International Society of Adult Congenital Heart Disease, and the American Society of Echocardiography

Outside of medicine, Dr. Saini is an avid sports follower. He enjoys watching multiple sports and particularly enjoys playing field hockey and cricket. He enjoys spending time with his wife and three daughters. He is an amateur golfer and enjoys travel and visiting museums and national parks.

• Adult congenital heart disease
• Echocardiography (transthoracic and transesophageal)
• Congenital heart disease in pregnancy
• Fontan circulation
• Turner syndrome
• Kawasaki disease
• Aortopathies

• 2024: Spring Award Nomination for Outstanding Physician for APP advocacy, Akron Children’s Hospital
• 2024: Akron's Top Doc
• 2014: Outstanding Fellow award
• 2002: Gold Medal in Pediatrics at the final professional examination at Punjab University, India
• 1995: Scholarship, National Talent Search Examination, India

Pal Saini A, Jamil S, Dulai M. Kikuchi’s Disease causing persistent fever and iliac lymphadenopathy in an eight year old boy. Clin Pediatr. 2010; 49:601-4.

Riggs T, Saini AP, Comstock CH, Lee W. Comparison of cardiac Z-score with cardiac asymmetry for prenatal screening of congenital heart disease. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2011; 38:332-6.

Saini AP, Wolfe LT, Millington KA, Myers JL, Clark JB. Occult coronary ostial obstruction late after arterial switch operation. J Card Surg. 2013; 28:308-11.

Saini AP, Ural S, Pauliks LB. Quantitation of fetal heart function with tissue Doppler velocity imaging – reference values for color Doppler velocities and comparison with pulsed wave Doppler imaging. Artif Organs 2013; 38:87-91.

Grageda M, Saini AP, Cyran SE, Trout L, Halstead S. Severe Cardiomyopathy in a child after iatrogenic fosphenytoin overdose. Clin Pediatr. 2014; 53:791–793.

Patel S, Saini AP, Weber HS. Transcatheter device closure of partial anomalous pulmonary venous return with “intrapulmonary duplicating drainage” – A newly described entity and a single center experience. Int J Cardiol. 2014; 174:770-1.

Ashish Saini, Serdar Ural, Linda Pauliks. The Effect of Maternal Diabetes on Fetal Heart Function - A Tissue Doppler Study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014; 63(12_S) A507.

Patel S, Saini AP, Nair A and Weber HS. Long term follow up following transcarotid balloon aortic valvuloplasty (TCBAV) for critical aortic valve stenosis (AS) utilizing continuous transesophageal echocardiographic (cTEE) guidance: A 20-year experience from the cath lab to the bedside. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2015 Nov; 86(5):821-7.

Saini AP, Cyran SE, Ettinger SM, Pauliks LB. Coronary artery occlusion after arterial switch operation in an asymptomatic 15-year-old boy. World J Clin Cases. 2016 Aug 16; 4(8):219-22.

Maliha Butt, Husban Halim, Ataul Qureshi, Ryan Koene, Su Aung, Tara Karamlou, Ashish Saini. A Tale of Three Chambers: Cor Triatriatatum Sinistrum. CASE (Phila). 2024 Mar; 8(3Part A): 221–225.

PG Thesis/Dissertation:
Study of Incidence of UTI in Young Children (3months-3 years) presenting with Fever without Focus. Medical doctorate thesis submitted to Punjab University, Chandigarh as part of completion of postgraduate training in pediatrics, MD (Pediatrics). http://gmch.gov.in/library/THESIS.pdf