Physician Profile

Eric S. Quivers, MD, joined Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in early 2005 and is the director of the hospital's new Preventive Cardiology Clinic. The clinic evaluates and treats children who have been diagnosed with or are at risk for conditions such as hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia or hypertension. Education and lifestyle change are two of the vehicles used to treat those young patients.

Most recently, Dr. Quivers was assistant professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine. At Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C., he was director of preventive cardiology and the exercise laboratory and medical director of the transplant cardiology program.

Dr. Quivers received his medical degree and completed his residency at Howard University College of Medicine and Howard University Hospital, Washington, D.C. He completed a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and a cardiovascular health fellowship.

He is a member of several notable professional organizations, including the American Medical Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, the Association of Black Cardiologists and the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.