Douglas R Allen, MD
Pediatric Cardiology
Bio & Overview
Douglas Allen, MD, is a pediatric cardiologist at UVA Health Children’s Hospital. He attended the College of William and Mary, and earned his medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). He stayed on at VCU to complete his residency training in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric cardiology, and joined the faculty in 2001 as an assistant professor of pediatric cardiology. In 2015, he and his colleague Dr. Albrecht formed UVA Health Pediatric Cardiology Richmond to bring the extensive resources of UVA Health Children’s Hospital to patients in Richmond.
Dr. Allen served as medical director for the Virginia chapter of the Children’s Heart Foundation from 2005-2012, and is a member of Mended Little Hearts of Central Virginia, a nonprofit that helps support pediatric heart patients and their families.
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Infants (0-2)
Children (2-12)
Adolescents (12-21)
- Primary Education
- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine (1995)
- Residency
- VCU Health System - MCV Hospitals (1998)
- Fellowship
- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine (2001)
- Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatric Cardiology)
Highlights
Dr. Douglas Allen profile video
[MUSIC PLAYING] - I'm Douglas Allen, pediatric cardiologist here at UVA Children's Hospital. I, along with my colleague Dr. Albrecht, formed UVA pediatric cardiology Richmond, which is a outreach clinic in Richmond, Virginia. Our practice is locally staffed, locally operated, and provides children and families in Richmond the opportunity to have access to all the expertise that UVA medical center brings. We're able to provide the full breadth the diagnostic evaluations from EKGs and prolonged monitoring, echocardiography, fetal echocardiography, which allows us to diagnose congenital heart disease in utero. All of the data that we gather, all the imaging that's performed in that practice is available for review by my colleagues here at UVA immediately and therefore, I have access to international experts and pediatric electrophysiology, transplant medicine, and congenital heart surgery and can review patient cases with them in real time. As a father of two children, I recognize that for parents, there's nothing more important in the world than the well-being of their children and I see patients on a daily basis whose parents are concerned that there may be something dreadfully wrong with their child. Fortunately, the vast majority of my patients don't have anything so critically wrong with them and they're able to leave my office after our evaluations with peace of mind and reassurance that their child is going to be just fine. [MUSIC PLAYING]
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