Tyler H. Harris, MD

  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
  • Associate Director, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program
  • Director, Cardiac Exercise Lab, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Administrative Assistant: Robin Majsak

Dr. Harris is an academic pediatric cardiologist at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh with a clinical focus in inpatient cardiology care, Kawasaki Disease/MIS-C and medical education. He also has clinical roles in outpatient cardiology care as well as being the director of the exercise exercise lab. He is the Associate Fellowship Director for the Pediatric Cardiology as well as the rotation facilitator to the pediatric residency program. His research efforts focus on improving medical education through the use of innovative technology and curriculum in addition to improving the quality of inpatient and exercise lab care though research and quality improvement. He also has expertise in the care of patients with Kawasaki Disease and MIS-C.

Professional and Scientific Society Memberships

  • American Academy of Pediatrics, 2010-Present 
  • AAP Section of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Member of Working Group for Education and Training, 2013-Present 
  • Society of Pediatric Cardiology Training Program Directors, 2017-Present 
  • Association of Pediatric Program Directors, 2017-Present 

Education & Training

  • BA, Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 2002-2006
  • MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2006-2010
  • Residency in Pediatrics, Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, 2010-2013
  • Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology, Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, 2013-2016

Selected Publications

Knadler JJ, Penny DJ, Harris TH, Webb GD, Cabrera AG, Kyle WB. Strength in Numbers: Crowdsourcing the Most Relevant Literature in Pediatric Cardiology. Congenital Heart Disease 2018;00:1-5 PMID:30178626 

Utkarsh Kohli, Lavina Desai, Devyani Chowdhury, Ashraf S. Harahsheh, Alexandra B. Yonts, Annete Ansong, Arash Sabati, Hoang H. Nguyen, Tarique Hussain, Danyal Khan, David A. Parra, Jennifer A. Su, Jyoti K. Patel, Christina Ronai, Monique Bohun, Bishara J. Freij, Matthew J. O’Connor, Joseph W. Rosanno, Aamisha Gupta, Arash Salavitabar, Adam L. Dorfman, Jesse Hansen, Olivia Frosch, Elizabeth L. Profita, Shiraz Maskatia, Deepika Thacker, Shubhika Shrivastava, Tyler Harris, Brian Feingold, Stuart Berger, Michael Campbell, Salim F. Idriss, Srikant Das, Markus S. Renno, Ken Knecht, S. Yukiko Asaki, Sunil Patel, Ravi Ashwath, Renata Shih, John Phillips, Bibhuti Das, Preeti Ramachandran, Eyal Sagiv, Aarti H. Bhat, Jonathan N. Johnson, Nathaniel Taggart, Jason Imundo, Natasha Nakra, Shashank Behere, Anjlee Patel, Avichal Agarwal, Saif Aljemmali, Sean Lang, Sarosh Batlivala, Daniel E. Forsha, Gregory P. Conners, Jana Shaw, Frank C. Smith, Linda Pauliks, Joseph Vettukattil, Kenneth Shaffer, Stefanie Cheang, Sonia Voleti, Rajesh Shenoy, Rukmini Komarlu, Shea J. Ryan, Christopher Snyder, Neha Bansal, Madhu Sharma, Jeffrey Robinson, Sandra R. Arnold, Christine M. Salvatore, Madan Kumar, Michael Fremed, Julie S. Glickstein, Melissa Perrotta, William Orr, Tamika Rozema, Muthayipalayam Thirumoorthi, Charles J. Mullett, Jocelyn Y. Ang. mRNA Coronavirus-19 Vaccine-Associated Myopericarditis in Adolescents: A Survey Study. The Journal of Pediatrics, Dec 2021. PMID: 34952008

Pompa AG, Arora G, Harris TH. Effect of Treadmill Exercise Stress Testing on Troponin Levels in Children and Adolescents. Cardiology in the Young. Mar 2022. PMID: 35301970

Cesa L, Cunningham C, Harris TH, Sunseri W. A Review of Extraintestinal Manifestations & Medication-Induced Myocarditis and Pericarditis in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Cureus. 14(6): e26366.

Das N, Hill R, Trivedi M, Kenkre TS, Alsaied T, Feingold B, Harris TH, Christopher AB. Longitudinal Assessment of Cardiac Function Following Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Associated with COVID-19. Pediatr Cardiol. 2022 Jul 21:1–11. doi: 10.1007/s00246-022-02972-3. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35864203.

Jose J, Tierney ESS, Harahsheh AS, Dahdah N, Raghuveer G, Friedman KG, Khoury M, Hicar MD, Merves SA, Dallaire F, Farid P, Manlhiot C, Runeckles K, Misra N, Portman M, Ballweg JA, Lee S, Jain SS, Harris TH, Szmuszkovicz JR, Orr W, Larios G, McCrindle BW. COVID-19 Positive Versus Negative Complete Kawasaki Disease: A Study from the International Kawasaki Disease Registry. Pediatr Cardiol. 2023 Feb 14:1–9. doi: 10.1007/s00246-023-03109-w. PMID: 36786810; PMCID: PMC9926414.

Smith KL, Gordon EB, Gunsaulus ME, Christopher A, Olivieri LJ, Tadros SS, Harris T, Saraf AP, Kreutzer J, Feingold B, Alsaied T. Surrogates of Muscle Mass on Cardiac MRI Correlate with Exercise Capacity in Patients with Fontan Circulation. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2023; 12(7):2689. 

Harahsheh AS, Shah S, Dallaire F, Manlhiot C, Khoury M, Lee S, Fabi M, Mauriello D, Selamet Tierney ES, Sabati AA, Dionne A, Dahdah N, Choueiter N, Thacker D, Giglia TM, Truong DT, Jain S, Portman M, Orr WB, Harris TH, Szmuszkovicz JR, Farid P, McCrindle BW; International Kawasaki Disease Registry (IKDR). Kawasaki Disease in the Time of COVID-19 and MIS-C - The International Kawasaki Disease Registry. Can J Cardiol. 2023 Jun 6. PMID: 37290536. 

McCrindle BW, Harahsheh AS, Handoko R, Raghuveer G, Portman MA, Khoury M, Newburger JW, Lee S, Jain SS, Khare M, Dahdah N, Manlhiot C; Collaborator; Harris TH. International Kawasaki Disease Registry. SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children. N Engl J Med. 2023 Apr 27;388(17):1624-1626. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2215074. Epub 2023 Mar 22. PMID: 36947454.

Academic and Research Interests

  • Cardiology
  • Pediatrics 
  • Troponin
  • Medical Education
  • Kawasaki
  • MISC