Jason Z. Stoller MD

Dr. Jason z. Stoller is from the department of pediatrics, the University of Pennsylvania school of medicine, and the children’s hospital of Philadelphia. He is a neonatologist with a research interest in the genetic basis of cardiac development and the molecular mechanisms of congenital heart disease. One of his research projects focuses on understanding DiGeorge syndrome, a relatively common syndrome affecting newborns. Patients with DiGeorge syndrome can have a wide variety of problems including deformities of the head and face, speech problems due to improper separation of the oral and nasal cavities, cleft palate, absence or incomplete development of the thymus and parathyroid glands, and problems with the aortic arch and outflow tract of the heart. The cardiac defects associated with the syndrome.