Jennifer Co-Vu

Jennifer Co-Vu, M.D.

Associate Professor

Department: MD-COGNITAL HRT CTR EXCELLENCE
Business Phone: (352) 273-5422
Business Email: jcovu@mail.ufl.edu

About Jennifer Co-Vu

Hi, my name is Dr. Co-Vu and I serve as the director of the Fetal Cardiac Program at the UF Health Congenital Heart Center, the director of the UF Health Congenital Heart Center Single Ventricle Home Monitoring Program and as one of the pediatric cardiologists in the Turner Syndrome Center. My academic appointments include serving as clinical assistant professor in the department of radiology, University of Florida College of Medicine and course director for fourth-year elective pediatric cardiology and pediatric cardiology.

I graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines. I received my medical degree from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, Manila, Philippines. I completed my senior fellowship in non-invasive cardiac imaging at Boston Children’s Hospital and my pediatrics residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center. I was chief fellow in pediatric cardiology at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin at Herma Heart Institute in Milwaukee, where I also completed my pediatric cardiology fellowship PGY-5 and PGY-6. I completed my PGY-4 pediatric cardiology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Children’s Hospital, Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Diseases in Cleveland. My expertise is in noninvasive cardiac imaging, including cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, cardiac computed tomography, or CT, and fetal echocardiography as well as treatment of fetal heart disease, and transesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography. I also have expertise in the care of infants and children with complex congenital heart disease, such as hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

Accomplishments

Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society Clinical Teaching Award for Excellence in Clinical Instruction
2007 · University of Illinois at Chicago
Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award to an Outstanding Resident Role Model
2006 · University of Illinois at Chicago

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2014-2018
MDT7400 Elect Top/Pediatrics
2018
MDC7400 Pediatric Clerkship

Board Certifications

  • Pediatric Cardiology
    American Board of Pediatrics
  • Pediatrics
    American Board of Pediatrics

Clinical Profile

Specialties
  • Pediatrics
Subspecialties
  • Pediatric Cardiology
Areas of Interest
  • Congenital heart disease
  • Echocardiography (ECHO) – Children
  • Fetal development
  • Fetal echocardiography
  • Fetal heart monitoring
  • Heart CT scan
  • Heart MRI
  • Heart murmurs
  • Imaging and radiology
  • Pediatric heart surgery

Publications

2024
Coarctation Duration and Severity Predict Risk of Hypertension Precursors in a Preclinical Model and Hypertensive Status Among Patients.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979). [DOI] 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.123.22142. [PMID] 38501250.
2024
Coarctation duration and severity predict risk of hypertension precursors in a preclinical model and hypertensive status among patients.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences. [DOI] 10.1101/2023.10.30.23297766. [PMID] 37961634.
2023
Reflections After ACC.23 From the Council of the Women in Cardiology.
JACC. Case reports. 21 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jaccas.2023.101966. [PMID] 37719295.
2022
A Comprehensive Approach to the Management of Patients With HLHS and Related Malformations: An Analysis of 83 Patients (2015-2021).
World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery. 13(5):664-675 [DOI] 10.1177/21501351221088030. [PMID] 35511494.
2022
Combined Hybrid Procedure and VAD Insertion in 9 High-Risk Neonates and Infants With HLHS.
The Annals of thoracic surgery. 114(3):809-816 [DOI] 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.05.073. [PMID] 34186096.
2022
Palliation Plus Ventricular Assist Device Insertion in 15 Neonates and Infants With Functionally Univentricular Circulation.
The Annals of thoracic surgery. 114(4):1412-1418 [DOI] 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.02.051. [PMID] 35304109.
2020
Optimized Computed Tomography Angiography Protocol for the Evaluation of Thrombus in Patients with Fontan Anatomy.
Pediatric cardiology. 41(8):1601-1607 [DOI] 10.1007/s00246-020-02417-9. [PMID] 32785745.
2019
Impact of 3D Printouts in Optimizing Surgical Results for Complex Congenital Heart Disease.
World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery. 10(5):533-538 [DOI] 10.1177/2150135119852316. [PMID] 31496399.
2019
Left Ventricular Aneurysm Following Blunt-Force Trauma in a Child.
CASE (Philadelphia, Pa.). 3(1):39-42 [DOI] 10.1016/j.case.2018.08.002. [PMID] 30828683.
2018
Effect of prenatal diagnosis on hospital costs in complete transposition of the great arteries.
Prenatal diagnosis. [DOI] 10.1002/pd.5271. [PMID] 29675828.
2017
Maternal hyperoxygenation: A potential therapy for congenital heart disease in the fetuses? A systematic review of the current literature.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.). 34(12):1822-1833 [DOI] 10.1111/echo.13722. [PMID] 29287137.
2016
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Findings Late After the Arterial Switch Operation.
Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging. 9(9) [DOI] 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.116.004618. [PMID] 27601366.
2016
Left Ventricular Metastasis in Neuroblastoma: A Case Report.
Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology. 38(1):74-7 [DOI] 10.1097/MPH.0000000000000439. [PMID] 26479997.
2015
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging-based computational fluid dynamics/fluid-structure interaction pilot study to detect early vascular changes in pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes.
Pediatric cardiology. 36(4):851-61 [DOI] 10.1007/s00246-014-1071-7. [PMID] 25577225.
2015
Goldenhar Syndrome Associated with Extensive Arterial Malformations.
Case reports in pediatrics. 2015 [DOI] 10.1155/2015/954628. [PMID] 26688769.
2015
Pocket echocardiography system for detection of patent ductus arteriosus in neonates.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.). 32(2):319-24 [DOI] 10.1111/echo.12656. [PMID] 24919825.
2014
Ventricular septal defect.
Orphanet journal of rare diseases. 9 [DOI] 10.1186/s13023-014-0144-2. [PMID] 25523232.
2013
Coarctation of the aorta in late adolescence.
The Journal of pediatrics. 162(3):646-646.e1 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jpeds.2012.09.022. [PMID] 23102791.
2010
A rare case of hypoplastic left heart syndrome and scimitar syndrome: value of neonatal cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.
Pediatric cardiology. 31(5):739-40 [DOI] 10.1007/s00246-010-9675-z. [PMID] 20195854.

Grants

Apr 2023 – Mar 2024
1/2 CORD-CHD: Clamp OR Delay among neonates with Congenital Heart Disease
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL via NATL INST OF HLTH NHLBI
Jul 2022 – Jun 2023
Predictive modeling of acute rejection in pediatric heart transplant recipients
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER via NATL INST OF HLTH NHLBI
Dec 2016 – Nov 2022
Effects of maternal cortisol on perinatal cardiac metabolism and function
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NICHD

Education

Fellowship – Advanced Imaging
2010 · Children's Hospital, Boston
Fellowship – Pediatric Cardiology
2009 · Medical college of Wisconsin
Fellowship – Pediatric Cardiology
2007 · Children's Hospital, Cleveland
Residency – Pediatrics
2006 · University of Illinois at Chicago
Medical Degree
2001 · University of the Philippines
Bachelor of Science
1996 · University of the Philippines

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 273-5422
Emails:
Business:
jcovu@mail.ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO Box 100296
GAINESVILLE FL 32610
Business Street:
1600 SW ARCHER RD
UF CONGENITAL HEART CENTER
GAINESVILLE FL 32610