Jodie Kay Votava-smith MD

Jodie K. Votava-Smith is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Southern California (USC) in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 2000, and then attended Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons where she received her Doctor of Medicine in 2004. She completed her internship and residency in pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007, and a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center in 2011. She then completed an additional year of training in fetal cardiology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in 2012. Dr. Votava-Smith is a board certified pediatrician since 2007 with subspecialty board certification in pediatric cardiology since 2012.

Dr. Votava-Smith is actively involved in the detection and pre-term management of fetuses with congenital heart disease, and she continues to care for these infants after they are born both during their hospital stay, and after they are discharged home. She is a representative of the Heart Institute at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles working closely with the Institute for Maternal Fetal Health (IMFH) at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center (HPMC) to care for fetuses diagnosed with major congenital malformations. This collaboration has provided her the unique opportunity to study the outcomes of fetuses with critical heart lesions, and develop new strategies to improve both prenatal and postnatal management.