Elsa Suh, MD

Dr. Suh is a Board-Certified Pediatric Cardiologist, who has been providing cardiac care for the Tampa Bay region for more than 25 years. She graduated from Smith College with High Honors in Biochemistry. She attended Duke School of Medicine and underwent her Pediatrics Internship and Residency training at New York University Medical Center. She was awarded by the American Heart Association to undergo Cardiac Immunology Research Fellowship at Rockefeller University prior to completing her clinical Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She received an additional Fellowship training in Interventional Cardiology at CHOP.  Following her fellowship trainings, she remained as a Pediatric Cardiology Attending and as a faculty member at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia /University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine before moving to Tampa. She started the new Pediatric Cardiac Program in Tampa and served this Tampa Bay community as a Pediatric Cardiologist subspecializing in Interventional Cardiology at both St. Joseph Hospital and Johns Hopkins-All Children’s Hospital. She has performed thousands of cardiac catheterization procedures and interventions during her career, whose ages range from fetus to elderly patients with congenital heart defects. She is also known as the “Surgeon’s Cardiologist” and has a close working relationship with Pediatric Cardiac Surgeons. As a firm believer in continuity of care, some of her patients now expand 2 generations. She has been cited as the Best Pediatric Cardiologist by Tampa Bay magazines for many years as well as Cambridge’s Who’s Who. She has always maintained her passion as a Pediatric Cardiologist and her duty for service as a clinician.  She has now joined the USF Department of Pediatrics to create a new Division of Pediatric Cardiology. She is fully committed to educate, train, and mentor the new generation of physicians, while continuing to serve the greater Tampa Bay community as a pediatric cardiologist.