Dr. Nitin Chanana is double board certified in General Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology with the American Board of Pediatrics.

He earned a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from PGIMS, Rohtak, India. Dr. Chanana completed residency training in General Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of New York (CHONY) at Columbia University, New York City in 2012. He thereafter completed 3-year fellowship training in Pediatric and Fetal Cardiology at Primary Children’s Hospital, University of Utah at Salt Lake City in 2015 and moved to El Paso.

Dr. Chanana has expertise and special interest in managing fetuses, children and adults with complex congenital heart disease especially single-ventricle patients. He co-manages children with Heart Transplant Centers for their pre-and-post heart transplant care.

He is author of several publications in the field of single ventricle physiology and pediatric heart transplantation. He has presented his research work in both national and international cardiology conferences. He received travel award from American Society of Echocardiography in 2014.

Dr. Chanana is pleased to partner with Dr. Kumar at Pediatric and Fetal Cardiology Associates, El Paso established in 2017. He loves living in El Paso with his wife Sushila, and their two children Parin and Ishita. When not seeing cardiac patients, he enjoys travelling, biking, hiking and seeing his kids engaged in music and sports.