Melissa Campbell Evans, MD, FAAP

Dr. Graham is the Children’s Heart Program Chair in Pediatric Cardiac and Congenital Heart Disease and Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina where he serves as the Chief of Pediatric Cardiology. Dr. Graham previously served as the Director of the Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Training Program and the Director of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at MUSC. He received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University and medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Dr. Graham completed pediatric residency, pediatric cardiology fellowship, and pediatric cardiac critical care fellowship training at the Medical University of South Carolina. He joined the faculty at MUSC in 2005. Dr. Graham has expertise in pediatric cardiac critical care with special interest in single ventricle physiology and the perioperative management of neonates. Dr. Graham’s research, supported by NIH R01 funding, focuses on improving outcomes for children undergoing cardiac operations, perioperative pharmacologic therapies, and elucidating the inflammatory response to cardiopulmonary bypass and he has authored almost 100 publications in this area. He serves as the co-PI for MUSC’s participation as a Pediatric Heart Network core site. He participates in many multi-institutional clinical trials, has presented his work at national and international meetings, and has been the recipient of numerous awards for his research. Dr. Graham also serves as the Chair of the Early Career and Mentoring Committee for the American Heart Association’s Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young and as a member of the Cardiology sub-board of the American Board of Pediatrics.

Nagraj Kasi, MBBS, MD is a highly skilled physician specializing in Pediatric Gastroenterology in Charleston, SC. With expertise in acute and chronic liver disease as well as pediatric liver transplant, Dr. Kasi provides comprehensive care to his patients. Dr. Kasi received his medical education and training from prestigious institutions such as Columbia University Medical Center and the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He is dedicated to delivering exceptional healthcare and is fluent in English.Generated from the website

Dr. Ramin Eskandari grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan and received his bachelors in science in biology/neurobiology at the University of Michigan. After college Dr. Eskandari lived in Switzerland while working at a sports camp for kids. This was followed but two more years of international travel while receiving his Master's in Medical Science. He participated in research projects in artificial vision and hydrocephalus, fueling his future research interests in pediatric hydrocephalus and brain injury.Ramin Eskandari is an associate professor of neurosurgery and chief of pediatric neurosurgery at the Medical University of South Carolina. He holds adjunct positions in the Departments of Pediatrics (Child Neurology), Surgery (Plastic Surgery) and Immunology/Microbiology (Director of Pediatric Brain Injury and Hydrocephalus Research). His clinical expertise focuses on the surgical management of children with disorders of the brain and spine, minimally invasive methods for treating pediatric neurosurgical disorders, and endoscopic treatment of multiple disorders including complex hydrocephalus and brain tumors. Dr. Eskandari has always had a very fervent desire to maintain basic science research alongside clinical therapeutics. He opened the first pediatric hydrocephalus and brain jury research laboratory in South Carolina in 2014 and has maintained active research through internal, state level and philanthropic grant funding. Currently, his laboratory has invented a novel cell culture model of elevated intracranial pressure and has collaborated on a novel medical therapeutic to prevent progressive brain injury and hydrocephalus in neonates with brain hemorrhage.