Molly Weisert, MD

Molly Weisert, MD, is a pediatric cardiologist in the Heart Institute at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at USC, with a subspecialty in pediatric heart failure and transplant medicine. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a Bachelor of Science in cell and developmental biology and earned her medical degree from Saint Louis University School of Medicine.

Dr. Weisert completed her pediatric residency training and a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She then completed a fourth year of subspecialty training in pediatric heart failure and transplant medicine, also at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Weisert is a board-certified pediatrician and board-certified pediatric cardiologist.

Her current research interests include failed single ventricle physiology and improved monitoring of these patients. Dr. Weisert is actively involved in developing a comprehensive single ventricle program to better identify high-risk single ventricle patients. Her other area of interest is improving the understanding of the graft-recipient relationship and relative immunogenicity of grafts in pediatric heart transplant patients. The goal of this research is to develop a risk stratification system to personalize post-transplant immune suppression regimens.