Distinguished as a physician, consultant, scholar and educator in the realm of medicine, Dr. Saroja Bharati has accrued five decades of excellence in her industry. Since 2019, she has excelled as a cardiac pathology consultant with Advocate Children’s Hospital, maintaining responsibility for managing cases of patients with congenital heart disease and related disorders. First joining Advocate Children’s Hospital in their affiliated Maurice Lev Congenital Heart and Conduction System Center in 1994, she served in such a capacity until 2012 before being named the director of cardiac pathology in 2013. She also held similar positions at The Heart Institute for Children at Christ Hospital and Medical Center between 1988 and 1994.
Adjacent to her present appointment, Dr. Bharati is a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Texas Health Houston McGovern Medical School and at Rush Medical College, affiliated with the Rush University Medical Center, where she formerly served as a professor of pathology between 1989 and 2019. Further serving as a professor at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School between 1986 and 1988 and at the Pennsylvania State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Temple University between 1983 and 1988, she was also recognized as a visiting professor of pathology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago between 1996 and 2018 and as a clinical professor of pathology at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science between 1995 and 2017. Moreover, Dr. Bharati served as an assistant professor and associate professor in the department of pediatrics at Rush Medical College, concurrently serving as a research associate in medicine, research assistant professor of medicine, research associate professor of medicine and full professor at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Dr. Bharati is licensed to practice medicine in Ohio and Illinois, having lent her expertise to a majority of all University hospitals across the nation – including Ivy League schools – and abroad as an invited speaker. In this regard, she has disseminated her scholarly research in professional peer-reviewed journals, particularly as the senior author of “Pathology of Congenital Heart Disease: A Personal Experience with more than 6,300 Congenitally Malformed Hearts,” a two-volume series, in 1996. Prior, she was the senior author of “Cardiac Conduction System in Unexplained Sudden Death” in 1990, among other prominent works. Among the many highlights of her medical career, Dr. Bharati is especially gratified to have worked in conjunction with Dr. Maurice Lev, a highly regarded expert on congenital heart issues, in collaborative research on cardiac issues.
Civically, Dr. Bharati accepted an appointment as president of the Chicago Medical Society from 2007 to 2008 and, thereafter, served as chairperson of the board from 2008 to 2009. Bestowed with a myriad of accolades throughout her career, she is a fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society and the American College of Cardiology and received the Woman in Science Award from the American Medical Women’s Association in 2004.