Rate My Professor Emily Morell

Dr. Emily Morell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. As a pediatric cardiologist and critical care specialist, she cares for infants and children with critical congenital and acquired heart disease, encompassing preoperative and postoperative surgical management as well as care for those with medical cardiac conditions. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in May 2009 and a Doctor of Medicine from Harvard University in May 2013. Dr. Morell completed her residency in Pediatrics at UCSF in June 2016, a fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at UCSF in June 2019, and a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at Children's Hospital Los Angeles in June 2021. She joined the UCSF faculty in 2021.

Dr. Morell’s academic interests center on improving quality of life, prognostication, and parent-physician communication for children with advanced heart disease. Additionally, she investigates clinical outcomes in pediatric pulmonary hypertension and within the cardiac intensive care setting. Her scholarly contributions include numerous peer-reviewed articles, such as “Palliative Care Education in Pediatric Cardiology Fellowships: A Survey of Program Directors” published in Pediatric Cardiology in 2025; “MicroRNA Profiling to Inform Disease Classification, Severity, and Treatment Response in Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension” in the American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology in 2024; “A single institution anesthetic experience with catheterization of pediatric pulmonary hypertension patients” in Pulmonary Circulation in 2024; “Palliative Care Across the Life Span for Children With Heart Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association” in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes in 2023; and “Mortality from Pulmonary Hypertension in the Pediatric Cardiac ICU” in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine in 2021. Through her research and clinical work, Dr. Morell advances the understanding and management of complex pediatric cardiac conditions.