Dr. Gina LaRocca is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and is affiliated with the Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Services as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Pediatrics. She is also an Assistant Attending Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Her board certifications include Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease.
A native New Yorker, Dr. LaRocca has had the opportunity to travel across the U.S. for her education. She received her Bachelor of Science degree at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA. In 1997, she received her Medical Degree (M.D.) from Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, NE. She then completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut Medical Center in Hartford, CT. Following her residency, she had the opportunity for a one-year fellowship in Hypertension at UCONN. Finally, she completed her combined 5-year fellowship training in Adult and Pediatric Cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center-NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. She has now joined the Weill Cornell faculty full-time.
Dr. LaRocca practices General Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, as well as Adult Congenital Cardiovascular Disease in the Starr Pavilion 4 at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell. Her practice includes patients with hypertension, coronary artery disease and its complications, valvular heart conditions, and those who have undergone heart surgery or interventional procedures, as well as adults who have been diagnosed with congenital heart disease as a child.
She works in close affiliation with all physicians in the Division of Cardiology, including sub-specialists in Cardiac Electrophysiology, Heart Failure, Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiac Catheterization, and Non-Invasive Testing. Dr. LaRocca has a special interest in non-invasive imaging with transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography both in adult cardiovascular disease as well as complex congenital heart disease. She also specializes in cardiac MRI to better delineate cardiovascular disease as well as congenital heart defects.
