Department of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
The Department of Pediatrics

Faculty Biography

The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston is dedicated to improving the health and welfare of all infants, children, and adolescents.


Steven Lorch, M.D.

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Education:

M.D., Emory University, Atlanta, GA

B.S., Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Clinical and Research Interests:

  1. Pediatric Cardiology

Publications (selected):

  • Lorch SM, Ludomirsky A, Singh GK. Maturational and growth-related changes in left ventricular longitudinal strain and strain rate measured by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography in healthy pediatric population.  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography.  2008 Nov;21(11):1207-15.
  • Lorch SM, Sharkey AM. Myocardial Velocity, Strain and Strain Rate Abnormalities in Healthy Obese Children.  Journal of the Cardometabolic Syndrome.  2(1):30-34.
  • Grange DK, Lorch SM, Cole PL, Singh GK.  Cantu Syndrome in a woman and her two daughters:  Further Confirmation of Autosomal Dominant Inheritance and Review of the Cardiac Manifestations.  American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A 140A:1673-1680, (2006).
  • inkead B, Lorch SM, Owens MJ, Nemeroff CB.  Sex- and estrous cycle-related differences in the effects of acute antipsychotic drug administration on neurotensin-containing neurons in the rat brain.  J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2000 Oct;295(1):205-11.

Faculty Biography

  • Dr. Steven M. Lorch
    Assistant Professor
  • Department of Pediatrics
    Division of Cardiology
  • University of Texas-Houston Medical School
    6431 Fannin Street, MSB 3.126
    Houston, Texas 77030
  • phone: (713) 500-5737
    e-mail: Steven.M.Lorch@uth.tmc.edu
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