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Erica Del Grippo Del Grippo, DO

Cardiologist

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Children's Hospital, Delaware 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington, DE 19803

Biography

Erica Del Grippo, DO is an acute care cardiologist at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Cardiac Center. She is an assistant professor at Sidney Kimmel Thomas Jefferson University. She is the Director of the Single Ventricle Program at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, the Program Director of the Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship and the clinical champion for both PAC3 and NPCQIC. Dr. Del Grippo received her bachelor's degree at Villanova University. She was a pediatric resident at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Children's Hospital in Wilmington, DE. She then moved on to pediatric cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital for Children. Her research goals include: readmissions on the cardiac acute care unit, interstage reinterventions and single ventricle tube wean feedings. Dr. Del Grippo also works with the cardiac ICU team to help facilitate Quality and safety among transfers to the acute care unit.

Fellowship

  • Pediatric Cardiology - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 2018

Residency

  • Pediatrics - Jeff Medical College/dupont Hospital for Children, 2015

Education

  • DO - Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2012

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Pediatrics/General Pediatrics
  • American Board of Pediatrics/Pediatric Cardiology

  • Pediatric Cardiology

  • Challenges, Preparations, and Recommendations; Journal of Family Nursing; (2026).

  • Practice Patterns in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Presurgical Conferences: A Multicenter Survey Study; Pediatric Cardiology; (2025).

  • Structured Tube Weaning Using the Hunger Provocation Method in Infants with Single Ventricle Heart Defects: A Multicenter Study; Pediatric Cardiology; (2025).

  • Electrocardiogram Abnormalities in Children With Lyme Arthritis; Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal; (2024).

  • Deep Learning Algorithms to Detect Murmurs Associated With Structural Heart Disease; Journal of the American Heart Association; (2023).

  • High Acuity Therapy Variation Across Pediatric Acute Care Cardiology Units; Pediatric Cardiology; (2021).

  • Echocardiographic assessment of ventricular function; Progress in Pediatric Cardiology; (2020).

  • A Standardized Cardiac Protocol for Pediatric Drug Ingestion Hospital Admissions; Pediatric Quality and Safety; (2019).

  • Variation in care practices across pediatric acute care cardiology units; Congenital Heart Disease; (2019).

  • Cardiac morphology for the millennial cardiology fellow; Congenital Heart Disease; (2018).

  • Approach to the adolescent with chest pain; Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews; (2015).