For Patients:
To request an appointment, call 800.678.KIDS (5437) or fill out our online form.
For Referring Physicians:
To refer a patient, call Children's Direct at 800.678.HELP (4357).
Charles E Canter, MD
Cardiology-Pediatric - certified
Transplantation-Medical
*Pediatrics - certified
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
St. Louis Children's Hospital
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
For Patients:
To request an appointment, call 800.678.KIDS (5437) or fill out our online form.
For Referring Physicians:
To refer a patient, call Children's Direct at 800.678.HELP (4357).

2Nd Floor Suite D
Saint Louis, MO 63110
314.454.6095

1000 West 10Th Street
Rolla, MO 65401
573.458.7686
Education
Internship: St. Louis Children's Hospital
Residency: St. Louis Children's Hospital
Fellowship: St. Louis Children's Hospital
Health Plans Accepted
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Aetna HMO/Open Access |
Aetna Managed Choice POS |
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Aetna Medicare HMO |
Aetna Medicare Open Access (HMO/POS |
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Aetna Medicare PPO |
Aetna PPO |
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Baxter Regional PHO |
BCBS of IL PPO |
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BCBS/Anthem(Blue Access Choice PPO |
BCBS/Anthem(Blue Access PPO) |
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Beech Street/Capp Care PPO |
Best Doctors Inc |
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Capital Regional Medical Center PP |
Cigna Open Access HMO/POS |
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Cigna PPO |
CMR (Care Management Resources) |
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Community Care Network PPO |
CorVel PPO |
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Coventry Advantra HMO - Medicare |
Coventry HMO/POS |
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Coventry PPO |
Decatur Memorial Tertiary/Quarterna |
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First Health |
Great-West HMO/POS |
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Great-West Open Access |
Great-West PPO |
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Hannibal Health Network Tertiary |
Health Alliance HMO & PPO |
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HealthCare USA MC+ |
Healthlink Open Access/HMO/POS |
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Healthlink PPO |
HFN Inc. PPO |
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Home State-MC+ |
Humana Gold Choice PFFS - Medicare |
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Humana PPO/ChoiceCare Network |
HumanaChoice PPO-Medicare |
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Illinois Public Aid/Health Connect |
IPA Secondary to Medicare |
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Mail Handlers/CNA PPO |
Medicaid MO/ Missouri HealthNet |
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Medicare |
Mercy Health Plan HMO/POS |
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Mercy Health Plan PPO |
MO Medicaid Secondary to Medicare |
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MultiPlan PPO |
PPO Next/HealthStar |
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Primrose Tertiary/Quarternary |
Private Health Care Systems PPO |
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Providers Network of America |
Quincy Health Care Management |
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St. John's Health System Tertiary |
Tricare/Triwest Prime HMO/POS |
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Tricare/Triwest Standard/ Extra PPO |
Union Pacific RR Emp. Health System |
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United Healthcare Choice/Choice+ |
United Healthcare PPO/ Options |
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United Healthcare Select/Select+POS |
USA Managed Care Org |
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Wellborn HMO |
Spontaneous Echocardiographic Contrast Associated with Portosystemic Shunt Due to Persistent Patent Ductus Venosus.Toib A, Goldstein SB, Khanna G, Canter CE, Lee CK, Balzer DT, Singh GK.Congenit Heart Dis. 2011 Nov 30. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-0803.2011.00587.x. [Epub ahead of print]
- PMID:
- 22129147
- [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Related citationsRisk factors for late renal dysfunction after pediatric heart transplantation: a multi-institutional study.Feingold B, Zheng J, Law YM, Morrow WR, Hoffman TM, Schechtman KB, Dipchand AI, Canter CE; Pediatric Heart Transplant Study Investigators.Pediatr Transplant. 2011 Nov;15(7):699-705. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2011.01564.x.
- PMID:
- 22004544
- [PubMed - in process]
Related citationsPreventing thrombosis after the Fontan procedure not there yet.Canter CE.J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Aug 2;58(6):652-3. No abstract available.
- PMID:
- 21798430
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsCompeting risks for death and cardiac transplantation in children with dilated cardiomyopathy: results from the pediatric cardiomyopathy registry.Alvarez JA, Orav EJ, Wilkinson JD, Fleming LE, Lee DJ, Sleeper LA, Rusconi PG, Colan SD, Hsu DT, Canter CE, Webber SA, Cox GF, Jefferies JL, Towbin JA, Lipshultz SE; Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry Investigators.Circulation. 2011 Aug 16;124(7):814-23. Epub 2011 Jul 25.
- PMID:
- 21788591
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsAcute myocarditis in children.Simpson KE, Canter CE.Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2011 Jun;9(6):771-83. Review.
- PMID:
- 21714608
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsOutcomes after listing for primary transplantation for infants with unoperated-on non-hypoplastic left heart syndrome congenital heart disease: a multi-institutional study.Guleserian KJ, Schechtman KB, Zheng J, Edens RE, Jacobs JP, Mahle WT, Emerson SL, Naftel DC, Kirklin JK, Blume ED, Canter CE.J Heart Lung Transplant. 2011 Sep;30(9):1023-32. Epub 2011 May 8.
- PMID:
- 21550823
- [PubMed - in process]
Related citationsThe impact of heart failure severity at time of listing for cardiac transplantation on survival in pediatric cardiomyopathy.Larsen RL, Canter CE, Naftel DC, Tressler M, Rosenthal DN, Blume ED, Mahle WT, Yung D, Morrow WR, Orav EJ, Wilkinson JD, Towbin JA, Lipshultz SE.J Heart Lung Transplant. 2011 Jul;30(7):755-60. Epub 2011 Mar 17.
- PMID:
- 21419658
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsBridging children of all sizes to cardiac transplantation: the initial multicenter North American experience with the Berlin Heart EXCOR ventricular assist device.Morales DL, Almond CS, Jaquiss RD, Rosenthal DN, Naftel DC, Massicotte MP, Humpl T, Turrentine MW, Tweddell JS, Cohen GA, Kroslowitz R, Devaney EJ, Canter CE, Fynn-Thompson F, Reinhartz O, Imamura M, Ghanayem NS, Buchholz H, Furness S, Mazor R, Gandhi SK, Fraser CD Jr.J Heart Lung Transplant. 2011 Jan;30(1):1-8.
- PMID:
- 21145473
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsInfection and malignancy after pediatric heart transplantation: the role of induction therapy.Gajarski RJ, Blume ED, Urschel S, Schechtman K, Zheng J, West LJ, Altamirano L, Miyamoto S, Naftel DC, Kirklin JK, Zamberlan MC, Canter CE; Pediatric Heart Transplant Study Investigators.J Heart Lung Transplant. 2011 Mar;30(3):299-308. Epub 2010 Nov 5.
- PMID:
- 21115369
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsOutcomes of heart transplantation in young adults--more than a pediatric concern.Canter CE.J Heart Lung Transplant. 2011 Feb;30(2):139-40. Epub 2010 Nov 5. No abstract available.
- PMID:
- 21055969
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsRejection with hemodynamic compromise in the current era of pediatric heart transplantation: a multi-institutional study.Everitt MD, Pahl E, Schechtman KB, Zheng J, Ringewald JM, L'ecuyer T, Naftel DC, Kirklin JK, Blume ED, Bullock EA, Canter CE; Pediatric Heart Transplant Study Investigators.J Heart Lung Transplant. 2011 Mar;30(3):282-8. Epub 2010 Oct 25.
- PMID:
- 20974544
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsDilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure in children.Hsu DT, Canter CE.Heart Fail Clin. 2010 Oct;6(4):415-32, vii. Review.
- PMID:
- 20869643
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsThe pediatric cardiomyopathy registry and heart failure: key results from the first 15 years.Wilkinson JD, Landy DC, Colan SD, Towbin JA, Sleeper LA, Orav EJ, Cox GF, Canter CE, Hsu DT, Webber SA, Lipshultz SE.Heart Fail Clin. 2010 Oct;6(4):401-13, vii. Review.
- PMID:
- 20869642
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Free PMC ArticleRelated citationsVentricular remodeling and survival are more favorable for myocarditis than for idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy in childhood: an outcomes study from the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry.Foerster SR, Canter CE, Cinar A, Sleeper LA, Webber SA, Pahl E, Kantor PF, Alvarez JA, Colan SD, Jefferies JL, Lamour JM, Margossian R, Messere JE, Rusconi PG, Shaddy RE, Towbin JA, Wilkinson JD, Lipshultz SE.Circ Heart Fail. 2010 Nov;3(6):689-97. Epub 2010 Sep 10.
- PMID:
- 20833772
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Free ArticleRelated citationsOutcomes of heart transplantation using donor hearts from infants with sudden infant death syndrome.Silva JN, Canter CE, Singh TP, Gauvreau K, Piercey GE, Berul CI, Smoot LB, Blume ED, Fynn-Thompson F, Almond CS.J Heart Lung Transplant. 2010 Nov;29(11):1226-30. Epub 2010 Aug 5.
- PMID:
- 20691612
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsCardiomyopathies: Treating pediatric DCM--great expectations unfulfilled.Canter CE.Nat Rev Cardiol. 2010 Aug;7(8):420-2. No abstract available.
- PMID:
- 20657608
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsOutcomes of pediatric heart transplant recipients transitioned to adult care: an exploratory study.McBride ME, Foushee MT, Brown RN, Ewald GA, Canter CE.J Heart Lung Transplant. 2010 Nov;29(11):1309-10. Epub 2010 Jul 8. No abstract available.
- PMID:
- 20619681
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsDecline in rejection in the first year after pediatric cardiac transplantation: a multi-institutional study.Gossett JG, Canter CE, Zheng J, Schechtman K, Blume ED, Rodgers S, Naftel DC, Kirklin JK, Scheel J, Fricker FJ, Kantor P, Pahl E; Pediatric Heart Transplant Study Investigators.J Heart Lung Transplant. 2010 Jun;29(6):625-32. Epub 2010 Mar 5.
- PMID:
- 20207171
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsDistinct clinical and histopathological presentations of Danon cardiomyopathy in young women.Toib A, Grange DK, Kozel BA, Ewald GA, White FV, Canter CE.J Am Coll Cardiol. 2010 Jan 26;55(4):408-10. No abstract available.
- PMID:
- 20117447
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsCurrent management of pediatric dilated cardiomyopathy.Silva JN, Canter CE.Curr Opin Cardiol. 2010 Mar;25(2):80-7. Review.
- PMID:
- 20019605
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]











