After being treated at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital for a heart condition, a Los Gatos teenager showed he can keep a steady beat by performing classic rock songs on piano to raise money for research to find a cure for congenital heart defects.

Rishi Radhakrishna, 17, played arrangements of 10 classic rock anthems from Billy Joel to Led Zeppelin on Aug. 30 as a fundraiser for Dr. Casey Gifford’s lab at Stanford University’s Basic Science and Engineering program, where he is an intern focusing on the genetic causes behind congenital heart disorders.

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Radhakrishna, a senior at The Harker School in San Jose, was born with pulmonary stenosis, a congenital heart defect in which the pulmonary valve between the heart and lungs is abnormally thickened, increasing pressure w

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