Shelby Kutty is an Indian-born American cardiologist, a professor of

pediatrics Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until th ...

and internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds the

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endowed professorship at Johns Hopkins and is Director of the Helen B. Taussig Heart Center at the

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. Prior to this, he held the title of assistant dean for research and development and vice chair of pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine.

Education

Kutty was educated in India where he obtained his MBBS and a postgraduate medical degree before proceeding to Royal Children’s Hospital, University of Melbourne and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada where he trained in pediatric cardiology. He received his residency training at the Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami, Florida and then enrolled for his fellowship training at the Cleveland Clinic. He trained in

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at the Boston Children's Hospital and secured a master’s degree in Healthcare Management from

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and later obtained a PhD.

Clinical career and leadership

Kutty specializes in cardiovascular imaging for children and adults with congenital heart disease, including

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and preventive cardiology. Kutty left the UNMC College of Medicine in 2018 after an 11-year tenure as a clinician-scientist following his appointment at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to lead Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology. He played a role in the development of the Blalock-Taussig-Thomas Heart Center at Johns Hopkins Medicine in 2019, and participated in clinical programs in materno-fetal cardiac health, adult congenital heart disease, community cardiology, and cardiac catheterization at Hopkins.

Research and Scientific career

His research focuses on investigating myocardial function, right heart disease, and new ultrasound applications. he has led multi-center clinical trials and serves on the editorial boards of international cardiology journals. His work on microbubble contrast agents, ultrasound-mediated cavitation, and targeted ultrasound therapies was funded by the

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and the

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from 2011 to 2018. In 2020 and 2021, Kutty’s team was awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health to lead data science approaches to manage Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) and post-acute sequelae associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Honors

Kutty was honored with the Arthur Weyman Investigator Award (2010) by the American Society of Echocardiography for his work in cardiac imaging and the Harvey Feigenbaum lectureship award in 2020. He was the recipient of 2019 Distinguished Scientist Award from the university of Nebraska Medical Center.

Selected publications

* Kutty S, Jones PG, Karels Q, Joseph N, Spertus JA, Chan PS. Association of Pediatric Medical Emergency Teams With Hospital Mortality. Circulation. 2018 Jan 2;137(1):38-46. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.029535. Epub 2017 Oct 4. PubMed ; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5839663.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kutty, Shelby American cardiologists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Indian emigrants to the United States Harvard University alumni Indian expatriates in Canada Indian expatriates in Australia Johns Hopkins University faculty