Shelby Kutty is an Indian-born American

cardiologist Cardiology () is the study of the heart. Cardiology is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery di ...

, a professor of

pediatrics Pediatrics (American English) also spelled paediatrics (British English), is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, Adolescence, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, pediatrics covers many o ...

and

internal medicine Internal medicine, also known as general medicine in Commonwealth nations, is a medical specialty for medical doctors focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in adults. Its namesake stems from "treatment of diseases of ...

at the

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a Private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Established in 1893 following the construction of the Johns Ho ...

. He holds the

Helen B. Taussig Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 – May 20, 1986) was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the l ...

endowed professorship at Johns Hopkins and is Director of the Helen B. Taussig Heart Center and the chair of Cardiovascular Analytic Intelligence Initiative at

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. He currently serves as the editor of ''American Journal of Physiology'': ''Heart and Circulatory Physiology'' and ''Cardiology in the Young'' and as consulting editor for the ''Journal of Clinical Investigation.'' 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. Kutty has published over 400 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals.

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 cardiac MRI at the

Boston Children's Hospital Boston Children's Hospital (formerly known as Children's Hospital Boston until 2013) is the main pediatric training and research hospital of Harvard Medical School, Harvard University. It is a nationally ranked, freestanding acute care children ...

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 A congenital heart defect (CHD), also known as a congenital heart anomaly, congenital cardiovascular malformation, and congenital heart disease, is a defect in the structure of the heart or great vessels that is present at birth. A congenital he ...

, including

echocardiography Echocardiography, also known as cardiac ultrasound, is the use of ultrasound to examine the heart. It is a type of medical imaging, using standard ultrasound or Doppler ultrasound. The visual image formed using this technique is called an ec ...

magnetic resonance imaging Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to generate pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes inside the body. MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields, magnetic field gradients, and ...

computed tomography A computed tomography scan (CT scan), formerly called computed axial tomography scan (CAT scan), is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed internal images of the body. The personnel that perform CT scans are called radiographers or ...

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 The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Established in 1893 following the construction of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, th ...

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. He is the Director of the Helen B. Taussig Heart Center and chair of Cardiovascular Analytic Intelligence Initiative at the

and holds appointments at the

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. He serves as the editor of ''American Journal of Physiology'': ''Heart and Circulatory Physiology'' and ''Cardiology in the Young and as'' consulting editor for the

Journal of Clinical Investigation The ''Journal of Clinical Investigation'' is a semi-monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering biomedical research. It was established in 1924 and is published by the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Articles focus on the mechanisms ...

''.'' He seats on the editorial board of several cardiology journals including ''World Journal of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery'', Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Imaging'','' Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography and Circulation and ''Cardiovascular Imaging.''

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

American Heart Association The American Heart Association (AHA) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that funds cardiovascular medical research, educates consumers on healthy living and fosters appropriate Heart, cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability ...

and the

National Institute of Health The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in 1887 and is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Servic ...

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. * Bhaskar, S; Sinha, A; Banach, M; Mittoo, S; Weissert, R; Kass, J S; Rajagopal, S; Pai, A. R; Kutty, S (July 10, 2020) Cytokine storm in COVID-19—immunopathological mechanisms, clinical considerations, and therapeutic approaches: the REPROGRAM consortium position paper''. Frontiers in immunology. 11. Frontiers Media SA: 1648.'' * Morton, G; Schuster, A; Jogiya, R; Kutty, S; Beerbaum, P; Nagel, E (January 1, 2012) Inter-study reproducibility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance myocardial feature tracking''. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. Vol 14. Issue 1. Elsevier: 34.'' * Schuster, A; Hor, K. N; Kowallick, J. T; Beerbaum, P; Kutty, S (April 2016) Cardiovascular magnetic resonance myocardial feature tracking: concepts and clinical applications. ''Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging. Vol 9. Issue 4. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: e004077.'' * Porter, T. R; Mulvagh, S. L; Abdelmoneim, S. S; Becher, H; Belcik, J; Bierig, M; Choy, J; Gaibazzi, N; Gillam, L. D; Janardhanan, R; Kutty, S; Leong-Poi, H, Lindner, J. R; Main, M. L; Mathias Jr, W; Park, M. M; Senior, R; Villanueva, F (March 1, 2018) Clinical applications of ultrasonic enhancing agents in echocardiography: 2018 American Society of Echocardiography guidelines update. ''Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. Vol 31. Issue 3. Mosby: 241-274.'' * Poterucha, J. T; Kutty, S; Lindquist, R. K; Li, L; Eidem, B. W (July 1, 2012) Changes in left ventricular longitudinal strain with anthracycline chemotherapy in adolescents precede subsequent decreased left ventricular ejection fraction. ''Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography Vol 25. Issue 7. Mosby: 733-740.''

References

External links

* {{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