Shelby Kutty

Shelby Kutty is an Indian-born American cardiologist, a professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds the Helen B. Taussig endowed professorship at Johns Hopkins and is Director of the Helen B. Taussig Heart Center at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. 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 specializes in cardiovascular imaging for children and adults with congenital heart disease, including echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging, and computed tomography. He also has expertise in preventive cardiology. Kutty departed from the UNMC College of Medicine in 2018 after an 11-year tenure as clinician-scientist when he was recruited by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to lead Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology at Johns Hopkins. He played a role in the development of the Blalock-Taussig-Thomas Heart Center at Johns Hopkins Medicine in 2019, and subsequent building of clinical programs in materno-fetal cardiac health, adult congenital heart disease, community cardiology, and cardiac catheterization at Hopkins

He has been investigating myocardial function, right heart disease, and new ultrasound applications, and has led multi-center clinical trials. As a researcher, Dr. Kutty has been funded from 2011 to 2018 by the American Heart Association and theNational Institute of Health for his work on microbubble contrast agents, ultrasound-mediated cavitation, and targeted ultrasound therapies. 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.Dr. Kutty’s principal scientific focus has been on imaging tools for myocardial function, treatment outcomes in congenital heart disease, and therapeutic ultrasound.As a researcher, he has been funded from 2011 to 2018 by the American Heart Association and the National Institute of Health for work on microbubble contrast agents, ultrasound-mediated cavitation, and targeted ultrasound therapies.He has also led multicenter clinical trials and serves on the editorial board of leading international cardiology journals.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.

Dr. Kutty’s work in cardiac imaging research has been recognized by the American Society of Echocardiography with the Arthur Weyman Investigator Award in 2010 and the Harvey Feigenbaum lectureship award in 2020. He was the recipient of 2019 Distinguished Scientist Award from the university of Nebraska Medical Center.

• 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 PMID 28978554; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5839663.