Overview
Dr. Quintessenza is the co-director of the Heart Institute and chief of cardiovascular surgery at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. He originally joined the hospital staff in 1988, where he developed and refined complex neonatal heart surgery and led the congenital heart program for many years. He was one of the cardiothoracic surgeons who performed the hospital’s first pediatric heart transplant in 1995. He previously served as medical director of the Heart Institute from 2012-2015. Dr. Quintessenza returned to Johns Hopkins All Children’s in 2020 after three years as chief and professor of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at Kentucky Children’s Hospital and the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and as professor of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati. In the 2022 Johns Hopkins Medicine Clinical Awards, Dr. Quintessenza, Dr. Ashish Shah and the Heart Institute Flight Plan won the Innovations in Clinical Care Award for Johns Hopkins All Children’s. After receiving his medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine through the Junior.
Dr. Quintessenza is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Ebstein's Anomaly. His top areas of expertise are Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), Tetralogy of Fallot, Ebstein's Anomaly, Heart Transplant, and Heart Valve Repair.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 53 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 1 article in the study of Ebstein's Anomaly.
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Locations
Suite 206, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
Clinical Research
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Areas of Expertise
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- Congenital Heart Disease (CHD)Dr. Quintessenza isAdvanced. Learn about Congenital Heart Disease (CHD).
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- Coarctation of the AortaDr. Quintessenza isExperienced. Learn about Coarctation of the Aorta.
- Ebstein's AnomalyDr. Quintessenza isExperienced. Learn about Ebstein's Anomaly.
- Heart TransplantDr. Quintessenza isExperienced. Learn about Heart Transplant.
- Heart Valve RepairDr. Quintessenza isExperienced. Learn about Heart Valve Repair.
- Pulmonary AtresiaDr. Quintessenza isExperienced. Learn about Pulmonary Atresia.
- Tetralogy of FallotDr. Quintessenza isExperienced. Learn about Tetralogy of Fallot.