Christopher J. Talluto
Experienced in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)

Dr. Christopher J. Talluto

Pediatric Cardiology
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, FL 
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Experienced in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, FL 
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Overview

Dr. Talluto is a cardiologist in the Johns Hopkins All Children's Heart Institute. He joined the hospital staff in 2021. He specializes in adults with congenital heart defects and adolescents who are transitioning into adult care. Previously, he was an adult congenital cardiologist and a pediatric cardiologist at Fairfax Inova Hospital in Fairfax, Virginia, where he was head of the adult congenital heart disease program and co-director of the exercise physiology lab. Dr. Talluto created a transition program for adolescents and teens to transfer into adult care and created and implemented guidelines for appropriate use of exercise testing for patients with congenital heart disease. He has special interest in pregnancy and congenital heart disease, as well as exercise and preventative medicine. Dr. Talluto completed his pediatric cardiology fellowship at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, California. He stayed on to complete a fourth year in adult congenital cardiology at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, California. He did his internal medicine and a pediatric residency at Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York where he served as chief resident his final year. He currently is boarded in pediatrics, internal medicine, pediatric cardiology and adult congenital cardiology. He graduated Cum Laude at Upstate Medical University at Syracuse in Syracuse, New York. Videos Meet Christopher Talluto, M.D.

Dr. Talluto is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). His top areas of expertise are Partial Atrioventricular Canal, Endocardial Cushion Defect, Atrioventricular Septal Defect, and Ventricular Septal Defects.

His clinical research consists of co-authoring 1 peer reviewed article. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.

Residency
Albany Medical Center, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, 2005
Specialties
Pediatric Cardiology
Licenses
Pediatric Cardiology in CA
Board Certifications
American Board Of Internal Medicine
American Board Of Pediatrics
Fellowships
Stanford University Medicine, 2009
Stanford University Medicine, Pediatric Cardiology, 2008
Languages Spoken
English
Gender
Male

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Locations

Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, St. Petersburg
Suite 260, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
Call: 727-767-3333
Other Locations
MCR Health Whole Child Pediatrics
6040 State Road 70 East, Unit B, Bradenton, FL 34203
Call: 727-767-3333
Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, Sarasota
5881 Rand Boulevard, Sarasota, FL 34238
Call: 727-767-3333

Clinical Research

Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.


1 Total Publications

Establishing a successful transition care plan for the adolescent with congenital heart disease.
Establishing a successful transition care plan for the adolescent with congenital heart disease.
Journal: Current opinion in cardiology
Published: October 14, 2017
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