Dr. James A. Quintessenza

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 highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Tetralogy of Fallot, Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), Ebstein's Anomaly, Heart Transplant, and Heart Valve Repair.

Dr. Quintessenza is board certified in American Board Of Thoracic Surgery. He is actively involved in clinical research, co-authoring 52 peer reviewed articles.