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Brandi B. Scully
Experienced in Heart Transplant

Dr. Brandi B. Scully

General Surgery
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, FL 
Offers Telehealth

Experienced in Heart Transplant
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, FL 
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Overview

Dr. Scully is an assistant professor of surgery in the division of pediatric cardiac surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and practices at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr. Scully received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in 2012, completing the medical student research track and obtaining a Master of Science in Bioengineering from Rice University. She was a member of the Grande-Allen Integrative Matrix Mechanics lab at Rice University with Dr. Jane Grande-Allen and Dr. David L.S. Morales serving as her thesis advisers. She remained at Baylor College of Medicine for her residency in general surgery in the research track from 2012 to 2018, conducting research in pediatric thoracic transplantation with Drs. Jeffrey Heinle and Charles Fraser at Texas Children’s Hospital. She then completed a residency in cardiothoracic surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital from 2018 to 2021, followed by a fellowship in congenital cardiac surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital from August 2021 to May 2023. Dr. Scully’s research focuses on surgical ethics. She completed the ethics track at Baylor College of Medicine and served as an affiliate member of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy there until 2018. She was a Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics from 2019 to 2021 and a Cardiothoracic Ethics Forum Scholarship recipient in 2019. She was a member of the Surgical Ethics Working Group at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics from 2021 to 2023. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and a member of The Cardiothoracic Ethics Forum, a joint committee of the AATS and the STS. She is a member of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association (STSA), Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS), and the Association of Women Surgeons (AWS).

Dr. Scully is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Heart Transplant. Her top areas of expertise are Lung Transplant and Heart Transplant.

Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 18 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 2 articles in the study of Heart Transplant.

Graduate Institution
Rice University, Bioengineering, MS, 2012
Residency
Baylor College of Medicine, Surgery, 2018
Specialties
General Surgery
Licenses
Surgery in TX
Board Certifications
American Board Of Thoracic Surgery
Fellowships
Boston Children's Hospital, Congenital Cardiac Surgery, 2023
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2021
Languages Spoken
English
Gender
Female

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Locations

Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, St. Petersburg
Suite 206, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
Call: 727-822-6666

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.


18 Total Publications

Ethics of Precision Medicine and Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Ethics of Precision Medicine and Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Journal: Thoracic surgery clinics
Published: October 30, 2025
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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 Heart Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), Tetralogy of Fallot, Ebstein's Anomaly, Heart Transplant, and Heart Valve Repair.

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727-767-6666
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Lauren Kane is a General Surgeon in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Dr. Kane is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Heart Transplant. Her top areas of expertise are Double Discordia, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), Transposition of the Great Arteries, and Heart Transplant.

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5 Tampa General Cir Fl 8, 
Tampa, FL 
 (792.9 miles away)
813-844-3228
Languages Spoken:
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George Makdisi is a General Surgeon in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Makdisi is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Heart Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Cardiac Tamponade, Aortic Valve Stenosis, Aortic Dissection, Heart Bypass Surgery, and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG).

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