BayCare has appointed Dr. Shelby Kutty as vice president and chief academic officer, effective Jan. 6. Kutty will oversee the academic integrity and quality of educational programs under the direction of Dr. Sowmya Viswanathan, BayCare’s chief physician executive. He joins the health system as it expands academic offerings and medical training programs across its 16 hospitals in West Central Florida.
A specialist in multimodal cardiovascular imaging, Kutty previously served at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he was the Helen B. Taussig Professor, director of pediatric and congenital cardiology, co-director of the pediatric and congenital heart center and chair of the Cardiovascular Analytic Intelligence Initiative. He also held an appointment at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
BayCare plans to increase its number of residency positions to more than 650 by 2029. Viswanathan said Kutty’s experience in academic medicine and research will help advance those efforts.
Before joining Johns Hopkins, Kutty was a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine, where he also served as vice chair for pediatrics and assistant dean for research and development.