Brad S. Sutton, MD, MBA

Assistant Professor, Medicine
Associate Director of Electrophysiology at Jewish Hospital

Dr. Sutton earned his medical degree in 2004 from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. In 2011 he received his MBA in Medical Services Management from Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business. Dr. Sutton completed two fellowships at Johns Hopkin Hospital in Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.

Clinical Specialty:

• Cardiac Electrophysiology
  

Clinical Interests:

• Complex Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation and Ventricular Tachycardia
• ICD and pacemaker Implantation
• Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
• Complex Lead Management, Device Extraction
• Arrhythmia in Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy
• Heritable Arrhythmias

Other Interests:

• Health Care Reform and Finance
• Health Care Management
• Academic Medical Center Administration

Research

Dr. Sutton has recently been a co-investigator in the following studies:

• Development of a Prospective Registry for Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias.
• Closing the gap between need and availability of mental health services for urban youth.
• Prospective Registry of Lead Extraction Patients.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• Hill MN, Sutton BS. Barriers to Hypertension Care and Control. Current Hypertension Reports. 2000; Oct: 2(5)445-50.  
• van den Bos EJ, Wagner A, Mahrholdt H, Thompson RB, Morimoto Y, Sutton BS, Judd RM, Taylor DA. Improved efficacy of stem cell labeling for magnetic resonance imaging studies by the use of cationic liposomes. Cell Transplantion. 2003;12(7):743-56.
• Thompson RB, van den Bos EJ, Davis BH, Morimoto Y, Craig D, Sutton BS, Glower DD, Taylor DA. Intracardiac transplantation of a mixed population of bone marrow cells improves both regional systolic contractility and diastolic relaxation. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2005 Feb; 24(2):205-14.
• Sutton BS, Blumenthal RS, Kapur NK. Letter regarding article, “Effect of rosuvastatin therapy on coronary artery stenoses assessed by quantitative coronary angiography: a study to evaluate the effect of rosuvastatin on intravascular ultrasound-derived coronary atheroma burden". Circulation. 2008 Nov 25;118(22):e707; author reply e708-9.

Book Chapters

• Sutton BS. (2009) “Systolic Heart Failure.” In Garibaldi B and Diallo A(Eds.), Now What: Patient Encounters in Internal Medicine, 1st Edition,. Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
• Sutton BS. (2009) “Pericardial Disease.” In Garibaldi B and Diallo A(Eds.), Now What: Patient Encounters in Internal Medicine, 1st Edition,. Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.  
• Sutton BS, Bilchik K, and Berger R. “Pacemaker & Defibrillator Therapy in Cardiac Surgery Patients.” In Yuh D, Vricella L, and Baumgartner W (Eds.), The Johns Hopkins Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional.