Sarah Tabbutt MD, PhD

Dr. Sarah Tabbutt, a pediatric cardiologist and director of Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, cares for infants and children recovering from high-risk heart surgery. In her research, she studies neurodevelopmental outcomes in newborns after heart surgery; in particular, those with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. She is a primary investigator in the first multi-centered, surgical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health's Pediatric Heart Network to compare outcomes between two types of shunts for first-stage treatment of hypoplastic left.

Tabbutt earned a medical degree at the University of California, San Diego in 1990 and completed a pediatric residency at UC San Diego in 1993. She completed fellowships in pediatric cardiology and pediatric critical care medicine at Children's Hospital of Boston. Before attending medical school, she earned a doctorate in physical chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Tabbutt is on the board of directors of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society. Before joining UCSF Medical Center, she was director of Cardiac Intensive Care at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is an associate professor of pediatrics at UCSF.