Ryan Butts, M.D.

Professor

Schools: Medical School
Departments: Pediatrics

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Biography

Dr. Ryan Butts graduated from the College of Charleston with a degree in Economics and Biology. He was awarded his M.D. from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2005, and completed his Pediatrics residency in Houston at Texas Children’s Hospital. He returned to South Carolina for his Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship, where he was on faculty from 2011 until 2016.

Education

Medical School: Medical University of South Carolina (2005)
Residency: Baylor College of Medicine (2008), Pediatrics
Fellowship: Medical University of South Carolina (2011), Pediatric Cardiology

Research Interest

Heart failure in single ventricle patients
Outcomes after pediatric heart transplantation
Pediatric heart failure

Publications

Correction: Use of SGLT2 inhibitors in pediatric heart failure: a multi-center study (Pediatric Cardiology, (2025), 10.1007/s00246-025-04025-x): Butts R, Nandi D, Hong B, Ryan TD, Sublett-Smith J, Ahmed H, Peng DM, Benvenuto V, Vaughn G, Simpson K, Kroslowitz B, Spinner J Pediatric Cardiology 2026 Apr 47 1859
A Bayesian re-analysis of the STRESS trial: Hill KD, Koerner J, Hong H, Li JS, Hornik C, Kannankeril PJ, Jacobs JP, Baldwin HS, Jacobs ML, Graham EM, Blasiole B, Vener DF, Husain AS, Kumar SR, Benscoter A, Wald E, Karamlou T, Van Bergen AH, Overman D, Eghtesady P, Butts R, Kim JS, Scott JP, Anderson BR, Swartz MF, O’Brien SM American heart journal 2026 Feb 292
Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome: Changes over Time and Associations with Neurodevelopmental and Clinical Factors: Uzark K, Yu S, Afton K, Atz AM, Floh A, Kasparian NA, Lambert LM, Morrison T, Shah A, Sood E, Suthar D, Trachtenberg F, Votava-Smith JK, Williams J, Newburger JW, Goldberg CS, Pearson G, Pemberton V, Burns K, Stylianou M, Freemon D, Mahony L, Trachtenberg F, Miller J, Lamberti M, Gongwer R, Crosby-Thompson A, Allen M, Amarnath A, Coley B, Eyob L, Slayton B, Olesker T, Hu C, Hollenbeck-Pringle D, Stark P, Winrich B, Divatia S, Morrison A, Kinhikar C, Newburger JW, Bellinger D, Prakash A, Levine J, Rhodes J, Dunbar-Masterson C, Buckley LJ, Shah A, Challenger M, Zygmunt A, Garofano R, Gilmartin K, Golub K, Korsin R, Rojas C, Gaynor JW, Ravishankar C, Lupton K, Morrison T, Cohen M, Paridon S, Flynn T, Whitehead K, Sylvester D, Srey S, Winters A, Cnota J, Barnard T, Hamstra M, Rathge K, Hill K, Li J, Campbell M, Carboni M, Martin J, Simms M, Gustafson K, Carroll K, Xu M, Atz A, Chowdhury S, McHugh K, Kral M, Butts R, Forbus G, Nutting A, Taylor C, Bowman S, Chundru K, Al Sarraf L, Freeman M, Infinger P, Miller T, LuAnn Minich L, Burch P, Williams R, Cunningham S, Lambert L, Lindauer B, Shearrow M, Schwartz S, McCrindle B, Rolland M, Walter P, Arseneau P, Hui W, Iori S, Slorach C, Dragulescu A, Sananes R, Seed M, Goldberg CS, Russell M, Afton K, Stewart C, Heinrich K, Lu J, Dorfman A, Frommelt M, Mussatto K, Frommelt P, Ghanayem N, Loman M, Otto M, Stelter J, Dixon J, Moker A, Danduran M, Leibham S, Schoessling M, Detterich J, Lewis A, O'Neill S, Mahmoud H, Ramadan T, Crawford M, Jacobs JP, Hanson J, Dallas L, Morelli D, Mahle W, Ilardi D, Sachdeva R, Slesnick T, Border W, Fyock C, Gentry S, Ashley R, Graham A, Smitley L, Pizarro C, Baffa J, McCulloch M, Robinson B, Sood E, Prospero C, Frommelt P, Stelter J, Schoessling M, Paridon S, Taylor M, Germann J, Madueme P, Artman M, Feltes T, Gobburu J, Hunsberger S, Matherne P, Atkins D, Balakrishnan P, Broberg C, Driscoll DJ, Gordon DJ, Evans F, Hunsberger SA, Johnson LM, Galantowicz M, Knight TJ, Kugler J, Lipkin P, Saul JP, Taylor H Journal of Pediatrics 2026 Feb 289
Heart Transplantation and Ventricular Assist Device in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: A New Era: Rosenthal DN, Amodeo A, Butterfield RJ, Butts R, Chrzanowski S, Cripe L, Day J, Davies R, Duong T, Evers P, Gambetta K, Harris R, Hayes E, Kaufman B, Lorts A, Mack G, Mackenzie SJ, Mammen P, Markham L, McAlister J, McDonald C, Nakano SJ, Nandi D, Navaratnam M, Nelson S, Parent JJ, Piccoli C, Richmond M, Rocha C, Sawnani H, Schrader R, Shell R, Shih R, Shugh S, Smart T, Soslow J, Spinner J, Taivassalo T, Tunugtla H, VanderPluym C, Veerapandiyan A, Villa C, Wittlieb-Weber C, Zafarullah M, Hollander S Pediatric Transplantation 2026 Jan 30
Contemporary outcomes of mechanical circulatory support using paracorporeal continuous flow pump in children: A report from the ACTION learning network: Moon J, Greiten L, VanderPluym C, Peng DM, Butto A, Butts R, Auerbach SR, Su J, Zinn M, Khan S, Byrnes J, Lorts A, Amdani S, Absi M, Dykes J, Joong A, Bearl D, Law S, Nandi D, Wilkens S, Engelhardt K, May L, Vaughn G, Parent JJ, Friedland-Little J, Mokshagundam D, Conway J, Spinner J, Aljohani O, Bleiweis M, Shezad MF, O’Connor MJ Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2026 Jan 45 89-100
Multicenter Registry Analysis of Bivalirudin for Primary Anticoagulation in Pediatric HeartMate 3 Recipients: ACTION Analysis: Lynch A, Shezad MF, Kroslowitz B, Jeewa A, Dykes J, Law S, O’Connor M, Butts R, Joong A, Lorts A, Amdani S, VanderPluym C ASAIO Journal 2026 Publish Ahead of Print
Paracorporeal continuous-flow ventricular assist devices (cfVADs) for children less than 20 kg: Challenging the paradigm in the smallest patients: Davies RR, Iqbal M, Lantz-Thomason J, Carrington S, Jaquiss RD, Baltagi SA, Lasa JJ, Butts RJ Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2025 Sep 170 837-849.e10
Suboptimal Titration of Heart Failure Medications in Pediatric Patients: Baseline Data from ACTION: NANDI D, WRIGHT LK, SUBLETT-SMITH J, BRAX A, BANSAL N, ALMOND CS, AZEKA E, BUTTS R, CHEN S, CONWAY J, CUNNINGHAM C, FISHER LA, HALL EK, HUNTER T, KOBAYASHI R, PATTERSON D, PENG DM, SIMPSON KE, RYAN TD, SPINNER JA, WISOTZKEY B, ZANGWILL S, GAJARSKI RJ, O'CONNOR M Journal of Cardiac Failure 2025 Apr 31 741-745
The ACTION VAD registry: A collective five-year experience: Author Collaboration Ob, Edelson JB, Raskin A, Absi M, Adachi I, Aljohani O, Alzubi A, Amdani S, Asante-Korang A, Auerbach S, Bansal N, Bearl D, Boucek K, Butto A, Butts R, Byrnes J, Castleberry C, Conway J, Do N, Dykes J, Friedland-Little J, Greiten L, Henderson H, Hsu D, Jeewa A, Joong A, Khan S, Knoll C, Lantz J, Law S, Lorts A, Maeda K, Martinez H, May L, Mehegan M, Mokshagundam D, Montgomery C, O'Connor M, Parent JJ, Peng DM, Rosenthal DN, Sheybani A, Shezad M, Shugh L, Shwaish N, Spinner J, Su J, Sutcliffe D, Tunuguntla H, VanderPluym C, Vaughn G Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2025 Apr 44 530-540
Use of SGLT2 inhibitors in pediatric heart failure: a multi-center study: Butts R, Nandi D, Hong B, Ryan T, Sublet-Smith J, Ahmed H, Peng DM, Benvenuto V, Vaughn G, Simpson K, Kroslowitz B, Spinner J Pediatric Cardiology 2025

Books

Retransplantation of the Pediatric Heart Recipient. In In: Stephen Dunn and Simon Horslen eds. Organ and Tissue Transplantation: Solid Organ Transplantation in Infants and Children

3. Kirk CR, Butts RJ (2017). Springer International Publishing

Standard Monitoring Techniques in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. In da Cruz E, Ivy D, Jaggers J, eds. Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Intensive Care.

Butts RJ, Do TB, Atz AM. (2014). Springer-Verlag London; 821-834.

Honors & Awards

Mitchell I. Rubin Research Award
Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina (2016)
AHA CVDY Early Career Investigator Finalist
(2013)
Nominated for Golden Apple Teaching Award
MUSC Childrens Hospital (2013)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Heart Association
International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant
Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society