Curt Degroff, MSEE, M.D.
Program Director & Clinical Professor
Department:
MD-COGNITAL HRT CTR EXCELLENCE
Business Phone:
(352) 273-7831
Business Email:
degroffc@ufl.edu
About Curt Degroff
Hi, my name is Dr. DeGroff and I work as a professor of pediatric cardiology at the UF Health Congenital Heart Center. After finishing a very rewarding masters of science degree program at Cal Tech in Electrical Engineering, I had an unrewarding early career start in electrical engineering until I discovered medicine was the career I realized I was looking for. In my early medical training I discovered cardiology was the medical specialty where I could most use my engineering skills. On top of that I always wanted to work with kids so Pediatric Cardiology was the perfect fit for me.
I completed my pediatric residency program at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Los Angeles. There, I was a committee member for evaluation of residents as well as the chief assistant to the director of the pediatric residency program. I then completed a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.
Now at UF Health I am the medical director of noninvasive cardiac imaging and affiliate faculty of the University of Florida Biomedical Engineering Department. I am a member of the American Heart Association and a fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography. I hope to offer cardiac imaging experience to my junior colleagues.
Outside of work I enjoy being active especially outdoors. My favorite ways to do this are through kayaking, biking, and playing basketball.
Accomplishments
Fellow
2019
·
American Heart Association
Fellow
2017
·
American Society of Echocardiography (FASE)
Editorial board consultant
2010-2013
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Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Member
2003-2019
·
NIH Scientific Review Group SBIR/STTR Small Business Cardiovascular Devices Special Reviewer Emphasis Panel
Board Certifications
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Pediatric CardiologyAmerican Board of Pediatrics
Clinical Profile
Specialties
- Pediatrics
Subspecialties
- Pediatric Cardiology
Areas of Interest
- Congenital heart disease
- Echocardiography (ECHO) – Children
- Fetal echocardiography
- Fetal heart monitoring
- Heart CT scan
- Heart MRI
- Heart murmurs
- Imaging and radiology
Publications
2023
Elevated Aortic Stiffness after Pediatric Heart Transplantation.
Pediatric cardiology.
[DOI] 10.1007/s00246-023-03245-3.
[PMID] 37535078.
2022
A Comprehensive Approach to the Management of Patients With HLHS and Related Malformations: An Analysis of 83 Patients (2015-2021).
World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery.
13(5):664-675
[DOI] 10.1177/21501351221088030.
[PMID] 35511494.
2020
Optimized Computed Tomography Angiography Protocol for the Evaluation of Thrombus in Patients with Fontan Anatomy.
Pediatric cardiology.
41(8):1601-1607
[DOI] 10.1007/s00246-020-02417-9.
[PMID] 32785745.
2019
Impact of 3D Printouts in Optimizing Surgical Results for Complex Congenital Heart Disease.
World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery.
10(5):533-538
[DOI] 10.1177/2150135119852316.
[PMID] 31496399.
2017
Maternal hyperoxygenation: A potential therapy for congenital heart disease in the fetuses? A systematic review of the current literature.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.).
34(12):1822-1833
[DOI] 10.1111/echo.13722.
[PMID] 29287137.
2015
Effect of Aerobic versus Resistance Exercise on Pulse Wave Velocity, Intima Media Thickness and Left Ventricular Mass in Obese Adolescents.
Pediatric exercise science.
27(4):494-502
[DOI] 10.1123/pes.2015-0067.
[PMID] 26181766.
2015
Pocket echocardiography system for detection of patent ductus arteriosus in neonates.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.).
32(2):319-24
[DOI] 10.1111/echo.12656.
[PMID] 24919825.
2014
Blood Cell Adhesion On a Polymeric Heart Valve Leaflet Processed Using Magnetic Abrasive Finishing
Journal of Medical Devices-Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
8(1)
[DOI] 10.1115/1.4025853.
2014
Doppler echocardiography inaccurately estimates right ventricular pressure in children with elevated right heart pressure.
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography.
27(3)
[DOI] 10.1016/j.echo.2013.11.017.
[PMID] 24438751.
2013
Protocol for relative hydrodynamic assessment of tri-leaflet polymer valves.
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE.
(80)
[DOI] 10.3791/50335.
[PMID] 24193435.
2013
Quantification of left-to-right shunt through patent ductus arteriosus by colour Doppler in children admitted for a device closure.
Cardiology in the young.
23(2)
[DOI] 10.1017/S1047951112000315.
[PMID] 23351882.
2013
Transesophageal echocardiography in critically ill acute postoperative infants: comparison of AcuNav intracardiac echocardiographic and microTEE miniaturized transducers.
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography.
26(1)
[DOI] 10.1016/j.echo.2012.09.008.
[PMID] 23059370.
2012
Left ventricular systolic dyssynchrony in pediatric and adolescent patients with congestive heart failure.
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography.
25(9)
[DOI] 10.1016/j.echo.2012.05.003.
[PMID] 22658562.
2012
Pulsatile venous waveform quality affects the conduit performance in functional and “failing” Fontan circulations.
Cardiology in the young.
22(3):251-62
[DOI] 10.1017/S1047951111001491.
[PMID] 22008697.
2011
Adult definitions for dyssynchrony are inappropriate for pediatric patients.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.).
28(4):468-74
[DOI] 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2010.01348.x.
[PMID] 21395672.
2010
Letter by DeGroff regarding article, “Rheumatic heart disease screening by echocardiography: The inadequacy of World Health Organization criteria for optimizing the diagnosis of subclinical disease”.
Circulation.
121(21)
[DOI] 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.907337.
[PMID] 20516383.
2010
Optimization of inflow waveform phase-difference for minimized total cavopulmonary power loss.
Journal of biomechanical engineering.
132(3)
[DOI] 10.1115/1.4000954.
[PMID] 20459200.
2009
Letter by DeGroff regarding article, “Direction of preoperative ventricular shunting affects ventricular mechanics after Tetralogy of Fallot repair”.
Circulation.
120(6)
[DOI] 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.844134.
[PMID] 19667242.
2009
Minimal sedation second dose strategy with intranasal midazolam in an outpatient pediatric echocardiographic setting.
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography.
22(4):383-7
[DOI] 10.1016/j.echo.2009.01.003.
[PMID] 19345306.
2009
Pulsatile in vitro simulation of the pediatric univentricular circulation for evaluation of cardiopulmonary assist scenarios.
Artificial organs.
33(11):967-76
[DOI] 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2009.00951.x.
[PMID] 20021470.
2008
Modeling the Fontan circulation: where we are and where we need to go.
Pediatric cardiology.
29(1):3-12
[PMID] 17917765.
2006
Doppler echocardiographic profile and indexes.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
48(2):419; author reply 419-20
[PMID] 16843207.
2006
Efficiency differences in computational simulations of the total cavo-pulmonary circulation with and without compliant vessel walls.
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine.
81(3):220-7
[PMID] 16455152.
2006
First-order system least-squares (FOSLS) for modeling blood flow.
Medical engineering & physics.
28(6):495-503
[PMID] 16275152.
2006
Response to: “Echocardiographic assessment of isolated pulmonary valve stenosis: which outpatient doppler gradient has the most clinical validity?”.
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography.
19(3)
[PMID] 16500506.
2005
A classifier based on the artificial neural network approach for cardiologic auscultation in pediatrics.
Artificial intelligence in medicine.
33(3):251-60
[PMID] 15811789.
2005
Altered ventricular mechanics in cardiac allografts: a tissue Doppler study in 30 children without prior rejection events.
The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation.
24(11):1804-13
[PMID] 16297786.
2005
Computational simulations of the total cavo-pulmonary connection: insights in optimizing numerical solutions.
Medical engineering & physics.
27(2):135-46
[PMID] 15642509.
2005
Design and baseline characteristics of participants in the study of antihypertensive therapy in children and adolescents with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD).
Contemporary clinical trials.
26(2):211-22
[PMID] 15837441.
2005
Non-invasive detection of acute allograft rejection in children by tissue Doppler imaging: myocardial velocities and myocardial acceleration during isovolumic contraction.
The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation.
24(7 Suppl):S239-48
[PMID] 15993780.
2005
Regional myocardial velocities and isovolumic contraction acceleration before and after device closure of atrial septal defects: a color tissue Doppler study.
American heart journal.
150(2):294-301
[PMID] 16086934.
2004
Modeling 3-D compliant blood flow with FOSLS.
Biomedical sciences instrumentation.
40:193-9
[PMID] 15133957.
2003
Comparison of in vitro velocity measurements in a scaled total cavopulmonary connection with computational predictions.
Annals of biomedical engineering.
31(7):810-22
[PMID] 12971614.
2003
Doppler strain rate echocardiography versus magnetic resonance imaging.
Circulation.
107(3)
[PMID] 12551882.
2003
Flow in the early embryonic human heart: a numerical study.
Pediatric cardiology.
24(4):375-80
[PMID] 12632224.
2003
Insights into the effect of aortic compliance on Doppler diastolic flow patterns seen in coarctation of the aorta: a numeric study.
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography.
16(2):162-9
[PMID] 12574743.
2002
A novel paradigm for telemedicine using the personal bio-monitor.
Biomedical sciences instrumentation.
38:59-70
[PMID] 12085659.
2002
Designing the optimal Total Cavopulmonary Connection: pulsatile versus steady flow experiments.
Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research.
8(3):MT41-5
[PMID] 11887040.
2002
Effect of vessel size on the flow efficiency of the total cavopulmonary connection: in vitro studies.
Pediatric cardiology.
23(2):171-7
[PMID] 11889529.
2002
First-order system least squares for elastohydrodynamics with application to flow in compliant blood vessels.
Biomedical sciences instrumentation.
38:277-82
[PMID] 12085616.
2002
Jet eccentricity: a misleading source of agreement between Doppler/catheter pressure gradients in aortic stenosis.
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography.
15(3):291-2
[PMID] 11875395.
2002
Longitudinal motion of the atrioventricular annuli in children: reference values, growth related changes, and effects of right ventricular volume and pressure overload.
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography.
15(9):906-16
[PMID] 12221407.
2002
Reverse flow in compliant vessels and its implications for the Fontan procedure: numerical studies.
Biomedical sciences instrumentation.
38:321-6
[PMID] 12085625.
2001
Around PediHeart: review of methods for quantifying left to right shunts in patients with congenital heart disease.
Pediatric cardiology.
22(1)
[PMID] 11123137.
2001
Around PediHeart: survey on use of Doppler echocardiographic quantitative methods available to evaluate hemodynamic severity of left to right shunt lesions in routine follow-up studies.
Pediatric cardiology.
22(1)
[PMID] 11123119.
2001
Changing Electrocardiographic Patterns During Medical Treatment in a Patient With Anomalous Left Coronary Artery Originating From the Pulmonary Artery.
Circulation.
103(16):E85-E86
[PMID] 11319207.
2001
Emergency pulmonary autograft mitral valve replacement in a child.
The Annals of thoracic surgery.
72(1):251-3
[PMID] 11465189.
2001
Three-dimensional reconstruction of color Doppler-imaged flow convergence region: limitations.
Circulation.
104(20)
[PMID] 11705836.
2000
Accuracy of the Bernoulli equation for estimation of pressure gradient across stenotic Blalock-Taussig shunts: an in vitro and numerical study.
Pediatric cardiology.
21(5):439-47
[PMID] 10982702.
2000
Pressure recovery and aortic stenosis.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
35(1):260-1
[PMID] 10636291.
2000
Three-dimensional imaging of aortic arch anomalies in infants and children with intravascular ultrasound catheters from a transesophageal approach.
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography.
13(10):924-31
[PMID] 11029717.
2000
Utility of the proximal jet width in the assessment of regurgitant and stenotic orifices–effect of low velocity filter and comparison to actual vena contracta width: an in vitro and numerical study.
European journal of echocardiography : the journal of the Working Group on Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology.
1(1):42-54
[PMID] 12086216.
1999
Spontaneous pericardial hematoma in an infant.
Pediatric cardiology.
20(5):380-1
[PMID] 10441699.
1998
Analysis of the effect of flow rate on the Doppler continuity equation for stenotic orifice area calculations: a numerical study.
Circulation.
97(16):1597-605
[PMID] 9593565.
1998
Congenital erythrocytosis with elevated erythropoietin level: an incorrectly set “erythrostat”?
Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology.
20(6):560-2
[PMID] 9856679.
1998
Evaluating isovelocity surface area flow convergence method with finite element modeling.
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography.
11(8):809-18
[PMID] 9719093.
1998
Utility of three-dimensional ultrasound Doppler flow reconstruction of the proximal jet to quantify effective orifice area: in vitro steady and pulsatile flow studies.
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography.
11(4):313-21
[PMID] 9571580.
1996
Quantification of mitral flow by Doppler color flow mapping.
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography.
9(5):700-9
[PMID] 8887874.
1995
Giant blood cyst of the aortic valve.
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography.
8(4):543-5
[PMID] 7546792.
1995
Supraventricular tachycardia.
The New England journal of medicine.
333(5):323; author reply 323-4
[PMID] 7646717.
1994
Bronchospasm after intravenous administration of adenosine in a patient with asthma.
The Journal of pediatrics.
125(5 Pt 1):822-3
[PMID] 7965442.
1994
Intravascular ultrasound can assist angiographic assessment of coarctation of the aorta.
American heart journal.
128(4):836-9
[PMID] 7942459.
1994
Reversible cardiomyopathy in an infant with unrecognized congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
The Journal of pediatrics.
124(6):936-8
[PMID] 8201481.
Grants
Sep 2019
– May 2021
Integrating Multi-parametric Echocardiography with Computer Assisted Analyses in Detection for Early Allograft Rejection in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients: A Pilot prospective Multicenter Trial.
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: ENDURING HEARTS
Education
Fellowship – Pediatric Cardiology
1995
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Oregon HSC University
Residency – Pediatrics
1992
·
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center
Internship – Pediatrics
1990
·
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center
Medical Degree
1989
·
Suny Health Science Center at Brooklyn
Contact Details
Phones:
- Business:
- (352) 273-7831
Emails:
- Business:
- degroffc@ufl.edu
Addresses:
- Business Mailing:
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1600 SW ARCHER RD
GAINESVILLE FL 32610 - Business Street:
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1600 SW ARCHER ROAD, HD 316-A
THE CONGENITAL HEART CENTER AT UF
GAINESVILLE FL 32610