Tiffany Colarusso, MD, MSE

CDC/NCBDDD
Birth Defects Branch
CENT Bldg 1825 Rm 3069
Atlanta, GA
USA 30329
TColarusso@cdc.gov

Biographical Sketch:
Tiffany Colarusso, MD, MSE is a Medical Officer in the Birth Defects Branch of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. After her training in pediatric cardiology at Emory, she joined CDC in 2005 to work on various projects related to congenital heart defects, including a new classification system for surveillance of heart defects and for use in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study. She has also been involved in studying risk factors for heart defects including maternal conditions such as treatment with opioid analgesics, diabetes, obesity, fever, rubella, and exposure to ambient air pollution. Other work includes a descriptive study of atrioventricular septal defects, updated prevalence estimates and associated non-cardiac anomalies. She also was part of a pilot study for prenatal screening of heart defects in Southeastern China. While collaborating with external partners, she was a significant contributor to the development of the Congenital Heart Public Health Consortium, a national organization dedicated to public health aspects of heart defects. Recently, Dr. Colarusso became a subject matter expert for the Birth Defects domain of the Public health Functional Profile being developed by the Public Health Data Standards Consortium. She has done numerous presentations and her publications include: • Improving the quality of surveillance data on congenital heart defects in the metropolitan Atlanta congenital defects program. Riehle-Colarusso T, Strickland MJ, Reller MD, Mahle WT, Botto LD, Siffel C, Atkinson M, Correa A. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2007 Nov;79(11):743-53. • Associations Between Maternal Fever and Influenza and Congenital Heart Defects. Oster ME, Riehle-Colarusso T, Alverson CJ, Correa A. J Pediatr. 2011 Jan 20. [Epub ahead of print].