Michael Taylor, MD, PhD

Clinical Biography

Michael Taylor, MD, PhD, is a board-certified pediatric cardiologist and the Director of Non-Invasive Imaging for the Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease, a clinical partnership between Dell Children’s Medical Center and UT Health Austin. He specializes in pediatric and congenital cardiology, with expertise in non-invasive cardiac imaging. Additionally, Dr. Taylor is a professor in the Dell Medical School Department of Pediatrics at The University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Taylor earned his medical degree in from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and his doctorate in medical physics from University of Wisconsin–Madison. He completed both an internship and residency in pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital and a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Taylor’s clinical interests focus on multi-modality imaging for both congenital and acquired heart conditions, spanning patients of all ages. His research is centered on utilizing advanced imaging techniques to study congenital heart disease and inherited cardiomyopathies. Early in his career, he investigated cardiac metabolic pathways in non-ischemic cardiomyopathy using customized positron emission tomography (PET) tracers and physiological modeling. Building on this foundation, his work with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has provided valuable insights into heart muscle diseases, particularly in animal models of inherited cardiomyopathies and channelopathies, enhancing the understanding of rare inherited conditions. He has also developed innovative cardiac MR imaging methods for the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) population, including new approaches for clinical surveillance and therapeutic trials. Additionally, he has created pulse sequences and image reconstruction techniques designed to improve cardiac MRI for pediatric patients, particularly the smallest and most vulnerable. Clinically, he is committed to advancing multi-modality imaging for congenital and acquired heart conditions across all age groups. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.

Dr. Taylor is a pediatric cardiologist with UT Health Austin.