John Joseph Nigro, M.D.

Case Western Reserve University (B.S. Chemical Engineering 1987)
Case Western Reserve University (M.S. Macromolecular Science 1988)
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine (M.D. 1993)
USC + Los Angeles County Medical Center General Surgery Residency (1993 – 1999)
USC + Los Angeles County Medical Center Cardiothoracic Residency (1999 – 2002)
Congenital Cardiac Surgery Fellowship at CHLA (2002 – 2003)
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Unversity of Southern California (2003 – 2004)
Director of the Eller Congenital Heart Center at Saint Joseph’s Hospital Medical Center (2005 -2011)
Division Chief and Section Chief Cardiothoracic Surgery Phoenix Children’s Hospital (2011 – 2017)
Director of Pediatric Heart Transplant Program Phoenix Childrens Hospital (2011 – 2017)
Co-Director Heart Institute Phoenix Childrens Hospital (2011 – 2017)
Director of Heart Institute, Division Chief Cardiac Surgery, and Director of Pediatric Heart Transplant program; Rady Children Hospital and University of California San Diego (2017 present)