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Pedro J. del Nido, MD
Department/Division
Cardiovascular Surgery

Specialty
Cardiovascular Surgery

Services/Programs
Cardiovascular Program
Heart Transplant
Center for Airway Abnormalities and Reconstruction

Clinical Title
Chief of Cardiac Surgery
Senior Associate in Cardiovascular Surgery

Harvard Medical School Appointment
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Primary Office Location
Children's Hospital Boston
Department of Cardiac Surgery
300 Longwood Avenue, Bader 273
Boston, MA 02115

Phone: 617-355-8290
Fax: 617-730-0214
E-mail: pedro.delnido@cardio.chboston.org
Website: www.childrenshospital.org/cardiovascular

 

Board Certification(s)
Surgery
Medical School
University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI 1977
Internship
Boston University, Boston, MA 07/77 to 06/78
Residency
Toronto General Hospital, CANADA 07/83 to 06/85
Fellowship
Hospital for Sick Children, CANADA 07/85 to 06/86

 

Dr. del Nido's laboratory research work has focused on two areas related to cardiac surgery. The first area involves investigation of mechanisms of injury from myocardial ischemia and on developing techniques for heart preservation during cardiac surgery. Current work includes investigation of mechanisms responsible for decreased tolerance to ischemia in hypertrophied myocardium and the role angiogenesis plays in progression of hypertrophy to apoptosis or programmed cell death, in the post-ischemic heart.

The second area of investigation aims to develop techniques for performing reconstructive surgery inside the beating heart using 3D echocardiography. This project is a research partnership between the Department of Cardiac Surgery, two engineering laboratories (Harvard and Boston University) and industry. The goal is to design and implement new technology and instrumentation to facilitate repair of intracardiac defects, obviating the need for open-heart surgery.

For more information, please contact our Call Center: 1-800-355-7944 ctrfam@tch.harvard.edu

Children's Hospital Boston
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
617-355-6000