David Magnuson, MD

David Magnuson, MD, is Chairman of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Cleveland Clinic. His surgical interests involve the application of innovative minimally invasive technologies to the surgery of infants and children.

He was born and raised in Minnesota. He graduated Magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1979 with a degree in molecular and cell biology. He received his M.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1984, having been elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society as a junior.

Dr. Magnuson received all of his surgical training at the University of Washington in Seattle, including a residency in general surgery, an NIH-funded trauma research fellowship and a fellowship in Pediatric Surgery. During his trauma research fellowship, he won the American College of Surgeons National Research Competition in basic science research for his work on molecular mechanisms of septic shock in surgical patients.

From 1993 to 1998 he was on staff at the National Children's Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He first came to the Cleveland Clinic in 1998 in the Department of Pediatric Surgery and started the Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery Program there. From 2001 to 2006 he was the Section Head of Pediatric Surgery at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland.

In 2007, he returned to the Cleveland Clinic as Chairman of the Department of Pediatric Surgery. Dave and his wife Heidi have been married for 28 years and have four children. They live in Chagrin Falls.

Education & Professional Highlights

Appointed
2007

Education & Fellowships

Fellowship - Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center
Pediatric Surgery
Seattle, WA USA
1993

Residency - University of Washington Medical Center
Pediatric General Surgery
Seattle, WA USA
1991

Internship - University of Washington Medical Center
General Surgery
Seattle, WA USA
1985

Medical Education - University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, MN USA
1984

Undergraduate - Princeton University
Biology
Princeton, NJ USA
1979

Additional Training

Professional Highlights

Certifications

Surgery - Pediatric Surgery

Specialty Interests

congenital malformations, hernia, minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum/Nuss procedure, Minimally Invasive Surgery, neonatal surgery, pediatric critical care, pediatric general and thoracic surgery, pediatric general surgery and thoracic surgery, pediatric solid tumors, pediatric surgical oncology, pediatric trauma, pediatric tumors

Awards & Honors

Innovations & Patents

Devising and modifying advanced minimally invasive surgical techniques for use in newborn infants with serious surgical problems
Development of minimally invasive techniques for placement of long-term feeding buttons in infants and children

Memberships

American College of Surgeons
American Pediatric Surgical Association
American Association of Pediatrics, Surgical Section
Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
International Pediatric Endosurgery Group

Research & Publications

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