James A. DiNardo, MD, FAAP Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Dr. DiNardo graduated from Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School (with honors). He completed his anesthesia residency and fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesia at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He joined the faculty at Boston Children’s Hospital in 1999. He currently serves as the Chief of the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia. He spends approximately one third of this clinical time as an Attending in the Cardiac ICU.
Dr. DiNardo is certified in perioperative TEE and is the former Chairman of the PTEeXAM Committee. He is also a Senior Oral Board Examiner for the ABA and a member of the ABA Pediatric Examination Writing Committee. He is Past-President of both the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society and the Association of Cardiac Anesthesiologists.
His major research interests are echocardiography and coagulation.
He is the author of a major textbook on cardiac anesthesia and of more than 120 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.
He is an avid distance runner and cross-country skier and enjoys the ease with which his 10 year-old daughter makes him look foolish.
