Nhue Do, MD

Nhue Do, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery in the Department of Cardiac Surgery and Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt (MCJCHV) and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). He also serves as the Surgical Director of the Pediatric Heart Transplant and Ventricular Assist Device Program and inaugural Associate Vice Chair for Global Surgery in the Section of Surgical Sciences.

He obtained his medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He went on to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard University, where he specialized in general surgery with a postdoctoral fellowship on transplantation.  He then completed a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital at Johns Hopkins University, followed by a fellowship in congenital cardiothoracic surgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania. 

He maintains an expertise in the treatment of all aspects of congenital heart disease and maintains ongoing efforts providing pediatric cardia surgery in regions of Turkey, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Kenya. He has previously participated in the efforts from the Johns Hopkins Hospital that has helped build a self-sustained program at the Jayavarman VII Hospital in Siem Reap, Cambodia. His current focus involves building a self-sustaining pediatric cardiac surgery program at the Khwaja Yunus Ali Medical College and Hospital located in Enyetpur Chowhali, Sirajganj region of Bangladesh. This has involved partnering with the local medical school to train local cardiac surgeons and garnering governmental support to subsidize the building of infrastructure.