Donald Nuss MD, MBChB, FRCS, FACS, FAAP

Donald Nuss, M.B., Ch.B., FRCS(C), FACS, FAAP, received his medical degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 1963. Dr. Nuss completed his General Surgery Residency at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and Mayo Clinic in 1971 and his Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town in 1973. Dr. Nuss served as the Director of CHKD’s Division of Pediatric Surgery and Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia, and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters Health System, Inc. 

Dr. Nuss served on the Medical Executive Committee of Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters for 25 years and as Surgeon-in-Chief and Vice President for Surgical Affairs for 20 years. He helped facilitate the development of the operating rooms at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters and saw the volume of surgical patients grow from 2,200 patients per annum to over 11,000 patients per annum during his tenure as Surgeon-in-Chief. 

Dr. Nuss is the developer of the Minimally Invasive Procedure for Pectus Excavatum and conducts an intensive international workshop and training course each year at the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Nuss is an Emeritus Professor of Surgery at EVMS and prior to his retirement in 2010 was Surgeon-in-Chief and Vice President for Surgical Affairs at CHKD for 19 years.