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John Cleveland

Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery

Kelly Tarantello Chair in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Associate Chief, CT Surgery, Heart Institute CHLA

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John David Cleveland, MD is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine and University of Southern California. He received his medical degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He subsequently completed his residency in Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Southern California followed by a fellowship in Congenital Cardiac Surgery at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, both under the mentorship of Dr. Vaughn A. Starnes. His clinical and research interests focus on the long-term care of children with congenital heart disease as they progress into adulthood.

Publications

  • A Coronary Challenge: Management of Dextro-Transposition With Levo-Malposed Great Vessels. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2025 07; 16(4):549-551.. View in PubMed
  • Treatment of Presumptive Rejection After Orthotopic Pig-to-Baboon Cardiac Xenotransplantation. Xenotransplantation. 2025 Mar-Apr; 32(2):e70044.. View in PubMed
  • Graph-based prototype inverse-projection for identifying cortical sulcal pattern abnormalities in congenital heart disease. Med Image Anal. 2025 05; 102:103538.. View in PubMed
  • Surgical outcomes of the reinforced Ross procedure in the pediatric population. JTCVS Open. 2025 Apr; 24:341-349.. View in PubMed
  • Early Results of an Infant Model of Orthotopic Cardiac Xenotransplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2025 04; 44(4):503-510.. View in PubMed
  • Preservation of Cardiac Xenografts in a Model of Infant Human Cardiac Transplantation. Xenotransplantation. 2025 Jan-Feb; 32(1):e70009.. View in PubMed
  • Noncoding variants and sulcal patterns in congenital heart disease: Machine learning to predict functional impact. iScience. 2025 Feb 21; 28(2):111707.. View in PubMed
  • ECG Features in Orthotopic Cardiac Xenotransplantation: Comparisons With Published Literature. Xenotransplantation. 2024 Nov-Dec; 31(6):e70005.. View in PubMed
  • Pediatric Cardiac Xenotransplantation and Expanded Access: Ethical Considerations. Pediatr Transplant. 2024 11; 28(7):e14876.. View in PubMed
  • Methylmalonic acid induces metabolic abnormalities and exhaustion in CD8+ T cells to suppress anti-tumor immunity. Oncogene. 2025 01; 44(2):105-114.. View in PubMed

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