Barry E. LoSasso, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P.

Barry E. LoSasso, M.D. was born in New York City and received his undergraduate degree from Yale University.  He attended medical school at the University of Florida and completed his fellowship in pediatric surgery at Babies Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in 1984.  Barry started his pediatric surgical career practicing at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in San Diego, California.  From there he opened his private practice in 1987, with four locations throughout San Diego County.  In addition, he has been the Director of Trauma Services at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego www.rchsd.org from February 1998 until June of 2006 and is currently in private practice.  Barry is the Chairman for the Safe Kid’s Coalition in San Diego and the Scientific Coordinator for the Fourteenth Annual Pediatric Critical Care Colloquium in San Diego in October 2002.   

Dr. LoSasso has spent time with Dr. Nuss at the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughter in Norfolk, Virginia, and has devoted much of his surgical practice to research and the practice of the minimally-invasive Nuss procedure for the correction of pectus excavatum.