About John Najarian

John Najarian is chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota and a widely recognized pioneer in transplant surgery. After graduating with honors from the University of California Medical School in 1952, he served as Division Surgeon of the 34th Air Division, USAF, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was professor of surgery at the University of California School of Medicine before he came to the University of Minnesota in 1967.