Jesse Manunga Jr., MD

Dr. Manunga completed his undergraduate and medical school at UCLA in 2006. He completed a general surgery residency at Kern Medical Center and Vascular and Endovascular Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He joined the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in 2013 after fellowship and has worked as a Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon over the last 10 years.

Dr. Manunga treats all aspects of vascular surgery. However, his area of interest is aortic aneurysms, complex aortic aneurysms and aortic dissection. He started the Minneapolis Heart Institute complex endovascular aortic program in 2013 and has been a principal investigator of multiple clinical trials.  In 2022, Dr. Manunga was granted an investigational device exemption (IDE) by the food and drug administration (FDA) to treat patients with complex aortic aneurysms and is now one of 13 surgeons in the United States that has been granted this type of IDE.

Dr. Manunga has a growing bibliography that includes six book chapters, over 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals and abstracts and 57 invited presentation both at the national level and internationally. He is a member of the editorial board of over 2 surgical journals. Dr. Manunga is a member in good standing of numerous societies including American Surgical Association, American College of Surgeons and the Society for Vascular Surgery and is board certified in both general surgery and vascular surgery. Dr. Manunga has been named top doctor by the Mpls/St Paul Magazine in 2016, 2017, 2022 and 2023.