Dr. David Notrica is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated Cum Laude from Duke University in 1988 and Emory University School of Medicine in 1992 where he was class president and a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society. He completed his General Surgery residency training at Emory University in 1997 where he was awarded the Joseph Whitehead Award for outstanding Resident.  He completed his Pediatric Surgery Fellowship training at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston in 1999.

He is a Professor of Child Health and Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix, Associate Professor of Surgery at Mayo Clinic, Trauma Medical Director at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, and Fellowship Program Director for the Pediatric Surgery Fellowship for the Mayo Clinic/ Phoenix Children’s Hospital program. He was also one of the founding members of the ATOMAC+, and is now President of the new A+ Pediatric Trauma Research Network of 32 pediatric trauma centers.

Dr. Notrica was Chairman of Surgery at Phoenix Children’s Hospital before becoming Chief of Staff in 2006. He was on the Hospital Board of Directors from 2006 to 2009.  He has been identified more than 10 times as a Top Doc by Phoenix Magazine and was named a Healthcare Hero by the Phoenix Business Journal in 2014. A major philanthropic foundation recently endowed the "David M Notrica, MD Endowed Chair of Trauma" at Phoenix Children's Hospital which he currently holds.  He is vice-chair of the American Board of Surgery Pediatric Surgery Qualifying Exam Committee.  He co-founded and co-chaired the Western Pediatric Trauma Conference (WPTC) the Southwest Trauma and Acute Care Symposium (STACS), Trauma Conference International (TCI), and the Advanced Pectus Course (APC).  He holds patents for improvements in the repair of pectus excavatum which are currently licensed and produced by KLS Martin. 

Dr. Notrica has given invited lectures on 4 continents. He has recently completed an NIH-funded subaward from UT-Houston using bone marrow-derived stem cells to mitigate traumatic brain injury which was recently published in Brain.  In his spare time, he enjoys running, biking, skiing, and scuba diving.