Professional Bio:

Jimmy Kerrigan, MD, FSCAI, FACC is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and an interventional cardiologist at Saint Thomas Heart at Ascension Saint Thomas West in Nashville, Tennessee. He co-chairs the Interventional Cardiology Affinity Group for Ascension, chairs the Interventional Cardiology Chronic Total Occlusion Affinity Group for Ascension, and serves as co-director of complex coronary intervention for Ascension Saint Thomas. He is also co-director of the Pulmonary Embolism Response Team at Ascension Saint Thomas West and is involved in the leadership teams for interventional cardiology, inpatient pharmaceuticals and therapeutics, inpatient cardiovascular medicine, outpatient practices, clinical research in cardiovascular medicine, and quality improvement projects for Ascension Saint Thomas. He is interested in research in and the management of complex coronary disease, including chronic total occlusions, intracoronary imaging and physiology, cardiogenic shock, and the management of pulmonary embolism. He is board-certified in interventional cardiology, general cardiology, nuclear medicine, interpretation of vascular ultrasound, and internal medicine. He currently sees outpatients in Nashville, Gallatin, and Fayetteville, Tennessee. After finishing college at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, he attended Washington University in St. Louis for medical school, where he continued his training as a resident in internal medicine. After working for a year as a hospitalist at Barnes Jewish Hospital, he joined the Cleveland Clinic for general cardiology fellowship, followed by a two-year fellowship in interventional cardiology, focusing on structural heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, and complex coronary intervention in his second year. He then joined Ascension Saint Thomas Heart in August 2019. He and his wife, Deborah, a stroke neurologist in Nashville, have two school-aged children and enjoy hiking, fishing, and attending sporting events in their free time.