Head of the Department of Adult and Pediatric Congenital Heart Surgery at Cleveland Clinic since January 2016, USA.

He is Chairman of the Board of International Regents of the American Heart College, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the same college since August 8, 2020.

He served as President of the Saudi Heart Association between 2008 and 2011, Vice President of the same association, and President of the Saudi Taekwondo and Judo Federation.

He held several positions at the “King Abdulaziz Medical City” affiliated with the “Ministry of the Saudi National Guard” in Riyadh, including Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, Head of the Cardiac Surgery Department, and Consultant in Pediatric and Adult Cardiac Surgery.

He served as a visiting surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic between August 2014 and September 2014, a resident in the Department of General Surgery at the Ottawa Civic Hospital in Canada, and a resident in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Toronto Hospital and SickKids Hospital. He worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at King Saud University, then an assistant professor at the same college, and an assistant professor at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences.

He won the “Arab Geniuses Award” in the medicine category in 2023 in recognition of his contributions in the field of heart surgery for adults and children, and congenital heart diseases.

Hani Negm contributed to developing a heart valve that can grow inside the human body, especially children. It can be implanted in a child’s heart with the ability to grow over the years to spare the child from repeated operations. He also contributed to devising operations for complex congenital heart defects.

He performed more than 10,000 heart surgeries for adults and children, and introduced innovative practices in heart surgery, including his participation in a delicate surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in the heart of a fetus as young as 26 weeks old.

He received the King Abdulaziz Medal, First Class, in 2001. The American College of Cardiology launched the Hani Najm International Researcher Award to train two newly graduated doctors from Saudi Arabia or the Middle East and invite them to monitor one of the heart centers in the United States.

He holds a Master of Cardiology Research degree, a Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1985 from King Saud University , a Canadian Fellowship in General Surgery, and a Canadian Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery.