Joseph Bavaria

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Joseph E. Bavaria
M.D., FACS, FRCS (RCSEd) [lower-alpha 1]
Born1957 (age 66–67)
Education Tulane University, Tulane University School of Medicine
Occupation(s)Surgeon, academic
Years active1983-present
Medical career
AwardsThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ (STS) 2022 Distinguished Service Award [1]
AwardsPenn Health System Innovation Prize
Academic work
Discipline Surgery
Sub-discipline Cardiothoracic surgery
Institutions The University of Pennsylvania (Professor of Surgery), European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (International Councilor), Penn Cardiovascular Surgery (Roberts-Measey Professor and Vice-Chair), Penn Aorta Center (Founder and co-director) [2]
Main interestscardio-aortic surgery, thoracic aortic surgery, aortic dissection, aortic root, ascending aortic reconstruction, aortic arch surgery, [3] lung transplant, lung cancer, thoracoscopy, pleurodesis, aortic disease, aortic dissections, cerebral protection, aortic valve repairs, [4] and valve-sparing procedures [5]
Website josephbavaria.com

Joseph E. Bavaria, M.D., FACS, FRCS (Edin) ad hom, (born 1957) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon [6] a professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of its Thoracic Aortic Surgery Program. [lower-alpha 2] [3] Bavaria is known as a leading figure in clinical trials for catheter-based aortic valve replacement (TAVR), thoracic aortic surgery, and aortic endograft procedures (TEVAR). [7] He wrote more than 600 research papers and founded the Penn Aortic Center. Bavaria served as the 52nd president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) from 2016 to 2017, the 3rd President of the Thoracic Surgery Foundation (TSF) (2019-2022), the Chairman of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons/ACC TVT Registry Steering Committee (2017-2020) [lower-alpha 3] and an International Councilor of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) (2021-2024) [9] [10] [5] Bavaria has performed more than 9,000 surgeries throughout his career as of 2019. [11] [12] [13]

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Early life and education

Bavaria was born in 1957 to Elizabeth "Janee" Swank and Edward Bavaria in Little Rock, Arkansas. His father worked as a pilot for the United States Airforce until he started working for General Electric in 1962. Bavaria attended a Cincinnati kindergarten school until third grade. Then, his family moved first to Dallas, Texas and then to Bonn, Germany where they lived from 1967 to 1970. In Germany, his father worked with the embassy thanks to a public-private partnership between General Electric and the German Airforce. Bavaria attended the American School on the Rhine. In 1970, his father was promoted to Head of Engine Division in Europe at General Electric and the family moved to Paris before returning to Cincinnati four years later in 1974. Bavaria graduated from the Indian Hill High School. [lower-alpha 4] He attended Tulane University as an underdraguate and spent a year as an honors exchange student in Edinburgh, Scotland. He graduated with honors from Tulane University in 1979 with a degree in chemical engineering and then attended Tulane University School of Medicine. During his years at Tulane's Medical School, he had an externship in cardiac and thoracic surgery in Cincinnati where he decided to pursue a career in cardiothoracic surgery. He graduated from Tulane's Medical School and was awarded the "Gold Scalpel Award", the highest surgery honor for a medical student. In July 1983, he started his residency as a surgeon at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). [5] [14]

Career

Bavaria finished his residency at HUP in 1992 and started working as an assistant professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at The University of Pennsylvania until 2004 when he was awarded the Brooke Roberts–William Maul Measey Professorship of Surgery. [14]

During his years teaching at Penn, Bavaria has written more than 600 research paper [5] and was an associate editor at The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. [3]

Bavaria holds the role of Primary Investigator at Penn, [15] overseeing the continuous transcatheter aortic valve trials. He plays a prominent role in a dynamic cardio-aortic clinical research group, serving as the main investigator for more than 40 industry-sponsored FDA IDE phase I, II, and III trials. He is also actively involved in ongoing NIH-funded research projects. [5]

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Personal life

During the second year of his surgical residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Bavaria had met Kimberly Franco, a school psychologist. They married four years later. Bavaria and Franco have two children, Melanie and Edward. [5] [16]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vascular surgery</span> Medical specialty, operative procedures for the treatment of vascular disorders

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Endovascular aneurysm repair</span> Surgery used to treat abdominal aortic aneurysm

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert E. Michler</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hybrid cardiac surgery</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Society of Thoracic Surgeons</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Open aortic surgery</span> Surgical technique

Open aortic surgery (OAS), also known as open aortic repair (OAR), describes a technique whereby an abdominal, thoracic or retroperitoneal surgical incision is used to visualize and control the aorta for purposes of treatment, usually by the replacement of the affected segment with a prosthetic graft. OAS is used to treat aneurysms of the abdominal and thoracic aorta, aortic dissection, acute aortic syndrome, and aortic ruptures. Aortobifemoral bypass is also used to treat atherosclerotic disease of the abdominal aorta below the level of the renal arteries. In 2003, OAS was surpassed by endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) as the most common technique for repairing abdominal aortic aneurysms in the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Decellularized homograft</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hazim J. Safi</span> Physician

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John D. Puskas is an American researcher, author, inventor and cardiovascular surgeon. As of 2022, he is Professor, Cardiovascular Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Mount Sinai Morningside, Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Mount Sinai West. He holds 11 U.S. patents and co-founded the International Coronary Congress and the International Society for Coronary Artery Surgery. He is credited by ResearchGate with 330 publications and 15,234 citations and as of 2022 Scopus reports an h-index of 62. Puskas is known for advancing coronary artery bypass (CABG) surgery by refining surgical techniques for all-arterial, off-pump CABG and inventing finer instruments to be used for advanced coronary bypass surgical procedures. He is credited with performing the first totally thoracoscopic bilateral pulmonary vein isolation procedure. He is the co-editor of State of the Art Surgical Coronary Revascularization, the first textbook solely devoted to coronary artery surgery.

Joseph Lamelas is a Cuban-American cardiothoracic surgeon, working in Miami, Florida, who developed the "Miami method", a technique for minimally invasive approach to aortic valve replacement and repair. Lamelas is the Chief of Cardiac surgery and Professor of Surgery at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. He is board certified in general surgery, cardiac surgery and thoracic surgery, and surgical critical care, and is a member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS).

References

  1. ↑ "Awards & Accolades: February 2022 - Penn Medicine". www.pennmedicine.org.
  2. ↑ "The Aorta Center at Penn Medicine: An Inside Look at a Comprehensive Model of Care". March 4, 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 S. Li, Grace (January 15, 2016). "Prof. Joseph E. Bavaria: innovation is the only way for surgeons to move forward". Journal of Visualized Surgery. 2 (1 (January 2016)): 11. doi:10.3978/j.issn.2221-2965.2015.12.08. PMC   5638007 . PMID   29078439.
  4. ↑ Dharma, RanjithKumar (March 31, 2023). "FDA approves Abbott's Epic Max stented tissue valve".
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 L. Prager, Richard (September 22, 2018). "Introduction to Dr Joseph E. Bavaria's Presidential Address". The Annals of Thoracic Surgery . 106 (5, P1274-1275, November 2018): 1274–1275. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.09.003 .
  6. ↑ "The Giants of Cardiothoracic Surgery Joseph Bavaria". YouTube .
  7. ↑ "Experts Say Expanded TAVI/TAVR Heart Valve Use Has Safety Risk - ICIJ". November 26, 2018.
  8. ↑ "STS_ACC TVT Registry STS".
  9. ↑ "Boards STS".
  10. ↑ "Joseph E. Bavaria Elected President of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons". www.newswise.com.
  11. ↑ e Andrés, Marta. "Joseph Bavaria: "La cirugía te permite curar al paciente 'in situ', con tus propias manos"".
  12. ↑ "Heart problems ended his NFL career, but magic provides a second act". www.heart.org.
  13. ↑ "Former Eagle Jon Dorenbos: Every day that I'm here is another day I shouldn't have had". PhillyVoice. November 25, 2017.
  14. 1 2 Takanashi, Shuichiro; Kunihara, Takashi (January 25, 2019). Aortic Valve Preservation: Concepts and Approaches. Springer Singapore. pp. 256–257. ISBN   9789811320682.
  15. ↑ Avril, Tom (July 24, 2019). "Neil Armstrong's heart-surgery death led to $6 million settlement; Penn doctor faulted care". www.inquirer.com.
  16. ↑ "Kimberly Bavaria - Address & Phone Number | Whitepages".

Notes

  1. ↑ The FRCS (Edinburgh) is an "ad hom" recognition.
  2. ↑ a comprehensive program that addresses all aspects of aortic disease, covering thoracic aortic reconstruction and Marfan's Syndrome across multiple disciplines. [3]
  3. ↑ "The STS/ACC TVT Registry, created through a collaboration between STS and the American College of Cardiology (ACC), monitors patient safety and real-world outcomes related to transcatheter valve replacement and repair procedures – emerging treatments for valve disease patients. Employing state-of-the-art heart valve technology, transcatheter heart valve procedures provide new treatment options for patients who are not eligible for conventional heart valve replacement or repair surgery." [8]
  4. ↑ Bavaria played golf for his high school in the state championships at Ohio State University. [5]
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