Professor of Surgery
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Dr. Joseph Bavaria is currently the Roberts-Measey Professor of Surgery and Vice-Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, he was President of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (2016-2017) and was President of the Thoracic Surgery Foundation (TSF) (2019-2021), he is Director of the Thoracic Aortic Surgery Program at PENN which is a multidisciplinary program encompassing all aspects of aortic disease. Dr. Bavaria's clinical interests include thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm surgery. Dr. Bavaria's clinical interests include valvular heart surgery and he is the national primary investigator in over 20 industry sponsored, FDA IDE trials as well as ongoing NIH funding in the GenTAC study and the CTSNetwork.