Gary Alan Bass, MD, MBA, PhD
General Surgery, Trauma Surgery
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery University City
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Assistant Program Director, Surgical Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery Fellowships
- Medical Director, Surgical Critical Care, Pennsylvania Hospital
- Medical Director, Emergency Surgery Service at Pennsylvania Hospital
- Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
My education and training
- Royal College of Surgeons of EnglandMedical School
- James Connolly Memorial HospitalResidency
- Aesthetic Breast and Cosmetic Surgery CenterResidency
- Royal College of Surgeons of IrelandResidency
- University of Pennsylvania Health SystemFellowship
Spoken languages
English
English
Irish
Irish
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Bass is a Penn Medicine provider.
Qualifications and experience
- American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), National
- Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI), International
- Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), National
- European Board of Surgery (EBS) examination Multiple Choice Questions, International
- European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), International
- European Society of Trauma & Emergency Surgery (ESTES), International
- Instructor, "Stop the Bleed" course, American College of Surgeons, National
- Instructor, AAST/ESTES Emergency Surgery Course (ESC), International
- Instructor, Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), American College of Surgeons, International
- Instructor, Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS) Course, Society of Critical Care Medicine, International
- Intensive Care Society of Ireland (ICSI), National
- International Association for Trauma Surgery and Intensive Care (IATSIC), International
- International Surgical Society, International
- Item writer for the 2024-2025 This Week in Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE)’s Transfusion and Disorders of Coagulation quiz. The Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE) Portal. http://www.surgicalcore.org. Published June 23, 2024., National
- Item writer for the Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE) Question Bank. The SCORE Portal. http://www.surgicalcore.org. Published July 2024., National
- Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, Local
- Philadelphia County Medical Society, Local
- Royal Statistical Society, International
- Society for Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), National
- Teaching Faculty, Modular Ultrasound for Surgeons ESTES Course (MUSEC), International
- Teaching Faculty, World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) "Emergency Abdominal Surgery Course", International
- World Society for Emergency Surgery (WSES), International
All conditions and treatments
Research
Publications
Catena F, De Simone B, Kryvoruchko IA, Di Saverio S, Ribeiro MAF Jr, Hardcastle TC, Işık A, Ioannidis O, Podda M, Di Martino M, Ball CG, Hörer TM, Ottolino P, Bae JM, Kim FJ, Rasa K, Shelat VG, Navsaria P, Dogjani A, Tan E, Dal Mas F, Balogh ZJ, Di Carlo I, Zhang G, Lee JG, Weber DG, Ceresoli M, Bass GA, Abu-Zidan FM, Litvin A, Costa-Navarro D, Picetti E, González Castillo AM, Hecker A, Martínez-Pérez A, Ordoñez CA, Gurrado A, Pararas N, Gomes CA, Boermeester MA, Fraga GP, Pikoulis E, Pikouli A, Khan J, Ferrada P, Sakakushev BE, Teuben MPJ, Pintar Kaliterna T, Doklestić Vasiljev K, Ramia JM, Kirkpatrick AW, Inaba K, Moore EE, Biffl WL, Malbrain MLNG, Tomadze G, Puyana JC, Leppäniemi A, Sugrue M, Wani I, Latifi R, Kaafarani HM, Stahel PF, Ansaloni L, Coccolini F, Sartelli M. Procalcitonin-Informed Decision-Making in Abdominal and Emergency Surgery: A WSES Position Paper , Antibiotics (Basel), 15: 2026,1042
Wohlgemut JM, Gupta S, Cioffi SPB, Llaquet-Bayo H, Wohlgemut HS, Hobby J, Mohseni S, Mariani D, Gaarder C, Bass GA, Brundage S. The need for, feasibility of, and barriers to implementation of a trauma traveling fellowship: a survey of ESTES members , Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg, 52: 2026,278
Bunino FM, Cimino MM, Martinez Casas I, Bellio G, Porta M, Cayre L, Mohseni S, Kaplan LJ, Lee MJ, Bass GA, Kurihara H; ESTES SnapSBO Group. Small bowel obstruction in older adults: similar nonoperative success but worse outcomes across management strategies - insights from the ESTES SnapSBO study , Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg, 52: 2026,289
Cioffi SPB, Martinez-Casas I, Marrano E, Cimbanassi S, Cimino MM, Kurihara H, Mohseni S, Kaplan LJ, Lee MJ, Bass GA; ESTES SnapSBO Group. Adhesive small bowel obstruction in the virgin abdomen: comparable phenotype, divergent management , Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg, 52: 2026,302
Santos Carlin P, Bele P, Culkin M, Coons M, Kauffman A, Martinez-Quiñonez P, Georges A, Kaplan LJ, Johnson V, Meaney D, Smith DH, Bass GA, Pascual JL. Sex Influences Penumbral Leukocyte Mobilization after Severe TBI , Neurocrit Care: 2026
Duffy CC, Kim H, Weber D, Baji D, Bass GA, Atkins JH, Williams N, Dumon K. Development and Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Module for Emergency Front-of-Neck Access Training , Simul Healthc: 2026
Duffy CC, Ziemba JB, Karasek P, Bass GA. Collaborative safety: The impact of patient and caregiver engagement in perioperative care , PEC Innov, 9: 2026,100494
Coccolini F, Cicuttin E, Chirica M, Reva V, Coimbra R, Sartelli M, Isik A, Biffl WL, Cremonini C, Colli A, Besola L, Mariani D, Kluger Y, Ceresoli M, Kurihara H, Cimino M, Moore EE, Kessel B, Horer T, Ferrada P, Kirkpatrick AW, Pikoulis M, Catena F, Bass G; Pisa, Italy. The extended postoperative complication score: A dual-axis reporting plan for general surgery , J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 101: 2026,324-330
Ng WH, Bath MF, Amoako J, Kohler K, Baderhabusha DU, Cáceres E, Nuño-Guzmán CM, Moonesinghe R, Hobbs L, Smith BG, Weiser TG, Hardcastle TC, Perkins ZB, Bashford T; GOAL-Trauma Collaborative. Use of pre-operative blood products in abdominal trauma: a planned secondary analysis of the GOAL-trauma study , EClinicalMedicine, 93: 2026,103814
Ekestubbe L, Forssten MP, Forssten SP, Bass GA, AlHussaini Y, Mohseni S. Techniques for Mesoappendix Division and Appendiceal Stump Closure: A Comparative Review , Am Surg: 2026