Gary Alan Bass, MD, MS, MBA, MRCSI, PhD, FEBS(Em Surg)
Trauma Surgery, General 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
- Medical School: Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Residency: James Connolly Memorial Hospital
- Residency: Aesthetic Breast and Cosmetic Surgery Center
- Residency: Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
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.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
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 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, National
- Item writer for the 2024-2025 This Week in SCORE’s Transfusion and Disorders of Coagulation quiz. The SCORE Portal. http://www.surgicalcore.org. Published June 23, 2024., National
- Item writer for the SCORE Question Bank. The SCORE Portal. http://www.surgicalcore.org. Published July 2024., National
- Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, Local
- Philadelphia County Medical Society, Local
- Society for Critical Care Medicine, National
- Teaching Faculty, Modular Ultrasound for Surgeons ESTES Course (MUSEC), International
- Teaching Faculty, World Society of Emergency Surgery "Emergency Abdominal Surgery Course", International
- World Society for Emergency Surgery, International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
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: 2026
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
Bath MF, Amoako J, Edmiston T, Ratnayake AS, Kabatoro D, Bagaria D, Menon R, Wohlgemut JM, Hobbs L, Smith BG, Nuño-Guzmán CM, Vélez SE, Brennan R, Conway Morris A, Hardcastle TC, Weiser T, Bashford T; Global Trauma Care Delphi Collaborative; Global Trauma Care Delphi. Defining the bellwether procedures and processes for global trauma care: an international Delphi study , BMJ Glob Health, 11: 2026,e020909
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
NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery. 30-day postoperative mortality and the effects of hospital preparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a pooled analysis of prospective international cohort studies , Lancet Reg Health Eur, 62: 2026,101566
Santos Carlin P, Kaplan LJ, Katz E, Kauffman A, Coons M, Bele P, Culkin M, Georges A, Augustin D, Meaney D, Smith D, Bass GA, Pascual JL. TXA after severe TBI: Learning and memory benefits are prominent only in males , J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 100: 2026,739-746
Bass GA, McLaughlin CJ, Kaplan LJ, Lee MJ. Dogma, data, and decision-making: a history of treatment for small-bowel obstruction , World J Emerg Surg, 21: 2026,7
Kemp Bohan PM, Bass GA. From Battlefield to Bedside: Approaches to Emergency Airway Control , Anesthesiol Clin: 2026
Mohamed A, Papazian E, Duffy CC, Bass GA. Institutional Competence in Rigid Bronchoscopy for Oxygenation-Ventilation Rescue Is Vital Within the Difficult-Airway Continuum , Anesthesiol Clin: 2026
Lee MJ, Kaplan LJ, Mohseni S, Cimino M, Kurihara H, Martinez-Casas I, Bass GA; SnapSBO Collaborators. Impact of surgery and complications on GI recovery after SBO: Insights from the SnapSBO cohort , Colorectal Dis: 2026