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
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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.

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
Dr. Bass is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

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

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