Gary Bass, MD, MSc is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery. He aims to leverage his clinical and academic interests in trauma, emergency general surgery, surgical critical care, and the intersection of implementation science and surgical outcomes research to improve data-driven clinician decision support and patient outcomes. Bass has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and has been cited over 2,800 times.
He is an Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) instructor and teaches in the Modular Ultrasound for Surgeons Course (MUSEC). He also serves on the curriculum steering committee for the AAST/ESTES Emergency Surgery Course. Bass has served on the Emergency Surgery and Visceral Trauma Committees of the European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery, the Multi-Institutional Trials Committee of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), and the Manuscript and Literature Review Committee of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST).
After earning a Master of Science in Physiology from University College Dublin in Ireland, Bass completed medical school and a general surgery residency at the Royal College of Surgeons. He is European Board-certified (FEBS) in General and Emergency Surgery. Bass also earned a Master of Business Administration from the Quantic School of Business in Washington, D.C., and is currently pursuing a PhD in Surgical Sciences at Örebro University in Sweden, where he studies practice patterns, behaviors, and outcomes in complicated biliary calculous disease.