Dr. Jay Bhama
Dr. Jay Bhama has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences as a heart surgeon, professor and chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery in the Department of Surgery.
He will lead the cardiovascular program at UAMS by working alongside Dr. Paul Mounsey, director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine. Both departments are in the UAMS College of Medicine.
Bhama is a nationally recognized heart surgeon with health care leadership experience within the cardiovascular arena and more than 15 years of experience.
He divides his time between UAMS and Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock, where he serves as the Heart Failure and Transplant Institute’s surgical director for heart transplantation and co-director for mechanical circulatory support and left ventricular assist devices.
Before joining UAMS, Bhama was a professor and chief of the adult cardiac surgery program at University of Iowa Health Care in Iowa City and associate director of the cardiothoracic transplant and artificial heart programs at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
He earned his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and completed a general surgical residency in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, also at Baylor.
Bhama completed cardiothoracic surgical training at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
He also completed an advanced cardiac surgery fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and a fellowship in cardiothoracic transplant and mechanical circulatory support at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Bhama is a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and American Board of Thoracic Surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, American College of Cardiology, and American College of Chest Physicians.
Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. has named him one of the nation’s top doctors in thoracic and cardiac surgery based upon peer nominations.
Bhama is widely published, holds several patents on innovative medical devices, and serves as a reviewer for the field’s leading medical journal. He is also the state’s only cardiothoracic surgeon member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
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