Joseph H Gorman

Joseph H. Gorman, III received the B.S. degree (summa cum laude) in chemical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, and the M.D. degree (with honors) from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford, NJ. He completed residencies in general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia. While a resident, he completed a two-year National Institutes of Health funded postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Henry Edmunds during which he did groundbreaking research in the field of cardiac remodeling, mitral valve disease, and cardiac imaging. He currently co-directs the Gorman Cardiovascular Research Group, University of Pennsylvania. He is board certified in both general and cardiothoracic surgery. In addition to his research activities, he also performs an extensive amount of esophageal surgery for malignant and benign disease. He also directs a heart failure and device design laboratory. He is the author or coauthor of more than 100 original articles, chapters, and reviews. He has mentored over 20 postdoctoral fellows, medical students, graduate students, and undergraduates. His current research interests include the pathophysiology and treatment of heart failure, ventricular assist device design, percutaneous valve repair/replacement, cardiac imaging with MRI, CT and real-time 3-D echocardiography and near-IR spectroscopy, mitral valve physiology, ventricular pacing for heart failure, valve calcification, and biocompatibility of synthetic surfaces. He has served on numerous study sections and advisory committees for both the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association.