Background
Griffith, Bartley P. was born on January 27, 1949 in Pittsburgh.
Griffith, Bartley P. was born on January 27, 1949 in Pittsburgh.
Bachelor in Biology, Bucknell U., 1970; Doctor of Medicine, Jefferson medical College, 1974.
Intern in surgery, U. Pittsburgh School Medicine/Health Center Hospitals, 1974-1975;
resident in general and cardiothoracic surgery, U. Pittsburgh School Medicine/Health Center Hospitals, 1975-1977, 78-79;
research fellow, U. Pittsburgh School Medicine/Health Center Hospitals, 1977-1978;
chief resident in cardiothoracic surgery, U. Pittsburgh School Medicine/Health Center Hospitals, 1979-1981;
assistant professor surgery, U. Pittsburgh School Medicine, 1981-1986;
associate professor, U. Pittsburgh School Medicine, 1986-1988;
Henry T. Bahnson professor surgery, U. Pittsburgh School Medicine, since 1988. Staff cardiothoracic surgeon Presbyterian U. Hospital, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, U. Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian, U. Pittsburgh Medical Center-Shadyside, St. Margaret Memorial Hospital. Chairman long range planning committee Family House, Inc., since 1985, executive director, since 1986.
Director U. Pittsburgh Surgical Research Laboratory, 1986. Member board directors University Surgical Associations, since 1987. Director pulmonary transplant program U. Pittsburgh, 1989-1995, chief cardiothoracic division, since 1990, co-director Heart Institute, since 1991, co-director Comprehensive Lung Center, since 1992.
Board of directors Health Research and Superior vena cava syndrome Foundation, 1986-1988. Chairman, director traveling fellowship committee Evarts A. Graham Memorial, 1990-1991. Co-director 3d Internat.Conf. on Circulatory Support Devices for Severe Cardiac Failure, Pittsburgh, 1994.
Member National Institutes of Health Surgery, Anesthesiology and Trauma Study Section Division of research grants, 1993-1997.
Fellow American College of Surgeons. Member American Medical Association, American Surgical Association, Society Clinical Surgery, Pennsylvania Association Thoracic Surgery, American Association Thoracic Surgery, Society University Surgeons, Society Thoracic Surgeons, Allegheny County Medical Society, Pennsylvania Medical Society, American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, Association for Academy Surgery, Transplantation Society International Society for Heart Transplantation, Pittsburgh Academy Medicine, Harbison Surgical Society, Transplant Recipients International Organisation (honorary board directors), Thoracic Surgery Dirs. Association, Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education (chairman research committee 1998).
M. denise Griffith; children: Bartley Junior, Cullen, David.
