Christian A. Bermudez MD

Dr. Christian Bermudez is the Director of Thoracic Transplantation at the University of Pennsylvania and Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is also the Surgical Director of Lung Transplantation and ECMO at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bermudez is formerly the Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Surgical Director of the ECMO Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and formerly an Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Bermudez earned both his undergraduate and his medical degree from the University of Concepcion School of Medicine. He then completed consecutive residencies at the University of Chile, first in General Surgery and then in Cardiovascular Surgery. He completed an advanced fellowship in Cardiac Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, followed by a fellowship in Cardiothoracic Transplantation Ventricular Circulatory Support at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.