Jabaris Demond Swain MD, MPH

JaBaris Swain continued his clinical training in Boston at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. While at Brigham, Swain completed one year as a junior clinical fellow in cardiovascular intensive care, earned his MPH at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness, and spent one year abroad in Rwanda, studying outcomes of cardiac surgery in adolescents and young adults with rheumatic heart disease, while serving as a research advisor to the Ministry of Health in the expert area of cardiovascular disease. Following his time in Rwanda, Swain completed the general surgery residency at Brigham and went on to match into the cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. This was followed by an additional year of advanced fellowship training in cardiopulmonary transplantation and mechanical circulatory support at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania as well. All throughout his training, Swain has remained committed to his passion for humanitarian cardiac surgery and public health by returning to Rwanda annually to provide cardiovascular care, including surgery, to young adults and adolescents suffering from heart disease.