Matthew Bacchetta, MD - Department of Surgery

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Matthew Bacchetta, MD

Positions and Appointments
2007-present		Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery
2007-present		Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY
2007-present		Attending Surgeon
2007-present		NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

Clinical Specialties

General thoracic surgery
Lung transplantation
Minimally invasive therapies

Research Interests

Lung volume reduction
Ethics
Clinical outcomes

Education and Training
2005-2007		Thoracic Surgery Fellow, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
2005-2007		NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
2004-2005		Administrative Chief Resident
2004-2005		Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
2002-2004		Residency, General Surgery
2002-2004		Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
2000-2002		Research Fellow, Cardiothoracic Surgery
2000-2002		Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
1998-2000		Internship, General Surgery
1998-2000		Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
1994-1998		MD
1994-1998		Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
1991-1994		MA., Ethics/Reglious Studies
1991-1994		University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1987-1991		MBA
1987-1991		University of Virginia, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Charlottesville, VA
1981- 1985		BSE, Mechanical Engineering & Material Science
1981- 1985		Duke University, Durham, NC

Board Certifications

The American Board of Surgery, February 2006

Professional Experience

2000-2002		Instructor of Ethics
2000-2002		Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
2000-2002		Ethicist, PAD1 Advisory Committee
2000-2002		The American Heart Association, New York Chapter, New York, NY
2000- 2005		Editor, Bioethics Section
2000- 2005		Cancer Investigation (Journal), New York, NY
1995-2000		Assistant Editor, Bioethics Section
1995-2000		Cancer Investigation (Journal), New York, NY
1994-2005		Research in Ethics with Director of Medical Ethics, The New York Hospital
1994-2005		Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
1994, Summer		David P. Barr Research Fellow, Clinical Ethics
1994, Summer		Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
1994		Instructor of Medical Ethics
1994		University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, VA
1993		Consultant
1993		Prentice Hall Publishing, Charlottesville, VA
1991-1992		Senior Financial Analyst (Lead Analyst), Capital Markets- Financing and Investing
1991-1992		Treasurer's Office, General Motors Corporation, New York, NY
1990		Senior Financial Analyst, Foreign Exchange and International Cash Management
1990		Treasurer's Office, General Motors Corporation, New York, NY

Professional Honors

Cornell University Medical College
Alpha Omega Alpha – Medical Honor Society

Moselle and Milton Pollack Prize in Medical Ethics

University of Virginia
Faculty Award for Academic Excellence
William Shermet Award for Leadership and Academic Excellence

Professional Societies and Committees

American College of Surgeons
American Heart Association – Cardiovascular Surgery Council Section
American Medical Association
New York Academy of Sciences

Selected Publications

Bacchetta MD, Eachempati SR, Fins JJ, Hydo L, Barie PS. Factors influencing do-not-resuscitate decision making in a surgical intensive care unit. J Am Coll Surg. 2006; 202:995-1000.

Bacchetta MD, Girardi LN, Southard EJ, Mack CA, Ko W, Tortolani AJ, Krieger KH, Isom OW, Lee LY. Bedside percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy in the cardiothoracic surgical patient: Outcomes and financial analysis. Ann Thorac Surg. 2005; 79:1879-85.

Park BJ, Bacchetta MD, Bains MS, Downey RJ, Flores RJ, Rusch VW, Girardi LN. Surgical management of thoracic malignancies invading the heart or great vessels. Ann Thorac Surg. 2004; 78:1024-30.

Lee BS, Eachampati SR, Bacchetta MD, Levine MR, Barie PS. Survival after a documented 19-story fall: a case report. J Traum. 2003; 55(5):869-72.

Port JL, Kent M, Korst RJ, Bacchetta MD, Altorki NK. Thoracic esophageal perforations: a decade of experience. Ann Thorac Surg. 2003; 75(4):1071-4.

Bacchetta MD, Korst RJ, Altorki NK, Port JL, Isom OW, Mack CA. Resection of a symptomatic pericardial cyst using the computer-enhanced da Vinci Surgical System.Robotic resection of a symptomatic pericardial cyst. Ann Thorac Surg. 2003; 75(6):1953-5.

Bacchetta MD, Ko W, Girardi LN, Mack CA, Krieger KH, Isom OW, Lee LY. Outcomes of cardiac surgery in nonagenarians: a 10-year experience. Ann Thorac Surg. 2003 Apr; 75(4):1215-20.

Comerota AJ, Throm RC, Miller KA, Henry T, Chronos N, Laird J, Sequeira R, Kent GK, Bacchetta MD, Goldman C, Salenius JP, Schmieder FA, Pilsudski R. Naked plasmid DNA encoding Fibroblastic Growth Factor Type 1 (NVIFGF) for the treatment of end-stage unreconstructible lower extremity ischemia: Preliminary results of a Phase I Trial. J Vasc Surg. 2002;35:930-6.

Barie PS, Bacchetta MD, Eachempati SR. The Contemporary Surgical Intensive Care Unit: Structure, Staffing, and Issues. Schwab CW and Reilly PM (Guest Editors). Surgical Clinics of North America: Critical Care of the Trauma Patient: Concepts, Technology, and Problems. June 2000. 80:791-804.

Eachempati SR, Bacchetta MD, Barie PS. The Image of Trauma: Nail Gun Injury to the Right Ear and Base of Skull. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 1999; 47:985.

Fins JJ, Miller FG, Acres CA, Bacchetta MD, Huzzard LL, Rapkin BD. End-Of-life Decision-Making in the Hospital: Current Practice and Future Prospects. The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 1999; 17:6-15.

Fins JJ, Miller FG, Bacchetta MD. Clinical Pragmatism: Bridging Theory and Practice. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. 1998; 8(1):3742.

Bacchetta MD and Richter G. Contemporary Ethical Analysis: A Shortfall in Scientific Analysis. Politics and the Life Sciences. 1998; 17(1):11-12.

Richter G and Bacchetta MD. Interventions in the Human Genome: Some Moral and Ethical Considerations. J Med Philos. 1998; 23(3):303-317.

Bacchetta MDand Fins JJ. The Economics of Clinical Ethics Programs: A Quantitative Justification. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 1997; 6:451-460.

Fins JJ, Bacchetta MD, Miller FG. Clinical Pragmatism: A Method of Moral Problem Solving. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. 1997; 7(2):129-145.

Dickson RC, Wright RM, Bacchetta MD, Bodily SE, Caldwell SH, Driscoll CJ, Pruett TL, Ishitani MB. Quality of Life of hepatitis B and C patients after liver transplantation. Clin. Transplant. 1997 Aug; 11(4):282-285.

Miller FG, Fins JJ, Bacchetta MD. Clinical Pragmatism: John Dewey and Clinical Ethics. The Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy. Fall 1996; 13:27-51.

Bacchetta MD and Richter G. Dimensions and Classification of Genetic Interventions in Human Genome. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 1996; 5:450-457.

Fins JJ and Bacchetta MD. Framing the Physician Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia Debate: The Role of Deontology, Consequentialism, and Clinical Pragmatism. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1995;43:563-568.

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Chapters

Barie, PS, Bacchetta MD, Fins JJ, Eachempati SR. Research in the Intensive Care Unit: Ethical and Methodological Issues. Surgical Research. Souba WW, Wilmore DW, eds. New York: Academic Press, 2001; 137-154.

Fins JJ, Bacchetta MD, Miller FG. Pragmatic Ethics. Edited by Glen McGee. Vanderbilt University Press, 1999. (Part of the Classics in American Philosophy Series).

Miller FG, Fins JJ, Bacchetta MD. Clinical Pragmatism: John Dewey and Clinical Ethics. Frontiers in Bioethics: Essays dedicated to John C. Fletcher. Edited by Franklin G. Miller. Hagerstown, Maryland: University Publishing Group, 2000.

Reprinted in Caring for the Dying: Identification and Promotion of Physician Competency (Collection of Relevant Reprints) Philadelphia: American Board of Internal Medicine, 1996:

Fins JJ and Bacchetta MD. Framing the Physician Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia Debate: The Role of Deontology, Consequentialism, and Clinical Pragmatism. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 1995; 43:563-568.

Fins JJ and Bacchetta MD. Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Debate: An Annotated Bibliography of Representative Articles. The Journal of Clinical Ethics . 1994; 5(4):329-340.

ABSTRACTS/POSTERS/PRESENTATIONS

Comas G. Bacchetta MD. Ginsburg M. Endobronchial Sclerosis of pulmonary parenchyma in rats. American College of Chest Physicians. 2007.

Biviano A, Bacchetta MD, Dizon J, Whang W, Cormilas J, Garan H, Wilt J, Sonett JR, Ehlert FA. American College of Cardiology 56th Annual Scientific Session. New Orleans, LA. March 2007.

Milla F, Bacchetta MD, Hong MK, Zhou Y, Chen R, Yu F, Southard E, Lee LY, Ko W, Mack CA, Krieger KH, Isom OW, Catanzaro DF. Low-dose spironolactone promotes adaptive arterialization of vein grafts but does not prevent restenosis of angioplastied coronary arteries. 6th Annual Conference on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. AHA. Washington, DC. April, 2005.

Ko W, Bacchetta MD, Uberoi R. Off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery in octogenarian patients. 13th World Congress of the International Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons. San Diego, CA. November 2003.

Bacchetta MD, Aronis M, Janssen S, Uberoi R, Ko W. Off-pump CABG has lower troponin release and less morbidity than on-pump CABG. Chest 2002; 122:124S. Abstract presentation at the Chest 2002 Conference. San Diego, CA. November 2002.

Bacchetta MD, Zhou, Y, Chen R, Samy SA, Salemi A, Hamawy A, Hu L, Krieger KH, Isom OW, Ko W, Catanzaro DF. DNA Microarray analysis of the progressive arterialization and intimal hyperplasia of venous grafts in a canine model. 51st Annual Scienfific Session. American College of Cardiology. March 2002.

Bacchetta MD, Moore MR, Levine DM, Parker TS, Gordon BR, Isom OW, Krieger KH, Girardi LN, Ko W, Saal SD. Elevated serum interleukin-6, has prognostic significance fro postoperative outcome in patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery. 51st Annual Scienfific Session. American College of Cardiology. March 2002.

Bacchetta MD, Samy S, Ko W, Isom OW, Hamawy A, Salemi A, Salemi A, Phillips A, Catanzaro DF. Intimal hyperplasia in arterialized venous grafts in a canine model. American Heart Association Myocardial Ischemia Scientific Conference on Molecular, Integrative and Clinical Approaches to Myocardial Ischemia. Seattle, WA. August 2001.

Bacchetta MD, Ko W, Samy S, Isom OW, Hamawy A, Salemi A, Catanzaro DF. Gene Expression in Intimal Hyperplasia. 4th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy. Seattle, WA. 2001.

Bacchetta MD, Hydo LJ, Heller DP, Eachempati SR, Barie PS. Factors Influencing Do-Not_Resuscitate (DNR) Decision Making in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit. Poster Presented. Society of Critical Care Medicine. 28th Educational & Scientific Symposium. San Francisco, CA. January 23-27, 1999.

Richter G. and Bacchetta MD. The Need for a New Classification of Interventions into the Human Genome in Regard to Ethical Analysis and Evaluation. The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Houston, TX. November 18-22, 1998.

Bacchetta MD, Fins JJ, Miller FG. Pragmatism in the Clinic: The Role of Decision and Financial Analysis in Hospital Based Ethics and End of Life Care. National Conference on the Ethics of Health Care Organizations. A New National Agenda: Organization Ethics in Health Care. University of Virginia. September 25-26, 1998.

Suzman M, Bacchetta MD, DeRubertis B, Grillo JA, Barie PS. Safety and Efficacy of Once-Daily Aminoglycoside Therapy in Surgical Patients. Abstract and Poster for Meeting of Surgical Infection Society. April 1998.

Wright R, Bacchetta MD, Ishitani MB, Bodily S, Caldwell SH, Stevenson WC, McCullough CS, Pruett TR, Dickson RC. HBV Liver Patients Achieve Quality of Life Comparable to HCV Liver Transplant Patients. Abstract and Poster for Meeting of AGA, AASLD at Digestive Disease Week. May 1995.

PATENTS

Use of spironolactone for adoptive arterialization of venous grafts and arterial stents. Catanzaro DF, Bacchetta MD, Krieger KH, Lee LY, Isom OW. Pending Review.

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