Faiz Bhora

Faiz Y. Bhora is an American thoracic surgeon. In 2022 he was appointed as the inaugural Regional Chair of Surgery for the central region for Hackensack Meridian Health. He is also the Associate Program Director of the Surgery Residency Program at Danbury Hospital.

Bhora specializes in minimally invasive approaches to thoracic diseases, including the use of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). This procedure is performed using a small video camera that is inserted into the patient's chest with robotic techniques. This includes the use of the da Vinci Surgical System to perform minimally invasive thoracic surgery.

Prior to his current position, he was the Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Associate Program Director of General Surgery Residency, Director of Robotic Thoracic Surgery and Research and Co-Director of the Airway Center at Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai Morningside in New York City. He held an academic appointment as Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, he served as System Chief of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Oncology Program at Nuvance Health, a group of seven hospitals in the Mid Hudson Valley area of New York and Western Connecticut, serving 1.5 million individuals, and having over 2,600 healthcare providers and physicians and was previously Associate Professor of Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Bhora has also served as a Board Member of Mount Sinai Health Partners and previously as chair of the Clinical Competency Committee for the Danbury Hospital General Surgery Residency before he was asked to step down from the position due to allegations of harassment toward the residents. Provided by Wikipedia