Rate My Professor Ankit Bharat

Ankit Bharat serves as Chief of Thoracic Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He holds the Harold L. and Margaret N. Method Professorship of Surgery and is Professor of Surgery (Thoracic Surgery) and Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care). He also serves as Executive Director of the Canning Thoracic Institute and Director of the Lung Transplant and Lung Rescue Programs at Northwestern Medicine.

Bharat earned his medical degree from Christian Medical College Vellore in 2003. He completed general surgery residency training in 2011 and cardiothoracic surgery fellowship training in 2013 at Washington University in St. Louis, where he was among the first international medical graduates accepted into the residency program. He pursued additional cardiothoracic training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Toronto General Hospital, and Barcelona University Hospitals. Bharat is board certified in general surgery and thoracic surgery. His clinical focus includes the treatment of malignant and benign diseases of the chest and esophagus. He performed the first double-lung transplant in the United States on a patient with severe COVID-19 and one of the first thoracic chemoperfusion procedures in Illinois. Bharat has received the 2016 Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson II Promising Investigator Award and a Lung Association Biomedical Research Grant. He serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology and as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Transplantation.