Cardiothoracic Surgery Faculty

Since August, 2002 Dr. Grover has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Colorado Denver. From 1991 to 2003, Dr. Grover was Professor and Head of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Colorado Denver and Chief of Surgical Services at the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

He is a graduate of Duke University and Duke University School of Medicine. He obtained his residency training at Duke University and the University of Colorado. Following two years of military service in the U.S. Navy in San Diego, Dr. Grover spent nineteen years of his career at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. In addition to being busy clinically in the areas of acquired adult cardiac surgery and lung and heart transplantation, Dr. Grover has a major interest in risk-adjusted outcomes analyses and quality improvement in the field of cardiothoracic surgery. He chaired the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Workforce on National Databases from 1995 to 2004. In addition, he chairs the National Cardiac Surgery Consultants Committee for the Department of Veterans Affairs and in that capacity, has helped to organize the VA Cardiac Surgery Database. He recently chaired the United Network for Organ Sharing Thoracic Committee, and now serves on the UNOS Board of Directors.  He is the Co-Principal Investigator of a large VA multicenter clinical trial comparing off pump to on pump coronary artery bypass.

Dr. Grover belongs to numerous professional organizations including the American Medical Association, American College of Surgeons, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Surgical Association, the Western Thoracic Surgical Association, the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Society of University Surgeons, the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation and is a past-president of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association. Dr. Grover is currently President of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons for 2006. He recently served on the National Quality Forum Steering Committee for Standardizing Cardiac Surgery Performance Measures. He has authored or co-authored over 240 scientific papers, many of which are in the area of utilizing surgical databases for quality improvement.