Dr. Davis founded Wellspring CardioVascular in 2003 to offer patients access to compassionate care that incorporated minimally invasive techniques not commonly available to patients. Much like those who trained him (see below), his practice has been punctuated by numerous ‘firsts’. He received broad media attention for the worldwide first-in-history procedure he designed to successfully preserve the lung function of Grammy Award winner, Emilio, after he suffered severe chest trauma in a tour bus accident. Dr. Davis performed the first successful robotic-assisted coronary bypass operation at The Methodist Hospital as a member of the Methodist-Debakey Heart Center, and the first successful robotic-assisted multi-vessel coronary bypass operation at the Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. He has pioneered novel therapies for thoracic empyema, the resection of vascular tumors (one was the 22nd in recorded history), and reduction of peripheral amputations. While some situations require new solutions, he is dedicated to performing the tried-and-true with exacting vigilance. His clinical excellence is not lost on those who maintain national registries of patient outcomes, having been asked to perform operations on informed executives interested in limiting their exposure to risk. He has consulted and operated on  patients from Washington, D.C. to San Diego, Cape Cod to Mexico City. For Dr. Davis, surgery, like all art, requires skill, practice, and the passion to take the status quo to a higher level.

Raised in the Midwest and Carolinas, Dr. Davis’s higher education began as a John M. Morehead Scholar (now Morehead-Cain) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he double majored. He attended Duke University Medical School as a Board of Governors Scholar where he performed research on the mechanical function of the heart with the Chairman of Medicine and chief of Cardiology, Dr. Joseph C. Greenfield, Jr. He was recruited to remain at Duke for his residency in Surgery by the chairman, Dr. David Sabiston (renowned surgical pioneer & first to perform a coronary bypass operation in the world). As part of his residency he conducted basic science research at Northwestern University as part of the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute under the guidance of Dr. Robert Anderson and Dr. Francis Klocke (past president of American College of Cardiology). His research flourished and he joined the PhD. program in the division of Biomedical Engineering studying vascular dynamics. He completed his General Surgical training at Boston University and Cardiothoracic Surgery training at Albert Einstein University in New York City. An Advanced Aortic and Vascular Surgery Fellowship was then completed in Houston, Texas under the guidance of the internationally renowned surgeon, Hazim Safi, MD.