JaBaris Swain, MD, MBA, MPH is a cardiac surgeon, global health systems builder, and innovation leader operating at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and enterprise strategy. He currently serves in a senior innovation role at Johnson & Johnson while maintaining active clinical practice in cardiothoracic transplantation. His career spans academic medicine, pharmaceutical R&D, and global health delivery, with extensive experience designing and scaling high-stakes systems in both high-resource and resource-limited settings.Trained at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and the Wharton School, Dr. Swain brings a rare blend of clinical rigor, business acumen, and systems thinking to leadership challenges. His work focuses on translating complexity into accountable solutions—where decisions carry real consequences. Across global surgical partnerships, health equity initiatives, and enterprise innovation, he advances a disciplined, human-centered approach to leadership under pressure, reframing creativity as a systems capability measured by outcomes, resilience, and impact when failure is not an option.