Rachel Wilkins Davis, M.D., FACS
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Positions
- Assistant Professor of Surgery
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Division of Trauma, Bariatric and Acute Care Surgery
草榴社区入口
- Program Director, General Surgery Residency - Global Track
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草榴社区入口
- Director, Strategic Planning
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Division of Global Surgery
Texas Children's Hospital
- Director, Center for Global Surgery
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草榴社区入口
Addresses
- Ben Taub Hospital (Clinic)
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1504 Ben Taub Loop
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Education
- Residency at 草榴社区入口
- Houston
- General Surgery
- Residency at 草榴社区入口
- Houston
- Global Surgery Track
- MD from 草榴社区入口
- Houston
- BS from Texas A&M University
- College Station
- BA from Texas A&M University
- College Station
Honors & Awards
- Gold Humanism Honor Society
- Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
- Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
- Humanitarian Award
- 草榴社区入口 (10/2023)
- Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award
- 草榴社区入口
- Professional Educator Appreciation and Recognition (PEAR) Award
- 草榴社区入口
- Early Career Faculty Award for Excellence in Patient Care
- 草榴社区入口
- O.H. Frazier, MD Innovation Award for Education
- Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery
Professional Interests
- Acute care surgery
- Robotic/minimally invasive surgery
- Academic Global Surgery
Professional Statement
Dr. Rachel Davis is an academic global surgeon at 草榴社区入口, where she is director of the Baylor Center for Global Surgery. In 2014, she developed the Baylor Global Surgery Track of the general surgery residency program, which is the first integrated, longitudinal global surgery training program nationally and the only global surgery program in the NRMP match. Additionally, she is the director of strategic planning in the Division of Global Surgery at Texas Children鈥檚 Hospital. She has worked to build educational opportunities for trainees and professionals, including development of the Global Trauma Collaboration, which provides biweekly virtual trauma education for conflict zones, the Baylor Global Surgery Advocacy & Policy Fellowship in collaboration with Rice University鈥檚 Baker Institute for Public Policy, and the Essential Surgery Skills Conference in conjunction with the National School of Tropical Medicine. Dr. Davis has worked toward expansion of surgical access in Ecuador, Guatemala, Malawi, Mongolia, Nepal, Myanmar, and Tanzania. She is a current Baylor Global Health Scholar and nonresident Fellow of the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.She joined the department as director of the Global Surgery Residency Track and as well as director of Strategic Planning in the Division of Global Surgery at Texas Children鈥檚 Hospital. She is a member of the acute care surgery faculty at Ben Taub Hospital and Baylor St. Luke鈥檚 Medical Center.
Websites
Selected Publications
- Davis RW, Sherif YA, Vu MT, Shilstone H, Scott B, Olutoye O, Hollier LH Jr, Nuchtern J, Rosengart TK "Personalized Graduate Medical Education and the Academic Global Surgeon: Training for Resource-Limited Settings." Academic Medicine.;
- Sherif YA, Davis RW "Formal Training of the Global Surgeon: Current Educational Paradigms and Critical Elements for Progression." Global Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics of North America.;
- Sherif, YA., Choudhury, T, Makasa, E, Rosengart TK, Davis, RW, Kaseje, N "The Ethics of Educating American Global Surgeons: An Approach to Conscientious Training on the Individual, Departmental, and Institutional Levels." JACS.;
- Scott EM, Mehta K, Sherif Y, Davis RW "The Role of Surgeons in Health Policy: Leveraging our Position to Address Global Road Traffic Injury." Bull Am Coll of Surg.;
- Sherif YA, Hassan MA, Vu MT, Rosengart TK, Davis, RW "." Medical Teacher.; Pubmed PMID:
- Davis RW, Johnson WD, Hollier LH Jr "Addressing the Surgical Deficit: A Global Imperative for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global.;
- Davis RW, Johnson WD "Cross-Cutting Health: Global Surgery, Obstetrics, Anesthesia, and the World Health Organization." Bull Am Coll of Surg.;
- Chen DW, Davis RW, Balentine CJ, Scott AR, Gao Y, Tapia NM, Berger DH, Suliburk JW "Utility of routine postoperative visit after appendectomy and cholecystectomy with evaluation of mobile technology access in an urban safety net population." J Surg Res.;
- Sherif YA, Erdene S, Khan L, Rosengart TK, Asturias S, Davis RW, Philipo G "Fidelity in Academic Global Surgery and Research: Incorporating Trustworthiness in the Development of Research Partnerships, Infrastructure, and Policy." Journal of the American College of Surgeons.;
- Scott EM, Enumah ZO, Mehta K, Kontchou NA, Davis RW "Practical and Ethical Guidelines for the Involvement of Trainees in Global Surgery: Consensus Statement and Recommendations from the Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons Global Surgery Work Group." Journal of the American College of Surgeons.;
- Sherif YA, Sama Philipo G, Makasa EM, Nguyen BU, Dinh LT, Bansal S, Rosengart TK, Davis RW "Globalization of 草榴社区入口 Creates Evolving Ethical Dilemmas." Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons.;
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