Positions
- Associate Professor of Surgery
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Division of Trauma, Bariatric and Acute Care Surgery
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- Program Director, General Surgery Residency - Global Track
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- Director, Strategic Planning
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Division of Global Surgery
Texas Children's Hospital
- Director, Center for Global Surgery
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- Interim Co-Director, Global Programs
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Addresses
- Ben Taub Hospital (Clinic)
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1504 Ben Taub Loop
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Education
- Residency at 91¹ú²úÊÓƵ
- Houston
- General Surgery
- Residency at 91¹ú²úÊÓƵ
- Houston
- Global Surgery Track
- MD from 91¹ú²úÊÓƵ
- 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
- 91¹ú²úÊÓƵ (10/2023)
- Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award
- 91¹ú²úÊÓƵ
- Professional Educator Appreciation and Recognition (PEAR) Award
- 91¹ú²úÊÓƵ
- Early Career Faculty Award for Excellence in Patient Care
- 91¹ú²úÊÓƵ
- O.H. Frazier, MD Innovation Award for Education
- Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery
- Faculty Excellence Award for Educational Materials
- 91¹ú²úÊÓƵ
Professional Interests
- Acute care surgery
- Robotic/minimally invasive surgery
- Academic Global Surgery
Professional Statement
Dr. Rachel Davis is an academic global surgeon at 91¹ú²úÊÓƵ, 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’s 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’s 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’s Hospital. She is a member of the acute care surgery faculty at Ben Taub Hospital and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center.
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’s Hospital. She is a member of the acute care surgery faculty at Ben Taub Hospital and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center.
Selected Publications
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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. ;
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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. ;
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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. ;
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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. ;
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