Rachel Wilkins Davis

Rachel Wilkins Davis, M.D., FACS

Associate Professor of Surgery

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Positions

Associate Professor of Surgery: Division of Trauma, Bariatric and Acute Care Surgery
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Program Director, General Surgery Residency - Global Track: ��Ƶ of Medicine

Director, Strategic Planning: Division of Global Surgery
Texas Children's Hospital

Director, Center for Global Surgery: ��Ƶ of Medicine

Interim Co-Director, Global Programs: ��Ƶ of Medicine

Addresses

Ben Taub Hospital (Clinic): 1504 Ben Taub Loop
Houston, TX, 77030
United States

Education

Residency at ��Ƶ of Medicine: Houston; General Surgery

Residency at ��Ƶ of Medicine: Houston; Global Surgery Track

MD from ��Ƶ of Medicine: 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: ��Ƶ of Medicine (10/2023)

Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award: ��Ƶ of Medicine

Professional Educator Appreciation and Recognition (PEAR) Award: ��Ƶ of Medicine

Early Career Faculty Award for Excellence in Patient Care: ��Ƶ of Medicine

O.H. Frazier, MD Innovation Award for Education: Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery

Faculty Excellence Award for Educational Materials: ��Ƶ of Medicine

Professional Interests

Acute care surgery
Robotic/minimally invasive surgery
Academic Global Surgery

Professional Statement

Dr. Rachel Davis is an academic global surgeon at ��Ƶ of Medicine, 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.

Websites

Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Center for Global Surgery

Global Surgery Residency Track

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. ;
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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 ��Ƶ Creates Evolving Ethical Dilemmas. " Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons. ;

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