Raul Coimbra

Dr. Coimbra is the Monroe E. Trout Professor of Surgery and Executive Vice-Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine. Dr. Coimbra is also Chief of the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Burns at UCSD Medical Center. Among his many appointments, Dr. Coimbra currently serves as President of the World Coalition for Trauma Care, is Vice-Chair of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, and is the Recorder and Chair of the Scientific Program Committee of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Dr. Coimbra is an author on more than 350 publications, is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Trauma, World Journal of Surgery, Pan-American Journal of Trauma, World Journal Emergency Surgery, European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery (Associate Editor), and is an ad-hoc reviewer of scientific articles for the Annals of Surgery, Critical Care Medicine, International Pharmacology, Experimental Biology and Medicine, Archives of Surgery, and others. Dr. Coimbra has been involved in multiple clinical studies and conducted basic research in the area of trauma, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic organ failure, resuscitation, and many others. He received his MD and Ph.D. from Santa Casa School of Medicine in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1985, where he also completed his residency training in General and Peripheral Vascular Surgery in the Department of Surgery.