Sudha Jayaraman, MD, MSc, FACS is a trauma surgeon and surgical intensivist with a background in public health. She is an Adjunct Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Utah and an industry advisor in medical technology. She has nearly 15 years of experience in clinical care, health systems research, global health and innovation.
Over the last five years, she has been Professor of Surgery, Director of the Center for Global Surgery and Director of Research at the Center of Medical Innovation at the University of Utah, where she was also the Cliff C. Snyder M.D. Far Eastern Presidential Endowed Chair. She was recruited from the Department of Surgery at VCU School of Medicine where she had been on faculty for seven years. She has been funded by the NIH, NIHR and Rotary Foundation for work on trauma systems development in Rwanda and has had a long standing collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Rwanda, colleagues at University of Rwanda, University Teaching Hospital Kigali and SAMU, the national ambulance service in Rwanda. Dr. Jayaraman is also a Board Examiner for the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa and has published extensively in global surgery and trauma emergency systems (>110 publications).
Dr. Jayaraman received her MD from University of California Davis School of Medicine and completed her General Surgery residency at the University of California San Francisco. She also received her MSc in Public Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She did her Acute Care Surgery, Burn and Surgical Critical Care fellowships at Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and received the Harvard Medical School Post-Graduate Health Disparities Fellowship to work on injury epidemiology in Kigali, Rwanda.
Dr. Jayaraman is an alumna of the 2021 North America Leadership Journey.