Positions

Associate Professor of Surgery

Division of Trauma, Bariatric and Acute Care Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine

Program Director, General Surgery Residency - Global Track

Baylor College of Medicine

Director, Strategic Planning

Division of Global Surgery
Texas Children's Hospital

Director, Center for Global Surgery

Baylor College of Medicine

Interim Co-Director, Global Programs

Baylor College of Medicine

Addresses

Ben Taub Hospital (Clinic)

1504 Ben Taub Loop
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Education

Residency at Baylor College of Medicine

Houston

General Surgery

Residency at Baylor College of Medicine

Houston

Global Surgery Track

MD from Baylor College 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

Baylor College of Medicine (10/2023)

Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award

Baylor College of Medicine

Professional Educator Appreciation and Recognition (PEAR) Award

Baylor College of Medicine

Early Career Faculty Award for Excellence in Patient Care

Baylor College of Medicine

O.H. Frazier, MD Innovation Award for Education

Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery

Faculty Excellence Award for Educational Materials

Baylor College 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 Baylor College 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

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.;