Dr. Sudha Jayaraman is a Professor of Surgery in the Division of General Surgery and Director of the Center for Global Surgery at the University of Utah.
Dr. Jayaraman previously completed several projects on trauma epidemiology and trauma systems development in Uganda, and upon finishing her residency program, she went on to do a Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School where she was awarded the Harvard Medical School Health Disparities Fellowship to work on evaluating disparities in injury mortality in Kigali, Rwanda. She is an author and peer-reviewer for the Cochrane Systematic Reviews Injury Group and a collaborator and coauthor of numerous papers on Global Burden of Disease by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation. She has been funded by the NIH, Rotary Foundation and DOD for domestic and global trauma research.
Sudha and her husband enjoy all sorts of adventures with their son, including hiking, biking, kayaking, snorkeling, or camping. She is currently working to obtain her private pilot license and learning to play the piano.
Research Interests: Trauma and acute injury treatment in developing countries, trauma epidemiology, global surgery
Education:
M.D., University of California Davis
Residency, General Surgery, University of California San Francisco
M.Sc., Public Health in Developing Countries, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery fellowship, Brigham & Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School