Positions

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Division of Trauma 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

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

Humanitarian Award

Baylor College of Medicine (10/2023)

Professional Interests

• Acute care surgery
• Robotic/minimally invasive surgery
• Academic Global Surgery

Professional Statement

Dr. Rachel W. Davis attended Baylor College of Medicine for both medical school and residency, where she was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. As a general surgery resident, she created and developed the Global Surgery Residency Track, the first dedicated global surgery training program in the NRMP match. Since 2014, she has worked with the Department of Surgery to build educational opportunities in global surgery for trainees and professionals, including the Diploma Course in Tropical Surgery, Obstetrics, and Gynecology in conjunction with the National School of Tropical Medicine. Dr. Davis has worked toward expansion of surgical access in Ecuador, Guatemala, Malawi, Mongolia, Nepal, and Tanzania. She is chair of the American College of Surgeons Resident and Associate Society (RAS-ACS) Global Surgery Work Group and a member of the Houston Global Health Collaborative Board of Directors.

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.;