Raul Coimbra, MD, PhD, FACS
Dr. Raul Coimbra is the Surgeon in Chief of the Riverside University Health System (RUHS)Medical Center, Professor of Surgery at Loma Linda University School of
Medicine, and Emeritus Professor University of California San Diego. He is also the
Director of the CECORC - Comparative Effectiveness and Clinical Outcomes Research
Center at RUHS.
Previously, Dr. Coimbra was the Director of the UCSD Level-1 Trauma Center and the
Chief of the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns, and Acute Care Surgery
for 2 decades. Dr. Coimbra played a significant role in strengthening San Diego’s first
Level-1 Trauma Center into one of the top programs in the nation, as well as a model
for trauma centers around the world.
His participation in global health and international outreach is enormous. Dr. Coimbra is
President of the Board of Directors for the World Coalition for Trauma Care, as well as a
member of the Global Alliance for the Care of the Injured within the Division of Trauma
and Injury Prevention of the World Health Organization. He is the Chairman of the
Trauma Registry and Data Committee for the World Health Organization.
In addition, Dr. Coimbra is a Past Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Trauma of the
American College of Surgeons (ACS) and Past Chairman of the ACS International Injury
Care Committee. He is also Past-President of the American Association for the Surgery
of Trauma, which is the premier trauma organization in the world!
Dr. Coimbra has more than 550 scientific publications in most clinical and experimental
aspects of Trauma, Emergency General Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care related
research.
