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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2015

Rahila Essani, MBBS FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs
  • Am Soc of Col& Rec Surg

Additional Information

Gender

Female

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

General Surgery

MS 01-730C

2401 South 31st Street

Temple, TX 76508

United States

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Anal-rectal Disorders/Procedures

Colon and Rectal Disorders/Cancer

  • anal abscess
  • anal cancer
  • colectomy
  • colon cancer screening
  • colon surgery
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • colonic polyps
  • colonoscopy
  • colostomy
  • Crohn's disease
  • diverticular disease
  • gastrointestinal bleeding
  • hemorrhoidectomy
  • ileostomy
  • intestinal failure management
  • intussusception
  • irritable bowel syndrome
  • laparoscopic colon surgery
  • spastic colon
  • ulcerative colitis

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • laparoscopic surgery
  • microsurgery

Hospital Appointments

Scott & White Memorial Hospital

Temple, TX

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

07/2011—Present

Academic Appointments

Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine

Bryan, TX

Assistant Professor

10/2013—Present