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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 2007

Babak Sarani, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - Surgical Critical Care
  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Am Assn for Surg of Traum
  • Soc of Univ Surg
  • Soc of Critical Care Med
  • Amer Surg Assn

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

General Surgery

2150 Pennsylvania Ave NW Ste 6B

Washington, DC 20037

United States

Contact Information

Biography

I am the Director of the Center for Trauma and Critical Care and Chief of the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Program at George Washington University Hospital. I also direct the GW Transfer Center and am the medical director of the critical care transport team.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Critical Care

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • appendectomy
  • peritonitis

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • cholecystectomy
  • gallstone disease
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Skin & Soft Tissue Disorders/Procedures

  • skin and soft tissue infections

Trauma/Injury Procedures

  • abdominal injuries
  • abdominal wall reconstruction
  • blunt trauma
  • chest injuries
  • cricothyroidotomy
  • intestine injuries
  • liver injury
  • neck injuries
  • stomach injuries
  • vascular injuries

Hospital Appointments

Hosp of the Univ of Pa

Philadelphia, PA,

Attending

07/2005—10/2011

George Washington University

Washington DC,

Attending

11/2011—Present

Academic Appointments

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Philadelphia, PA

Assistant Professor

07/2005—10/2011

George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Washington, DC

Associate Professor

11/2011—Present