Mohamed-Omar Arafeh, MD

Mohamed Arafeh is a practicing, fellowship-trained, robotic acute care surgeon at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and assistant professor of surgery at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Mohamed obtained his medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine. After completing his general surgery training at Western Michigan University, Mohamed pursued a trauma and surgical critical care fellowship at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University where he was later recruited as faculty. Clinically, Mohamed promotes emergency general surgery through minimally invasive technique. Mohamed utilizes the robotic platform throughout his acute care surgical practice and is passionate about its impact on improving patient outcomes. In addition, Mohamed has rooted interests in building sustainable, surgical infrastructure in resource limited regions of the world and spent part of his training abroad to help develop local surgical services within refugee communities. During his research internship at the Johns Hopkins Surgery Center for Outcomes, Mohamed helped to further understand healthcare inequities within trauma care and disparities related to trauma outcomes. Future research interests are focused on better understanding variability in emergency general surgery outcomes, as well as the effect of minimally invasive approaches and procedural regionalization. Amongst various educational roles, Mohamed enjoys learning new ways to standardize the objective assessment of surgical technique using today’s technology. Historically, he remains invested in meaningful surgical mentorship as well as the personal and professional growth of his surgical trainees.

Critical Care

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

Hernia Procedures

Trauma/Injury Procedures

Rhode Island Hospital

Providence, RI

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

08/2021—09/2022

High Point Medical Center

High Point, NC

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

10/2022—Present

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Winston-Salem, NC

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

10/2022—Present

Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Providence, RI

Clinical Instructor

08/2021—09/2022

Wake Forest School of Medicine of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

Winston-Salem, NC

Assistant Professor

10/2022—Present