Professor Kenji Inaba
MD FRCSC FACS
Professor and Vice Chair of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Dr. Inaba is a Professor of Surgery, Anesthesia and Emergency Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. He is the Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery, and the program director for the General Surgery Residency training program. He is also the Chief of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at the Los Angeles General Medical Center.
He has lectured extensively, having given more than 450 lectures around the world. As a researcher, he has authored more than 750 peer reviewed articles, 470 scientific presentations, 65 textbook chapters, and is the editor of 9 textbooks. He is an Associate Editor for both the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery as well as Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open. While at USC, he has been the recipient of 26 teaching awards including the USC Keck School of Medicine Overall Excellence in Teaching Award for the Clinical Sciences. He is a director of the American Board of Surgery and a member of numerous surgical societies, leading initiatives such as the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Stop the Bleed program. In addition to his role at USC, Dr. Inaba has led humanitarian surgical teams to Haiti and Nepal as well as most recently the Ukraine. He is the Medical Consultant for Grey’s Anatomy, and is also a sworn Reserve Police Officer, and the Medical Director for the Los Angeles Police Department, currently assigned to Metropolitan Division. |