Dr. Rafael Consunji
Dr. Consunji [cohn-soon-hee] is an academic surgeon, educator and researcher with additional training in public health [injury prevention & control], surgical critical care, minimally invasive and trauma surgery. He is currently the
1) Injury Prevention Director, HMC Injury Prevention program [HIPP]
2) AED of Clinical Services, Trauma Surgery Section, Department of Surgery, and
3) Administrative Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Trauma Systems Development, Hamad Trauma Center, Hamad General Hospital.
He is a graduate of the College of Medicine and the General Surgery Program of the University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines. He completed the Fellowship Program in Trauma & Surgical Critical Care at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Master of Public Health program, with an additional Certificate in Injury Prevention and Control, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
He has more than two decades of experience in research, capacity building, policy formulation, program implementation and evaluation for injury prevention and trauma systems development in Qatar, the US, the Philippines and the Asia-Pacific. His academic and research interests include public health education and injury prevention (road, worker and child safety) in low and middle-income countries, immigrant and migrant worker health, trauma systems and outcomes, trauma risk factor analysis (alcohol and drug use), surgical critical care education, surgical nutrition, surgical infection control, and trauma recidivism.
He is a certified Child Passenger Safety Technician and Instructor and an ATLS Instructor.
