Prof. Ruben Peralta, MD, FACS, FCCM, FCCP, MAMSE
Deputy Trauma Medical Director
Professor & Director Trauma, Emergency and Surgery Critical Care Fellowship Program
Senior Consultant - Surgery, Trauma, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine
Chair of HMC Surgery Corporate Quality & Patient Safety Program
Associate Director of Trauma Intensive Care Unit
Hamad General Hospital & Hamad Medical Corporation
Academy of Master Surgeon Educators, American College of Surgeons
Co-Founder Casa Rubén Foundation
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ruben-Peralta-4
Professor Ruben Peralta is the Deputy Trauma Medical Director, Senior Consultant, and the Director of the
HMC Trauma and Critical Care Fellowship Program. He graduated from the Universidad Nacional Pedro
Henriquez Ureña (UNPHU) in Santo Domingo, DR, with Honors. He trained at Harvard Medical School's
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is certified by the American Board of
Surgery and the American Board of Critical Care Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of
Surgeons, the American College of Critical Care Medicine, and the American College of Chest Physicians.
He is a member of several prestigious medical and surgical scientific societies.
Dr. Peralta has authored or coauthored over 360 publications, abstracts, and book chapters. As an Academic
Surgeon, Dr. Peralta has been awarded more than US$ 2 Million in competitive research grants in Qatar
alone. As an educator, he has led the Trauma, Emergency and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program, an
advanced medical education and training program of more than 57 physicians in trauma surgery, emergency,
and critical care medicine in the Middle East.
In 2018, Dr. Peralta was inducted into the inaugural class of the prestigious Academy of Master Surgeon
Educators, of the American College of Surgeons for his outstanding contributions and internationally
recognized leadership in the innovation and advancement of the Surgical Science and Education. He was
awarded the prestigious 2021 International Harald Tscherne Teaching Award during the 2021 European
Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery annual conference. In 2022, Dr. Peralta was recognized as an
Honorary Fellow of the Dominican College of Surgeons of the Dominican Republic and same year, Dr.
Peralta was the winner of the Mr. Oscar de la Renta Dominican Emigrant National Award of the Dominican
Republic for his lifetime altruism and humanistic work in benefits of the citizen of the Dominican Republic.
In 2022, Dr. Peralta was awarded the Best Teacher Award, of the Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha,
Qatar. In 2023, He was inducted to the Leadership Academy of The American Association for the Surgery of
Trauma (AAST) of the United States. He is a professor of surgery, anesthesia, emergency medicine, critical
care medicine & global health.
