Dr. Rajesh R. Gandhi is a trauma surgeon, educator, and healthcare systems leader who now advises academic medical centers and healthcare organizations on leadership development, physician recruitment, and program building. He retired from clinical practice in 2024 after serving for 17 years as Trauma Medical Director at JPS Health Network, where he led the hospital’s designation as Tarrant County’s first Level I Trauma Center. Dr. Gandhi brings extensive experience in graduate medical education, multidisciplinary program development, and faculty recruitment. His work focuses on identifying and developing leaders who can advance institutional missions in clinical care, education, and organizational performance.
Representative Leadership and Recruitment Experience
Experience and Honors
Dr. Gandhi served as Trauma Medical Director at JPS Health Network from 2007 to 2024, where he led the hospital’s designation as the first Level I Trauma Center in Tarrant County. His leadership focused on building high-performing multidisciplinary teams and advancing a culture of accountability, quality improvement, and patient safety within a large county hospital system. During his tenure, he developed the county’s only Geriatric Trauma Program and established Texas’ first Patient Blood Management program. He also implemented system-wide safety initiatives, created a preoperative optimization clinic for high-risk surgical patients, and helped establish one of the first Emergency General Surgery Centers of Excellence programs in the country.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Gandhi served as Trauma Medical Director in Waco, Texas, where he strengthened trauma services and aligned surgeons, hospital leadership, and clinical teams around shared standards of excellence and performance improvement. Throughout his career, he has been deeply engaged in graduate medical education, mentoring medical students, general surgery residents, surgical critical care fellows, emergency medicine residents, and other healthcare trainees. He has served as a trauma center surveyor for the Texas Emergency Trauma and Acute Care Foundation since 2009 and for the American College of Surgeons from 2011 to 2025. Dr. Gandhi currently serves as Professor of Medical Education at the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU, where he focuses on executive coaching, physician leadership development, and faculty mentoring. He also serves on several nonprofit boards supporting community health and education initiatives.
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