Joseph Victor Sakran, MD, MPH, MPA

• Vice Chair and director, Clinical Operations
• Director, Emergency General Surgery
• Associate Chief, Division of Acute Care Surgery

Joseph V. Sakran, MD, MPH, MPA, FACS is Executive Vice Chair of Surgery and Director of Clinical Operations at Johns Hopkins Medicine, a trauma surgeon, public health leader, and member of the National Academy of Medicine. He is internationally recognized for translating clinical evidence into public policy, systems innovation, and large-scale social change.

A survivor of gun violence, Dr. Sakran has become one of the nation's leading physician

advocates for firearm injury prevention. His work has helped elevate firearm injury as a

public health issue and contributed to national policy efforts, including the Bipartisan

Safer Communities Act. He currently serves as Board Chair and Chief Medical Officer of

Brady United Against Gun Violence and chairs the Advocacy and Health Policy Program

Area of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.

Beyond firearm injury prevention, Dr. Sakran's work focuses on redesigning healthcare

systems to prevent disease before it occurs. He is a senior co-investigator on a national

clinical trial evaluating opportunistic salpingectomy in general surgery and helps lead

OutSmart Ovarian Cancer, a multidisciplinary initiative working to make ovarian cancer

prevention a routine component of surgical care through clinical research, physician

education, health policy, and public engagement.

His academic work spans trauma surgery, emergency general surgery, health policy,

artificial intelligence, implementation science, and healthcare delivery. He has authored

more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and has been recognized with numerous

national honors, including election to the National Academy of Medicine, the Johns

Hopkins President's Frontier Award, the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship,

and designation as a Presidential Leadership Scholar.

Dr. Sakran earned his medical degree from the Medical School for International Health at

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in collaboration with Columbia University, a Master

of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Master in

Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, and is completing his MBA at

the NYU Stern School of Business.

He is a sought-after keynote speaker whose work explores the intersection of medicine,

leadership, public policy, technology, and the systems required to build healthier, more

resilient communities.

To support Dr. Sakran's research, visit: https://secure.jhu.edu/form/Sakran

• US gun violence: School shooting victim becomes surgeon to save others, Australian Broadcasting Corporation,(05/01/2016)

• Kent AJ, Sakran JV, Efron DT, Haider AH, Cornwell EE 3rd, Haut ER.  Understanding Increased Mortality after Gunshot Injury.  Am J Public Health.  2017 Dec; 107(12):e22-e23.  

• Matar MM, Jewett B, Fakhry S, Wilson DA, Ferguson P, Anton R, Sakran JV.  Identifying chronic heavy alcohol use in emergency general surgery patients: a pilot study.  Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2017 Sep; 2(1):1-5.  

• Mehta A, Dultz LA, Joseph B, Canner JK, Stevens K, Jones C, Haut ER, Efron DT, Sakran JV.  Emergency General Surgery in Geriatric Patients: A Statewide Analysis of Surgeon and Hospital Volume with Outcomes.  J Trauma Acute Care Surg.  2018 Jan 31 [Epub ahead of print].

• Mehta A, Efron D, Stevens K, Manukyan MC, Joseph B, Sakran JV.  Hospital Variation in Mortality after Emergency Bowel Resections: The Role of Failure-to-Rescue.  J Trauma Acute Care Surg.  2018 Feb 3 [Epub ahead of print].

• Sakran JV, Mehta A, Fransman R, Nathens AB, Joseph B, Kent A, Haut ER, Efron DT.  Nationwide Trends in Mortality Following Penetrating Trauma: Are We Up for the Challenge?  J Trauma Acute Care Surg.  2018 Apr 3 [Epub ahead of print].

• Elected, Alpha Omega Alpha, 1/1/16
• Future Trauma Leaders Program - American College of Surgeons, 1/1/15
• American College of Surgeons - Surgical Humanitarian and Volunteerism Award, 1/1/14
• Fellow Leadership Award - American College of Surgeons, 1/1/14
• Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) - Leadership Development Scholarship, 1/1/13
• Surgical Training Awareness and Residency (STAR) Award - Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, 1/1/13
• Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) - Oriens Award, 1/1/11
• Top Resident Teacher Award - Virginia Commonwealth University, 1/1/10

• Fellow, American College of Surgeons
• Member, Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Member, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
• Member, Association for Academic Surgery
• Member, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
• American College of Surgeons (FACS),

  Fellow

• Advisory Council for General Surgery, RAS Liaison, 1/1/11 - 1/1/14
• Advocacy committee, Committee on Trauma, Member, 1/1/16
• American College of Surgeons (ACS), Fellow, 1/1/05
• Committee on Trauma-Weber Shandwick Initiative, Steering Committee Member, 1/1/15
• Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Member, 1/1/16
• Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Member, Careers Committee, 1/1/12 - 1/1/15
• Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Presidential Appointment, Strategic Initiative Task Force, 1/1/13 - 1/1/16
• Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Presidential Appointment, Social Media Task Force, 1/1/15 - 1/1/16
• Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Member, Annual Scientific Assembly Section, 1/1/15
• Inova Fairfax Hospital Surgical Residency Program, RAS-Liaison, 1/1/05 - 1/1/10
• International Sub-committee, Operation Giving Back, Member and Vice-Chair, 1/1/16
• Performance Improvement committee, Committee on Trauma, Member, 1/1/16
• RAS, Executive Committee Member, 1/1/11 - 1/1/16
• RAS-ACS, Elected Secretary, 1/1/12 - 1/1/13
• RAS-ACS, Vice Chair, 1/1/13 - 1/1/14
• RAS-ACS, Chair, 1/1/14 - 1/1/15
• Young Fellows Association Governing Council, Ex-officio RAS-ACS, 1/1/15 - 1/1/16
• Young Fellows Association Governing Council, Member, 1/1/16