Rachel Choron, MD,FACS

Rachel L. Choron, MD, FACS, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Acute Care Surgery Division of the Department of Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Her clinical areas of expertise are trauma surgery, emergency general surgery, and critical care. She obtained her medical degree at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA, completed general surgery residency at Cooper University Hospital of Rowan University in Camden, NJ, and fellowships in surgical critical care and acute care surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. She is double board certified in general surgery and surgical critical care.

Dr. Choron is the Director of Research for the Division of Acute Care Surgery. She has developed a research network across the Rutgers Health system and mentors and sponsors medical students and residents in surgical research. Her research focuses on advancing management and outcomes of injured and critically ill patients, injury prevention, duodenal injuries, epidemiology of gun violence, COVID-19, and progressing surgical education.

She contributes locally as the Director of Emergency General Surgery Performance Improvement and serves on the Hospital Survival Committee. She contributes nationally as a member of the American College of Surgeons, Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), and American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST). She previously served on the EAST multicenter trials committee and now serves on the EAST manuscript and literature review committee and as an EAST mentor. She also serves as the Vice Chair of the associate members communication committee for the AAST as well as a member of the surgical section’s education committee for SCCM. She also serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several surgical and critical care journals.

She is particularly dedicated to surgical education, both clinically and academically. She has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as the co-director of the Anesthesia Residency Surgical ICU rotation. She is dedicated to fellow education and serves on the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program Evaluation Committee. Additionally, she serves as a preceptor for biomedical engineering undergraduate students interested in medicine and as a preceptor for the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Valentine-Mott Surgical Interest Group.

Philosophy of Care:

Dr. Choron is a wife and mom of two. She is driven to provide excellent, equitable, and humanistic care to her patients and their families while educating the next generation of surgeons and critical care providers.