6/6/17, 10:59 AMVictor F. Garcia, MD, FACS, FAAP

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Victor F. Garcia, MD, FACS, FAAPFounding Director, Trauma Services

Academic AffiliationsProfessor, UC Department of Surgery

Phone 513-636-4371Fax 513-636-7657Email victor.garcia@cchmc.org

Pediatric injury research and control; chest-wall deformities; minimally invasive surgery (use of the laparoscope andthoracoscope to diagnose and treat surgical diseases); surgical weight loss; minority health care

Victor Garcia, MD, graduated from West Point, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, studied pediatric surgeryunder C. Everett Koop, and was Walter Reed’s chief of General/Pediatric Surgery.

Vic founded Children’s Trauma Center and led the effort to establish the country’s first Pediatric Weight Loss Surgery Center.

For his ongoing work to eliminate childhood health and social disparities, he has received numerous awards andcommendations to include the Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award and the National Jefferson Award.

Vic has an uncompromising belief in the power of systems thinking and stakeholder engagement to solve society’s mostintractable problems.

BS: Engineering, United States Military Academy, 1964-1968.

MD: University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 1974.

Residency: Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, 1978.

Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

Certification: Surgery, 1979; Pediatric Surgery, 1982; Surgical Critical Care, 1991.

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Chatoorgoon K, Brown RL, Garcia VF, Falcone, RA. Role of Computed Tomography and Clinical Findings in PediatricBlunt Intestinal Injury. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2012;28 (12): 1338-1342.

Beaudin M, Daugherty M, Geis G, Moody S, Brown RL, Garcia VF, Falcone RA. Assessment of Factors Associated withthe Delayed Transfer of Pediatric Trauma Patients. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2012;28 (8): 758-63.

Goldberg J, McClaine RJ, Cook B, Garcia VF, Brown RL, Crone K, Falcone RA. Use of a mild traumatic brain injuryguideline to reduce inpatient hospital imaging and charges. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2011;46: 1777-1783.

McClaine RJ, Garcia VF. Unnatural Causes: Social Determinants of Child Health and Well-being. The Pediatric Forum,American Medical Association. 2011;165 (5): 476.

Chatoorgoon K, Huezo K, Rangel E, Francios N, Schweer L, Daugherty M, Koehn M, Richetts C, Brown RL, Garcia VF,Falcone RA. Unnecessary Imaging, Not Hospital Distance, or Transportation Mode Impacts Delays in the Transfer ofInjured Children. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2010;26 (7): 481-486.

Martin CA, Care M, Rangel EL, Brown RL, Garcia VF, Falcone RA. Severity of head computed tomography scan findingsfail to explain racial differences in mortality following child abuse. American Journal of Surgery. 2010;199 (2): 210-215.

Ippisch HM, Inge TH, Daniels SR, Wang B, Khoury PR, Witt SA, Glascock BJ, Garcia VF, Kimball TR. Reversibility ofCardiac Abnormalities in Morbidly Obese Adolescents. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2008;51(14): 1342-1348.

Falcone RA , Martin C, Brown RL, Garcia VF. Despite overall low pediatric head injury mortality, disparities existbetween races. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2008;43(10), 1858-1864.

Falcone RA, Daugherty M, Schweer L, Patterson M, Brown RL, Garcia VF. Multidisciplinary pediatric trauma team trainingusing high-fidelity trauma simulation. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2008;43(6), 1065-1071.

Rangel SJ, Martin CA, Brown RL, Garcia VF, Falcone RA. Alarming trends in the improper use of motor vehicle restraintsin children: implications for public policy and the development of race-based strategies for improving compliance.Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2008;43(1), 200-207.

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