Mayur Narayan, MD, MPH, MBA, MHPE, FACS, FCCM, FICS, FACT, FAIM, FSIS, FASE, MAMSE

Dr. Mayur Narayan is professor of Surgery and chief of the Division of Acute Care Surgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, where he also serves as Trauma Medical Director and program director of the Acute Care Surgery Fellowship. A graduate of the Eastern Virginia Medical School BS/MD program, he completed fellowship training in Surgical Critical Care and Traumatology at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland, and holds three master’s degrees—a master's degree in public health and master's in business administration from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Health Professions Education from Harvard University/MGH Institute of Health Professions. His career is defined by a sustained commitment to advancing trauma care delivery, surgical education, and global health.

Dr. Narayan is the President-Elect of the International College of Surgeons (2026–2027), elected to lead a global surgical society spanning more than 100 countries, and Past President of the American College of Academic International Medicine. Over a 17-year collaboration with India, he has helped train more than 50,000 police officers, first responders, students, and physicians in lifesaving trauma care; introduced the ACS Stop the Bleed program to India and Hong Kong; and served as ATLS Course Director across India. As a Board Director of the SaveLIFE Foundation, he played a pivotal role in constitutionalizing India’s Good Samaritan Law and now has successfully establish a “Right to Trauma Care” guaranteeing emergency treatment to 1.8 Billion people. As Editor and Program Chair of the ACS Trauma Evaluation and Management (TEAM) course, 4th Edition, he has launched the program in India, Pakistan, Italy, Brazil, and Dominican Republic, with additional countries forthcoming.

Nationally, Dr. Narayan serves on the American College of Surgeons AI Committee under the Board of Regents and was appointed to the National Committee on Trauma. He is President of the Surgical Critical Care Program Directors Society (2025–2026) and Councilor-at-Large of the Society of University Surgeons (2026–2029). A full Member of the ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators (MAMSE), he was named the 2025 Global Educator of the Year for ATLS. He was recently inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Surgical Education (FASE)—one of four surgeons nationwide so honored—and as a Fellow of the Surgical Infection Society (FSIS), where he also serves as Councilor-at-Large and received a Presidential Citation for exemplary service.

Dr. Narayan has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and 17 textbook chapters and delivered more than 400 presentations worldwide, with work appearing in The Lancet, JAMA Surgery, the British Journal of Surgery, and the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, among other high-impact journals. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Surgical Research, Surgery, and as Associate Editor of Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open. As Executive Director of the Rutgers Acute Care Surgery Research Lab—which unites the adult and pediatric trauma programs—he leads a multi-investigator team that has collectively secured more than $7 million in research funding. His own work as Principal Investigator is federally funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), with additional support from foundation and industry sponsors.

He established the first RWJ Global Surgery Fellowship, having previously directed the Skills Acquisition and Innovation Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine. He has mentored more than 80 surgical critical care fellows, 200 medical students, and numerous junior faculty members globally, and was recently honored with the 2026 Dean’s Mentorship Award at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Dr. Narayan maintains an active clinical practice in trauma surgery, emergency general surgery, and surgical critical care, directing the Level I Trauma Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.