Department of Surgery Faculty

Guiding clinical care, research and surgical education

Our faculty are leaders in developing and applying advanced surgical practices and designing surgical education. More than 100 faculty members come from many different backgrounds and represent a wide range of surgical fields.  

Together we: 

  • Participate in professional surgical associations and specialty boards
  • Support a collaborative, inclusive, team-based approach to patient care within and across divisions
  • Apply the latest research and surgical techniques to patient care
  • Lead studies to advance surgical treatments, including through participation in OHSU’s trauma care, surgical decision-making and gastrointestinal oncology research
  • Collaborate with teams across OHSU to treat the state’s and region’s most complicated medical cases 

Meet our faculty

Department leadership

Mark Valadez, M.S. 
Vice Chair, Administration 

Keenan Davis, LP. D., M.S. 
Director, Community Engagement and Education 

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 Vice Chair, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 

Division faculty

Questions? 

Email us at surgdept@ohsu.edu. 

Faculty careers

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A professional headshot of Dr. Mubeen Jafri.

“It’s very rare in a smaller state like Oregon to have the level of specialty care the department offers. Then you add our fellowship program and one of the biggest general surgery residency programs in the country, and that sets up a practice that has been very favorable for most of us.”

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