Babak Sarani is a Professor of Surgery and Emergency Medicine and the Chief of Trauma Surgery at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He graduated from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in 1997. He then completed his training in General Surgery at GW in 2004. Following this, he completed fellowship training in Trauma and Critical Care Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. He began his career as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Critical Care Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. He was recruited back to GW in 2011 where he is the Founder and Director of the Center for Trauma and Critical Care at The George Washington University Hospital. He established a level 2 trauma center in Arlington, Virginia in 2020 and is now leading the effort to establish a level 3 trauma center in Anacostia, Washington, DC. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the American Trauma Society and the Surgical Critical Care Program Director’s Society, past Chair of the Brady United Against Gun Violence Regional Leadership Council for Washington, DC, and past President of the Chest Wall Injury Society. He serves on the Central Committee on Trauma for the American College of Surgeons. In addition to his clinical duties, Dr. Sarani is an active researcher with over 200 publications dedicated to mitigating risk of death following injury.