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Elinore Kaufman

Elinore Kaufman

Elinore Kaufman

MD, MSHP
Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania

Elinore Kaufman is an active scholar in the T-GAPP program. She graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed a general surgery residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and a fellowship in surgical critical care and trauma at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She also holds a master's degree in health policy research from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kaufman's research focuses on reducing the harmful impacts of traumatic injuries on individuals and communities. She studies both injury prevention and the role of clinical care in patients' physical and psychosocial recovery from injury. She has used quantitative, qualitative, and geospatial methods to evaluate the impact of public policy on injury and injury-related mortality and to study the quality and outcomes of care for traumatic injuries.