Professor Ruben Peralta is the Deputy Trauma Medical Director, Senior Consultant and Director of the Trauma Critical Care Fellowship Program. He graduated from the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña in Santo Domingo, DR, with Honors. He trained at Harvard Medical Schoolâs Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Critical Care Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Critical Care Medicine, and the American College of Chest Physicians.
Dr. Peralta has authored or coauthored over 360 publications, abstracts, and book chapters. As an Academic, Surgeon Educator and scientist, he has been awarded more than US$ 2 Million in competitive research grants in Qatar alone and has led the Trauma, Emergency and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program advanced medical education and training program at HMC. He is a member of prestigious medical and surgical scientific societies.
Dr. Peraltaâs more recent academic and humanitarian awards includes Induction to the inaugural class of the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators, American College of Surgeons in 2018, for his outstanding contributions and internationally recognized leadership in the innovation and advancement of the Surgical Science and Education. The prestigious 2021 International Harald Tscherne Teaching Award at the European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery. The 2022 Oscar de la Renta Dominican Emigrant Award, for his lifetime altruism and humanistic work in benefits of the citizen of the Dominican Republic. In 2022 was recognized as an Honorary Fellow of the Dominican College of Surgeons. The Best Teacher Award, Medical Education at HMC. Induction to the AAST Leadership Academy of The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, 2023. The 2024 Premio Gran Gladiator, PGE, Madrid.
He is the Distinguished Professor of surgery, anesthesia, emergency, critical care medicine & global health.