UF Health Jacksonville
Firas Madbak, MD, FACS, FCCM is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery and Chief of Acute Care Surgery at the University of Florida in Jacksonville. Born in Palestine, he attended the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and completed his general surgery residency at the Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He went on to complete a trauma/surgical critical care fellowship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (currently Rutgers) in Newark, New Jersey.
His areas of clinical and research interest include early tracheostomy and tracheostomy weaning, ventilator weaning and complications, extracorporeal life-support, abdominal wall reconstruction, minimally invasive hernia repair, laparoscopy in trauma as well as global surgery. He has participated in multiple international humanitarian surgical missions in underserved countries.
He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery as well as Surgical Critical Care. He previously served as the surgical intensive care unit medical director at as well as the Program Director for the surgical critical care fellowship. He is a member of multiple surgical societies including the American College of Surgeons, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Society of American Gastrointesinal and Endoscopic Surgeons and the Association of Academic Surgeons. His passion lies in surgical education and in nurturing the professional development and growth of aspiring young surgeons. He has authored or co-authored 30+ publications and 5 books as well as 10+ book chapters. He is also a certified ATLS course director and an ATOM, ASSET and FCCS instructor.