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Dr. Benjamin Gayed is an experienced Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon and Surgical Intensivist with a special interest in healthcare entrepreneurship.His current clinical role is as a general surgeon with Witham Health Services, serving the population of Boone County, Indiana.Benjamin is also interested in healthcare entrepreneurial opportunities, and he is currently in the process of founding a new healthcare staffing agency, Acute Care Surgery Locums. This company has a narrow focus on Acute Care Surgery and General Surgery locum tenens services. Through this business, he hopes introduce staffing incentives that will foster higher quality of care and better surgeon engagement in clinical roles within the acute care inpatient side of the US healthcare ecosystem.Prior to his current roles, he spent 5+ years serving as an acute care and trauma surgeon in Grand Rapids, Michigan with Corewell Health. Alongside his clinical service there, he helped to lead the growth of the Geriatric Trauma Program for that system. He has studied business process improvement and published research applying Lean Six Sigma methodologies to healthcare settings. His work in this area demonstrates that the US healthcare system can be restructured to provide high quality care with lower costs by reducing abundant waste in the system.Dr. Gayed graduated from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed his surgical training at Indiana University School of Medicine where he also spent time in process improvement research and won several teaching awards.Married, father of 4.Enneagram 9.

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