Dr. Rajesh Gandhi is a trauma surgeon and former Trauma Medical Director at JPS Health Network, where he led the hospital’s designation as Tarrant County’s first Level I Trauma Center. During his 17-year tenure, he built a regional trauma referral network extending across North and West Texas and worked closely with EMS agencies to strengthen prehospital-to-hospital integration. He developed Texas’ first Patient Blood Management program, established the county’s only Geriatric Trauma Program, and helped JPS become one of the first Emergency General Surgery Centers of Excellence in the country. Known for advancing culture change within multidisciplinary teams, he focused on aligning surgeons, nurses, and prehospital providers around shared standards of performance and accountability. Now Professor of Medical Education at the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU, Dr. Gandhi teaches leadership, systems-based care, and strategic implementation in healthcare.