Suresh Agarwal

Suresh Agarwal is a Professor of Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine and a core leader of the multi-institutional Surgical Critical Care Initiative (SC2i). With an h-index of 29 and more than 2,700 citations, he has published 148 peer-reviewed works since 1997, focusing on trauma surgery, critical care, and health-services outcomes.

Research Interests:

• Surgical critical care & trauma resuscitation
• Rib-fracture fixation and thoracic wall stabilization
• Vascular trauma repair and long-term functional outcomes
• Nutrition-related mortality after injury
• Healthcare disparities in trauma care

His recent work challenges age-based dogma by demonstrating that younger trauma patients are uniquely vulnerable to malnutrition-related death, while simultaneously proving that early surgical stabilization of rib fractures benefits all age groups. Across more than 20 papers in 2023-2025 he has leveraged large registries such as PROOVIT to dissect risk factors for re-intervention, amputation, and mortality after femoral and abdominal vascular injuries.

Media Impact: Findings have been featured in 210 press items, including coverage of rib-fracture studies that informed national quality guidelines and firearm-injury research cited in policy debates.

Although specific grant funding and trainee lists are not provided, his extensive co-author network and continuous federally supported registry analyses indicate active mentoring and principal-investigator roles within SC2i.