Sharven Taghavi MD, MPH, MS, FACS, FCCP

Dr. Sharven Taghavi is the Division Chief of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care at Tulane University School of Medicine. He is a trauma surgeon and surgical critical care specialist who provides Level I trauma care at University Medical Center–New Orleans and acute care surgery and critical care at East Jefferson General Hospital. He is double board-certified in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.

Dr. Taghavi received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and earned his Medical Degree and Master of Public Health from Tufts University School of Medicine. He completed his general surgery residency at Temple University School of Medicine, where he served as Administrative Chief Resident. During residency, he completed a two-year research fellowship at the Temple University Cardiovascular Research Center, investigating mesenchymal stem cell therapy and ventilatory strategies in hemorrhagic shock. His research was supported by a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the NIH. He subsequently completed a fellowship in Surgical Critical Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Taghavi is a faculty member of the Tulane Violence Prevention Institute and serves as Principal Investigator on a CDC-funded R01 evaluating a hospital-based violent injury prevention program for trauma patients. He has led multiple multicenter clinical trials and authored an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) Practice Management Guideline. In addition, he is a co-investigator on an NIH/NIGMS-funded R01 examining the role of succinate in traumatic endotheliopathy.

He has presented his work at numerous national conferences and published peer-reviewed manuscripts, review articles, and textbook chapters. His research interests include violent injury prevention, prehospital care of severely injured patients, vascular and inflammatory responses after hemorrhagic shock, and mechanisms of trauma-associated acute lung injury. He was selected for the Tulane School of Medicine Physician–Scientist Pipeline Program, received the EAST Trauma Research Scholarship, and was awarded the 2022 Early Career/Emerging Faculty Recognition Award at Tulane. He has been recognized multiple times as a “Top Doctor” in New Orleans, and in 2023 was named a Healthcare Hero by New Orleans CityBusiness.

Dr. Taghavi is an active member of the American College of Surgeons, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and the Society of University Surgeons.

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