Steven Ross, MD
Dr. Steven E. Ross is the Chief of the Department of Surgery and the Head of the Division of Trauma at Cooper University Hospital, as well as Director of the General Surgical Residency. He also is Professor of Surgery at UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson School-Camden, New Jersey. Dr. Ross received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology with High Honors in 1972, from the University of Delaware, and received Phi Beta Kappa recognition. In 1976, he received his MD from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Ross completed his General Surgical Residency at York Hospital in York, Pennsylvania in 1981 and a fellowship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. He is Board Certified in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. He is active in the education of medical students and residents in Emergency Medicine and General Surgery and has been recognized with election to Alpha Omega Alpha as a faculty member. His clinical and research interests include trauma systems, pre-hospital trauma care, emergency resuscitation, operative intervention, and intensive care management, and rehabilitation. He has over 100 refereed publications and numerous book chapters in these fields. His work in trauma systems development and care of the injured has been recognized by the New Jersey Brain Injury Association, the B’Nai Brith Foundation, the Camden Police Department, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He has served on New Jersey State Trauma Center Council and currently serves on the Governors Medical Disaster Planning “MEDPREP” Committee. He is also a member of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, the national organization setting standards and guidelines for trauma care.

Dr. Ross sees critically injured patients in Cooper’s Level I Trauma Center.