David Jeffcoach, MD, FACS
Associate Professor
Surgery - Fresno
School of Medicine

Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF Assistant Trauma Medical Director, Community Regional Medical Center

David R. Jeffcoach, MD, FACS, FCS (ECSA), is an Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Fresno regional campus. He also serves as Assistant Trauma Medical Director at Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC).

Dr. Jeffcoach received his medical degree from the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. He completed a general surgery residency at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery at UCSF Fresno. Dr. Jeffcoach is board certified by the American Board of Surgery, with added qualifications in Surgical Critical Care.

From 2019 to 2023, Dr. Jeffcoach served as Chair of Surgery at Soddo Christian Hospital in Ethiopia, where he led numerous initiatives to expand surgical capacity and improve patient care. During his tenure, he helped grow the surgical department, doubled the number of operating rooms, established the hospital's laparoscopic surgery program, and led multidisciplinary efforts to improve operating room efficiency. He also served as Program Director and later Assistant Program Director for the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons' General Surgery Residency Program at Soddo Christian Hospital.

Dr. Jeffcoach has longstanding interests in trauma surgery, acute care surgery, surgical critical care, and global surgery. His research and educational efforts focus on trauma outcomes, resuscitation, laparoscopic training, and expanding access to safe surgical care in resource-limited settings. He continues to provide surgical education throughout sub-Saharan Africa and serves as co-lead of the multinational ALL-SAFE surgical education research collaborative, which develops and delivers laparoscopic training programs for surgeons in low-resource countries.

Dr. Jeffcoach is a Fellow the American College of Surgeons and the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa.

• Generalizability of Artificial Intelligence Assessments in Laparoscopic Surgery Simulation.
  The Journal of surgical research 2025 Kim E, Rosenthal LS, Ryder CY, Anidi C, Bidwell SS, Rooney DM, Yu J, Forczmanski P, Jeffcoach DR, Kim GJ
• A novel tool for assessing psychomotor proficiency in laparoscopic cholecystectomy using simulation-based training.
  Surgical endoscopy 2025 Kim E, Tchinde MJ, Rooney DM, Ngam BN, Rettig RL, Gross CL, Snell MJ, Barnard ML, El-Hayek K, Jeffcoach DR, Kim GJ
• Editorial response: Current status of resident simulation training curricula: pearls and pitfalls.
  Surgical endoscopy 2025 Kim E, Kim GJ, Jeffcoach DR, El-Hayek K
• The efficacy of a low-cost laparoscopic training curriculum for Nigerian surgeons.
  Global Surgical Education - Journal of the Association for Surgical Education 2025 Joy E. Obayemi, A. Peter Ekeh, Erin Kim BS, Rija Awan, Blessing Ngoin Ngam, John Tanyi, Phillip J. Hsu, Christopher W. Reynolds, Serena Bidwell, Chioma Anidi, Kevin El-Hayek, Marcy Zatz, Deborah M. …
• Analysis of implementation science strategies to train laparoscopic surgical skills among Liberian surgeons using ALL-SAFE.
  Surgical endoscopy 2024 Reynolds CW, Cassell A, Mabanza T, Rooney DM, Kollie R, O'Reggio R, Moore-Wilson Y, Ketia A, Lemfuka DA, Jeffcoach D, Kim GJ
• Assessment of laparoscopic surgery practice, knowledge, and training goals in Liberia: A mixed-methods study among Liberian surgeons.
  World journal of surgery 2024 Reynolds CW, Mabanza T, Cassell A, Rooney DM, Moore-Wilson Y, Ketia A, Kollie R, Jeffcoach D, Kim E, Bidwell S, Zatz M, Hider A, Kim GJ
• Adoption Of Laparoscopy After Utilization Of A Low-cost Simulation-based Laparoscopy Training.
  Journal of Global Surgery (ONE) 2024 Blessing Ngam, Deborah Rooney, Erin Kim, Prosper Ngwang, Mark Snell, Christopher Reynolds, Serena Bidwell, Chioma Anidi, Kevin El-Hayek, Melanie Barnard, David Jeffcoach, John Tanyi, Ngueping Tchinde,…
• The current landscape of global international surgical rotations for general surgery residents in the United States: a survey by the Association for Program Directors in Surgery’s (APDS) global surgery taskforce.
  Global Surgical Education - Journal of the Association for Surgical Education 2024 S. Strain, E. Adjei, D. Edelman, L. Fischer, C. Haisch, D. Jeffcoach, J. Kim, D. Kington, J. K. Lee, H. Lindsey, W. Nelson, D. Nepomnayshy, S. Patidar, T. Petitt, M. Rivera, J. Shelton, J. Shim, K. …
• Evidence supporting a virtual case-based module to improve cognitive foundation for the management of laparoscopic appendectomy.
  Global Surgical Education - Journal of the Association for Surgical Education 2024 Christopher W. Reynolds, Deborah M. Rooney, David R. Jeffcoach, Melanie Barnard, Mark J. Snell, Blessing Ngoin Ngam, John Tanyi, Kevin El-Hayek, Serena S. Bidwell, Chioma Anidi, C. Yoonhee Ryder, …
• Using Artificial Intelligence to Gauge Competency on a Novel Laparoscopic Training System.
  Journal of surgical education 2023 Ryder CY, Mott NM, Gross CL, Anidi C, Shigut L, Bidwell SS, Kim E, Zhao Y, Ngam BN, Snell MJ, Yu BJ, Forczmanski P, Rooney DM, Jeffcoach DR, Kim GJ
• Delayed presentation of penetrating cardiac injury successfully managed in resource limited setting: A case report.
  International journal of surgery case reports 2023 Gucho AG, Jeffcoach DR
• Evidence for a case-based module in the low-resource setting to teach ectopic pregnancy management.
  Surgery in practice and science 2023 Hsu IJ, Lenders J, Johnson-Griggs MA, Gist H, Vaishampayan N, Ryder Y, Obayemi J, Hsu PJ, Jeffcoach D, Barnard M, Freneh M, Snell M, Rooney DM, Kim GJ
• Evidence supporting performance measures of laparoscopic appendectomy through a novel surgical proficiency assessment tool and low-cost laparoscopic training system.
  Surgical endoscopy 2023 Reynolds CW, Rooney DM, Jeffcoach DR, Barnard M, Snell MJ, El-Hayek K, Ngam BN, Bidwell SS, Anidi C, Tanyi J, Yoonhee Ryder C, Kim GJ
• Evidence supporting performance measures of laparoscopic salpingostomy using novel low-cost ectopic pregnancy simulator.
  Global Surgical Education - Journal of the Association for Surgical Education 2022 Deborah M. Rooney, Nicole M. Mott, C. Yoonhee Ryder, Mark J. Snell, Blessing N. Ngam, Melanie L. Barnard, David R. Jeffcoach, Grace J. Kim
• Mortality in hypotensive trauma patients requiring laparotomy is related to degree of hypotension and provides evidence for focused interventions.
  Trauma surgery & acute care open 2021 Davis JW, Dirks RC, Jeffcoach DR, Kaups KL, Sue LP, Lilienstein JT, Wolfe MM, Kwok AM
• Quetiapine for delirium prophylaxis in high-risk critically ill patients.
  The surgeon : journal of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Ireland 2020 Abraham MP, Hinds M, Tayidi I, Jeffcoach DR, Corder JM, Hamilton LA, Lawson CM, Bollig RW, Heidel RE, Daley BJ, Taylor JE, McMillen JC
• The impact of obesity on severity of solid organ injury in the adult population at a Level I trauma center.
  Trauma surgery & acute care open 2019 Chen AK, Jeffcoach D, Stivers JC, McCullough KA, Dirks RC, Boehnke RJ, Sue L, Kwok AM, Wolfe MM, Davis JW
• A predictive grading scale for acute cholecystitis.
  Trauma surgery & acute care open 2019 Siada S, Jeffcoach D, Dirks RC, Wolfe MM, Kwok AM, Sue LP, Davis JW
• Use of CPR in hemorrhagic shock, a dog model.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2016 Jeffcoach DR, Gallegos JJ, Jesty SA, Coan PN, Chen J, Heidel RE, Daley BJ
• Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs' impact on nonunion and infection rates in long-bone fractures.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2014 Jeffcoach DR, Sams VG, Lawson CM, Enderson BL, Smith ST, Kline H, Barlow PB, Wylie DR, Krumenacker LA, McMillen JC, Pyda J, Daley BJ, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Department of Surgery
• Massive Transfusion in the Elderly Trauma Patient: Should it be Done?.
  Journal of Surgical Research 2014 D.R. Jeffcoach, J.J. Gallegos, S.S. Gandhi, S. Daley, P.B. Barlow, R. Bollig, B.J. Daley
• Non Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Medications Impact On Non-Union and Infection Rates in Long Bone Fractures.
  Journal of Surgical Research 2013 D.R. Jeffcoach, V.G. Sams, C.M. Lawson, B.L. Enderson, S.T. Smith, H. Kline, P.B. Barlow, D.R. Wylie, L.A. Krumenacker, J.C. McMillen, J. Pyda, B.J. Daley