Dr. Joseph Ibrahim, MD, FACS, is board certified in both General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. Dr. Ibrahim received his medical degree from the James H. Quillen College of Medicine of East Tennessee State University in 2003. He was Vice President of his class and was awarded the Arnold P. Gold Humanism in Medicine Award. Dr. Ibrahim completed post-graduate residency training in general surgery at East Tennessee State University and was recognized with the Outstanding Surgical Resident Award.
He honed his skills at caring for the most critically ill patients during his Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at Orlando Health. With his residency and fellowship concluded, Dr. Ibrahim stayed at East Tennessee University as Assistant Professor with the Division of Trauma/Critical Care/Acute Care Surgery. He found success in working with surgical residents first as Assistant Professor, then as Interim Vice Chair of the Surgery Department. He also worked as a general surgeon in a private practice, and though his experiences seasoned him as a surgeon, he was glad for the opportunity to be part of graduate medical education again. He joined Orlando Health’s Department of Surgical Education in January 2012 as Associate Program Director of the General Surgery Residency. His passion for laudable patient care was recognized in 2013 with the Orlando Regional Medical Center Physician Exemplar Award. In August 2015, Dr. Ibrahim was appointed as the Medical Director of Trauma at Orlando Health’s Level 1 Trauma Center in Orlando, Florida.
Dr. Ibrahim is interested in many areas of general and trauma surgery including REBOA, endoscopy, hernias, abdominal wall reconstruction, laparoscopy, gallbladder, thyroid, and bowel surgery.
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