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Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery
UT Health San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Ronald M. Stewart completed medical school and surgical residency at the Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and a Trauma & Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the Univ. of Tennessee, Memphis. In 1993, he returned to lead the University Health trauma program. He currently serves as the Chair of the Department of Surgery.
He and the STRAC team developed an integrated civilian-military trauma system that serves all of South Texas.
In 2001 he was appointed to the Texas Governors EMS & Trauma Advisory Council where he served for 15 years as the Chair of the Trauma Systems Committee. He was a founding member and first Chair of the National Trauma Institute. For the past 26 years he has served on the American College of Surgeons Committees on Trauma serving at the state, regional and national levels. He is the past Chair of the ACS COT from 3/2014 to 3/2018, and is currently the ACS Medical Director of Trauma Programs.
In 2013 Dr. Stewart was the recipient of the National Safety Council’s Surgeons Award for Service to Safety & the ACS's Arthur Ellenberger Award for Excellence in State Advocacy. He is a past President of the Southwestern Surgical Congress, the Texas Surgical Society and the ACS South Texas Chapter.
He and the COT have spearheaded a plan to implement a National Trauma Action Plan aimed at eliminating preventable trauma and disability. He and the COT have worked to lead an approach to firearm injury prevention that has encouraged a collegial, professional and substantive dialogue from surgeons and lay stakeholders from all points of view with the goal of reducing the burden of firearm injury and death.