Elinore Juliana Kaufman, MD, MSHP
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Trauma Surgery, General Surgery
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery University City
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Medical Director, Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program
  • Director of Research, Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care, and Emergency Surgery
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Presbyterian Medical Center of Philadelphia

Education and training

  • Medical School: Harvard Medical School
  • Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery University City

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
Dr. Kaufman is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Kaufman EJ, Hoskins K, Lee A, Maguire J, Adams L, Betsill T, Anthony B, Vespico Jackson S, Yan R, Lopez A, Kaur K, Spencer E, Souder J, Ahya V, Delgado MK The development of a scalable hospital-based firearm safety program , NEJM Catalyst: 2025, in press


Meredyth N, Song J, Hatchimonji J, Haddad D, Cannon J, Wathen C, Howard S, Schuster J, Kaufman EJ Brain and body: Early decision-making and outcomes for multiply injured patients with penetrating brain injury , Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery: 2025, in press


Wamakima A, Roberts LE, Wanders S, Morrison CN, Kaufman EJ, Cook M, Beard JH. Association Between Police Funding and Community Firearm Violence Incidence in 61 US Cities, 2015-2022. , Public Health, 246: 2025,105841


Kern JA, Reese J, Haddad DN, Hatchimonji J, Dawson E, Seamon M, Kaufman EJ Predictors of return to work after traumatic injury: Associations of employment wiht long-term patient-reported outcomes , Surgery, 185: 2025


Graham G, Wilson C, Hoskins K, Delgado MK, Vespico Jackson S, Lee A, Agarwal A, Kaufman EJ Firearm Owners' Preferences for Secure Storage Devices: Insights From Product Reviews , Journal of Surgical Research: 2025,372-379


Kaufman EJ, Passman JE, Alur R, Smith R, Osborn A, Scarlet S, Sue K, Wright R, Maine R, Smith N, Holston N, Zhu E, Beard JH. Providing Equitable Surgical Care to Patients in Law Enforcement Custody: A Review. , JAMA Surg, 160(7): 2025,814-821


Kaufman EJ, Jung HS, Teichman A, Colosimo C, Brewer JM, Perea LL, Dultz L, Dvorak J, Lu N, Weston R, Kartiko S, Qiu KM, Rakhit S, Murphy P. The Effect of Ridesharing Services on Motor Vehicle Crash Outcomes: A systematic review and practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. , J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 99(1): 2025,135-142


Chen AT, Haddad DN, Eisinger E, Delgado MK, Kern J, Knowlton LM, Lile D, Morgan AU, Ramadan OI, Kaufman EJ Access To Surgical Care After Newly Acquired Insurance Enrollment. , Ann Surg: 2025,in press


Ratnasekera AM, Rattan R, Seng SS, Butler C, Goldenberg-Saundau A, Lu N, Abdel Aziz H, Appelbaum RD, Mashbari H, Hafiz S, Chowdhury S, Soe-Lin H, Reynolds JM, Teichman AL, Kartiko S, Kaufman EJ, Murphy P, Kodadek L. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Efficacy of Helmet Use and Helmet Laws to Reduce Mortality and Cervical Spine Injury in Adult Motorcycle Riders: A Practice Management Guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. , J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 99(4): 2025,650-663


Rosenthal JW, Brown D, Rosen C, Roberts SE, Keele LJ, Wirtalla C, Kaufman EJ, Kelz RR. The Conditional Effect of Serious Mental Illness on Emergency General Surgery Outcomes: an Instrumental Variable Analysis , The American Journal of Surgery: 2025