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

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

My research

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


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


Acker RC, Ginzberg SP, Sharpe J, Keele L, Hwang J, Bakillah E, Goldberg D, Kaufman EJ, Kelz RR. Operative vs Nonoperative Treatment of Acute Cholecystitis in Older Adults With Multimorbidity , JAMA Surgery, 160(6): 2025,656-664


Kern J, Kaufman E Firearm Injury: Pushing Forward , Current Opinion in Critical Care, 31(3): 2025,244-251


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: 2025


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


Giraldi DM, Swingler S, Kirk DS, Kaufman EJ, Melendez-Torres GJ, Humphreys DK Understanding the broader impacts of firearm violence trauma in the United States: A scoping review , Lancet Regional Health, 19(46): 2025,101091


Delgado MK, Hoskins K, Maguire J, Lee A, Yan R, Betsill T, Anthony B, Souder J, Ahya V, Kaufman EJ. Pilot Randomized Trial of Digital, Low-Barrier Access to Choice of Firearm Storage Devices. , Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research: 2025


Kaufman EJ, Prentice C, Williams D, Song J, Haddad DN, Brown JB, Chen X, Colling K, Chatterjee P. Geography of the Underserved: The Contribution of Rural Non-Trauma Hospitals to Trauma Care , Ann Surg, 281(4): 2025,533-539