Vice Chairman Message
H. David Reines, MD, FACCS
- Vice Chairman and Program Director of Surgery
- Professor of Surgery at Virginia Commonwealth University
H. David Reines, MD, FACS, FCCS, Clerkship Director in Surgery is the Vice Chair of Surgery and Program Director for the Inova Fairfax Surgical Residency Program. He is the author of over 100 peer reviewed articles on sepsis, infections, trauma, surgical education, and surgical safety, and serves on 3 editorial boards. Dr. Reines came to Inova from Boston, where he had been Chair of Surgery. Prior to that, he was chief of Trauma/ Critical Care at Medical College of Virginia (now VCU) and Medical College of South Carolina. Dr. Reines has dedicated his professional career to academic surgery, subscribing to the theory of Dr. John Davis: Operate on 1,000 patients and you affect 1,000 patients, but teach 30 residents and you will affect 30,000 patients.
Dr. Reines helped create the surgical residency program at Inova Fairfax .When VCU chose Inova Fairfax as its northern campus; Dr. Reines was appointed the surgery clerkship director.
He is a graduate of Cornell University (German History) and the University of Vermont College Of Medicine, where he completed his residency. He was a fellow in Critical Care/Trauma at the University of Miami. He is married to NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent, Nina Totenberg.
