General Surgery Intern · Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas
Dr. Reid is a first-year general surgery resident at Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC) in Dallas, Texas, with a significant portion of his clinical training at John Peter Smith Hospital (JPS) in Fort Worth. A native of Lakewood, California, he completed his bachelor’s degree in biophysics and master’s in biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California before earning his MD and Master of Engineering through the Texas A&M EnMed program — an accelerated curriculum that integrates clinical training with engineering design and medical device development.
Prior to residency, Dr. Reid contributed to several medical-device and research ventures. At USC’s Brain-Body Dynamics Lab, he studied neuromuscular motor control and tendon-driven robotics, work he later extended through his involvement with Neuromuscular Dynamics. He supported early device development at Prana Surgical, focused on minimally invasive lung biopsy technology, and partnered with Los Angeles County Hospital to build a quality-management tool for tracking surgical site infections. His thesis work on a low-resource surgical kit was presented at NASA’s Human Research Program annual meeting and informed the founding of Austere Surgical, LLC, where he currently serves as interim CEO while the technology is advanced toward applications in disaster relief, military medicine, and global surgery.
His research focuses on surgical medical device design and disaster-relief medicine — specifically, how engineering systems can extend high-quality surgical care to austere, remote, and resource-constrained environments. His long-term goal is to build a career that pairs rigorous clinical practice with the engineering work required to deliver modern surgery well beyond the walls of the tertiary medical center.
Outside of the hospital, Koby is a committed backpacker, car camper, and saltwater fisherman, and is slowly working his way through the US National Parks. At home in Dallas–Fort Worth he enjoys grilling over open flame and the occasional round of frisbee golf.