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Editorial Board
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open Editorial Board members have agreed and adhere to the BMJ Editor Roles and Responsibilities guidelines; including our Editor policy on competing interests.
Editor-in-Chief
Elliott R. Haut, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Declaration of Interests: Nothing to Declare
Dr. Haut is Vice Chair of Quality, Safety, and Service in the Department of Surgery at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is a Professor of Surgery with secondary faculty appointments in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) and Emergency Medicine. He also has a faculty appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management at The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has been the Acute Care Surgery Fellowship at Johns Hopkins for over a decade and was a previous Trauma Medical Director at Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital (a level II trauma center).
Dr. Haut has held numerous leadership roles in trauma surgery. He is past-President of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), chaired the EAST Guidelines Committee, and is past-Chair of Maryland TraumaNet. He was the lead author of a paper commissioned by the National Academies of Medicine titled “Military Trauma Care’s Learning Health System: The Importance of Data-Driven Decision Making” which was used to support the report titled “A National Trauma Care System: Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury.” Dr. Haut was a member of the National Quality Forum (NQF) Trauma Outcomes Committee, is on the Board of Directors of the Coalition for National Trauma Research (CNTR), and was appointed to the Maryland Statewide Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council (SEMSAC).
He has been active in the peer-review publishing process. Dr. Haut’s editorial experience includes membership on multiple other editorial boards and has ad-hoc peer-reviewed for over 40 journals. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed articles, as well as dozens of invited editorials, books, and chapters.
Deputy Editors
Deputy Editor for Global Strategy / Outreach
Christine Gaarder, MD, PhD
Oslo University Hospital
Oslo, Norway
@tinagaarder
Area of expertise: Trauma clinical education including simulation, quality assurance, system development, trauma epidemiological and translational research in resuscitation, torso trauma, critical care
orcid.org/0000-0002-9485-1783
Deputy Editor for Global Strategy / Outreach
Ajai Malhotra, MD
UVM Medical Center
Vermont, USA
Deputy Editor for Clinical Content
Matthew J. Martin, MD, FACS, FASMBS, D.ABA
Los Angeles County & USC Medical Center
California, USA
@docmartin22
Area of expertise: Trauma, resuscitation, military trauma, hemorrhage and coagulopathy, emergency general surgery, minimally invasive surgery
orcid.org/0000-0002-9169-9069
Deputy Editor for Communication
Jeffry Nahmias, MD, MHPE, FACS, FCCM
University of California
California, USA
@jnahmias1
Area of expertise: High value care, surgical education, multi-center research
orcid.org/0000 0003 0094 671X
Deputy Editor for Operations
Stephanie A. Savage, MD, MS
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Wisconsin, USA
orcid.org/0000-0001-6634-3098
Associate Editors
Associate Editor of Social Media
Ronald Barbosa, MD, FACS
Legacy Emanuel Medical Center
Oregon, USA
@rbarbosa91
Area of expertise: Education (surgical history and instrumentation)
orcid.org/0000-0003-1358-1628
Associate Editor of History
Andrew Bernard, MD
University of Kentucky
Lexington, USA
@bernardtrauma
Area of expertise: Trauma, critical care, acute care surgery
orcid.org/0000-0001-6026-1286
Associate Editor of Statistical Analysis
James Byrne, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Maryland, USA
@DctrJByrne
Area of expertise: Trauma structures and processes of care, trauma systems, biostatistics, geospatial analysis
orcid.org/0000-0002-3760-8509
Associate Editor of Informatics/Data Science
Rachael A. Callcut, MD, MSPH, FACS
University of California Davis School of Medicine
Sacramento CA
@callcura
Area of expertise: (academic, research, and or education interests): Health Services Research, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Outcomes Research, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Resuscitation/Hemorrhage Biology
orcid.org/0000-0002-1582-6716
Associate Editor of Systematic Reviews / Guidelines
John J. Como, MD, MPH, FACS, FCCM
MetroHealth Medical Center
Ohio, USA
@johnjcomo
Area of expertise: Guidelines and systematic reviews
orcid.org/0000-0002-1116-8357
Associate Editor of Emergency General Surgery
Michael Cripps, MD, MSCS, FACS
University of Colorado Anschuts Medical Center
Colorado, USA
@MichaelCrippsMD
Area of expertise: Emergency General Surgery, inflammation, coagulation disruption in injury and critical illness, simulation, and education
orcid.org/0000-0002-1263-1876</a
Associate Editor for Challenges in Acute Care Surgery
Kimberly Davis, MD, MBA
Yale School of Medicine
Connecticut, USA
@kadtraumamd
Area of expertise: General Surgery, Trauma & Surgical Critical Care
orcid.org/0000-0001-5660-5293
Associate Editor of Vascular Trauma
Joseph J. DuBose, MD, FACS, FCCM, FSVS
Dell School of Medicine, University of Texas
Texas, USA
@Dumbstintheroom
Area of expertise: Vasular injury, trauma
Associate Editor of Military Trauma
Jennifer M. Gurney, MD
US Army Institute of Surgical Research
Texas, USA
Associate Editor
Kenji Inaba, MD, FACS
University of Southern California
California, USA
Areas of expertise: Trauma, critical care, emergency general surgery
Associate Editor of Statistical Analysis
Molly Jarman, PhD, MPH
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts, USA
@MollyJarman
Area of expertise: Trauma systems, prehospital care, geospatial analysis, health policy, injury prevention
orcid.org/0000-0001-7117-5869
Associate Editor of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI)
D'Andrea K. Joseph, MD, FACS, FCCM
NUY Langone Hospital-Long Island/NYU Long Island School of Medicine
New York, USA
@ddeekjos
Area of expertise: Trauma outcomes, injury prevention, IPV, health equity, geriatric trauma
orcid.org/0000-0002-7626-370X
Associate Editor of Editorials
Krista L. Kaups, MD, MSc, FACS, FCS (ECSA)
UCSF Fresno
California, USA
@kkaups1
Area of expertise: Critical care, education, international surgery/global health
orcid.org/0000-0002-0823-6902
Associate Editor of Health Policy and Economics
Lisa Marie Knowlton, MD, MPH, FACS, FRCSC
Stanford University Medical Center
California, USA
@LIsaMKnowlton
Area of expertise: Trauma, critical care, acute care surgery, health policy, health economics, insurance, financial outcomes
orcid.org/0000-0001-6046-5035
Associate Editor of Translational Research
Rosemary Kozar, MD, PhD
Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Maryland, USA
Area of expertise: Research (basic and translational)
orcid.org/0000-0002-9198-7351
Associate Editor of Dissemination / Implementation
Lacey N. LaGrone, MD, MPH, MA
University of Colorado School of Medicine/Medical Center of The Rockies
Colorado, USA
Area of expertise: Dissemination and implementation science, global surgery, clinical guideline development and adherence, access to medical information across resource settings, mixed-methods study design
orcid.org/0000-0003-4749-969X
Associate Editor of Surgical Critical Care
Niels D. Martin, MD, FACS, FCCM
University of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, USA
@nielsmd
Area of expertise: Surgical critical care, end-of-left care, organ donor management, trauma outcomes research
orcid.org/0000-0002-2157-0825
Associate Editor of Education
Mayur Narayan, MD, MPH, MBA, MHPE, FACS, FCCM, FICS, FAIM
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Jersey, USA
@SurgEdMD
Area of expertise: Acute Care Surgery, Education, Global Health
orcid.org/0000-0002-7232-7446
Associate Editor of Pediatrics
David M. Notrica, MD, FACS, FAAP
Phoenix Children's Hospital/University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix
Arizona, USA
@surgery4kids
Area of expertise: Paediatric trauma, paediatric vascular trauma, blunt solid organ injury
orcid.org/0000-0002-2939-1119
Associate Editor of Social Media
Caroline Park, MD, MPH, FACS
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center/Parkland Memorial Hospital
Texas, USA
@cPark_MD
Area of expertise: Surgical Education, Trauma Simulation, Machine Learning, Haptic/Tele-mentoring
orcid.org/0000-0003-3994-8125
Associate Editor for Organizational Engagement
Babak Sarani, MD, FACS, FCCM
George Washington University
Washington DC, USA
@saranimd
Area of expertise: Chest wall injury, coagulopathy, active shooter/mass casualty death prevention
orcid.org/0000-0001-6247-3004
Associate Editor of Injury Prevention
Leah C. Tatebe, MD, FACS
Northwestern University
Illinois, USA
@LeahTatebe
Area of expertise: Injury prevention, firearm-related injuries, resuscitation, prehospital trauma care, posttraumatic stress, trauma-informed care, palliative care, ethics
orcid.org/0000-0003-0401-3813
Associate Editor of Media Relations
Carrie Valdez, MD
The Ohio State University
Ohio, USA
@carrievaldezmd
Area of expertise: Reduction of patient exposure to opiods, management of patients with rib fractures, destigmatizing physician suicide/addiction/mental illness
orcid.org/0000-0002-7124-0584
Michaela A. West, MD, PhD, FACS, FCCM, FSIS
North Memorial Health/University of Minneapolis
Minnesota, USA
@MichaelaWest
Area of expertise: trauma, critical care, surgical infections, emergency general surgery, diversity, equity, inclusion, LGBTQ+, gender confirming surgery
orcid.org/0000-0002-6598-4114
Social Media Interns
Julia R. Coleman, MD, MPH
The Ohio State University
Ohio, US
orcid.org/0000-0001-5610-9249
@JuliaColemanMD
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Timothy C. Fabian, M.D., F.A.C.S.
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Department of Surgery
Tennessee, US
Twitter: @tfabian1
Global Editorial Board
Ameera AlHasan
Kuwait
Zsolt J. Balogh, MD, PhD, FRACS, FACS
John Hunter Hospital and University of Newcastle
Newcastle, Australia
Timothy Craig Hardcastle, MBChB, Mmed, FCS(SA), Trauma(HPCSA), PhD(UKZN)
University of KwaZulu-Natal and Durban University of Technology; Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital
Durban, South Africa
@Vemadoc
Chien-Hung Ranson Liao, MD, FACS
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital & Trauma Center
Taipei, Taiwan
Marc Maegele, MD
Cologne-Merheim Medical Center (CMMC)
Cologne, Germany
Carlos Augusto Metidieri Menegozzo, MD
University of Sao Paulo, Hospital das Clinicas
Sao Paulo, Brazil
@carlosmenegozzo
Shahin Mohseni, MD, PhD, FEBS (EmSurg), FACS
School of Medical Sciences, Orebro University
Orebro, Sweden
@thefighter_sm
Marcelo A. F. Ribeiro, Jr, MD, MsC, PhD, FACS, MAMSE, ACC(Hon)
Sheikh Shakbout Medical City
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
@drmribeirojr
Guixi Zhang, MD, FACS, MSc, TS, MHSM
The University of Hong Kong-Shezhen Hospital
Guangdong, China
US Editorial Board
Brittany K. Bankhead, MD, MS, FACS
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Texas, USA
@BBankheadMD
Gary Alan Bass, MD, MBA, MRCSI, PhD, FEBS (Em Surg)
University of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, USA
@garybassmd
Stephanie Bonne, MD, FACS
Hackensack University Medical Center
New Jersey, USA
Nikolay Bugaev, MD, FACS
Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine
Massachusetts, USA
@BugaevNikolay
Miloš Buhavac, MD, FACS
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Texas, USA
@milosbuhavac
Marko Bukur, MD, FACS
NYU Langone Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital Center
New York, USA
Damien Wilson Carter, MD, FACS
Tufts University School of Medicine/Maine Medical Center
Maine, USA
@maineburndoc
Rachel L. Choron, MD, FACS
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Jersey, USA
@RachelChoron
Bryan Collier, DO, FACS, FCCM
Virginia Tech Carillon School of Medicine
Virginia, USA
Joseph Cuschieri, MD, FACS
University of California San Francisco
California USA
@joeC_TraumaDoc
Brian J. Daley, MD, MBA, FACS, CNSC
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Knoxville
Tennessee, USA
Navpreet K. Dhillon, MD
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center/University of Maryland
Maryland, USA
@KNDhillonMD
Linda A. Dultz, MD, MPH, MSc, FRCSC, FACS
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Texas, USA
@lindadultz
Ryan P. Dumas, MD, FACS
UTSW Medical Center/Parkland Memorial Hospital
Texas, USA
@RPDumasMD
Samir M. Fakhry, MD, FACS
HCA Healthcare & George Washington University
USA
Jonathan D. Gates, MD, MBA, FACS
Hartford Hospital
Connecticut, USA
David Hampton, MD, Meng, FACS
University of Chicago Medicine
Illinois, USA
Tareq Kheirbek, MD, ScM, FACS
Brown University/Warren Alpert Medical School
Rhode Island, USA
@kheirbek
Orlando C. Kirton, MD, FACS, MCCM, FCCP, FCPP, MBA
Jefferson Health-Abington/Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University
Pennsylvania, USA
@orlandokirton1
Jonathan P. Meizoso, MD, MSPH
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Ryder Trauma Center
Florida, USA
@jpmeizoso
Patrick Murphy, MD, MPH, MSc, FRCSC, FACS
Medical College of Wisconsin
Wisconsin, USA
@pbatesmurphy
Purvi P. Patel, MD, FACS
Loyola University Medical Center
Illinois, USA
@pppatelmd
Joseph F. Rappold, MD, FACS
Maine Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine
Maine, USA
Jack Sava, MD, FACS
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Washington DC, USA
Dane Scantling, DO, MPH
Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine
Massachusetts, USA
@dane_scantling
Kevin M. Schuster, MD, MPH, FACS
Yale School of Medicine
Connecticut, USA
@kevinMschuster
Matthew Tadlock
Erin Vanzant, MD, FACS
University of Florida
Florida, USA
Publishing Team
Publisher: Shannon Lewis
Head of Portfolio: Kathleen Lyons