The American Trauma Society Presents a Trauma Registry Webinar on May 6, 2020 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET

Joint Trauma System: How Registry Data Changes Clinical Practice

Join the ATS and Col Stacy Shackelford, MD, FACS, USAF, MC, and Chief, Joint Trauma System, Combat Support Agency, Defense Health Agency for a special free Trauma Registry Webinar to celebrate Trauma Registry Professionals Day, "Joint Trauma System: How Registry Data Changes Clinical Practice."How do clinical observations lead to change? The military’s Joint Trauma System was started during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to address a need for performance improvement. Integral to this effort was the Department of Defense Trauma Registry. Modeled after the U.S. National Trauma Data Bank, the registry successfully collected trauma care data during combat operations and now contains over 180,000 trauma records. The observations of front line clinicians led to questions that challenged the current standard of care and data was analyzed that contributed to impactful changes: damage control resuscitation, whole blood transfusion, prehospital transfusion, damage control surgery techniques, and advances in hemorrhage control technology.

Presenter:
Col Stacy Shackelford is the first JTS Chief to serve under the DHA governance. Col Shackelford previously served as the JTS Chief of Education and Performance Improvement.
Col Shackelford was instrumental in standing up the JTS Committees for Surgical and En Route Combat Casualty Care. She is also known for her contributions to prolonged field care (PFC) and her work in predeployment training. She was awarded the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care Frank K. Butler award for 2016 for her many contributions to improving military prehospital trauma care. She also received the Joint Service Commendation medal and the Bronze Star.

She deployed five times to CENTCOM. During her last three deployments, Col Shackelford served as the forward Joint Theater Trauma System director for Operation Enduring Freedom, managing a team of 24 personnel and coordinating trauma care delivery for three Role 3 and 22 Role 2 surgical facilities throughout Afghanistan. She twice served as the dual-hatted Operation Freedom's Sentinel trauma system director/Task Force Medical-Afghanistan deputy commander for clinical services. She also led the first CENTCOM prehospital trauma system assessment in Afghanistan in 2012 and the CENTCOM trauma system assessment in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2018.

Prior to joining JTS, Col Shackelford led education and training for the Air Force's premiere trauma training platform, Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills, University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. She served as president of the Excelsior Society 2017-2018 and works integrally with the American College of Surgeons as the Region Chief for the US Military, Canadian Military and Veterans Affairs to the Committee on Trauma.
Col Shackelford was commissioned through the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1989 and attended medical school at Tulane University, general surgery residency at the University of Utah, and trauma fellowship at the University of Southern California/Los Angeles County. Upon entering active duty, she completed Air Command and Staff College and Air War College and served as Deputy Chief of Medical Staff and Surgical Flight Commander.

 
Cost: In honor of Trauma Registry Professionals Day, this webinar is FREE for Members and for Non-Members.