Trauma Care: Navigating Emerging Trends

Join the American Trauma Society on April 19, 2024 from 11:00 AM - 5:30 PM ET as we bring together a diverse group of professionals dedicated to advancing trauma care. This year’s conference features an array of sessions designed to address prevention through public health, clinical practice, and compassionate aspects of trauma care, highlighting innovative trends, addressing disparities, and focusing on the integration of data to improve patient outcomes. It's an essential gathering for those looking to make a significant impact in the field of trauma care through knowledge, advocacy, and applied compassion.Join our members, staff, and guests for a virtual conference featuring well-known national speakers as well as live question and answer sessions.that examine the intersection of public safety and public health with injuries and deaths related to violent incidents across the nation. Our half day program will focus on this pressing crisis, through the lens of healthcare staff, public safety officials, and survivors. Join our members, staff, and guests for a virtual conference featuring well known national speakers as well as live question and answer sessions.

Speakers will include: 

• Joseph Sakran, MD, MPA, MPH - Director Emergency General Surgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine
• Leah C Tatebe, MD FACS - Associate Professor of Surgery at Northwestern University
• Ed Barksdale, MD - Surgeon in Chief at Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital/University Hospitals
•  Anna Newcomb, PhD, LCSW - Trauma Research Manager at Inova Health System
  
• Amanda L. Truelove, RHIA, CSTR - Trauma Data Analyst, TQIP Coordinator Trauma Services Dept. at St. Louis Children's Hospital
• Chinetta Neal, PhD, LCCP - Trauma Prevention Educator at Lawnwood Regional Trauma Center
• Mary Ann Spott, PhD, MPA, MSIS, MBA - Deputy Chief at the Joint Trauma System
  
• Nicholas S Price, MHA, MLS(ASCP)^CM - Manager, Transfusion and Tissue Services at Medstar Washington Hospital Center
• Aaron Dix, NRP, MBA - Vice President of Emergency Medical Services at Prisma Health
• Jefferson G. Williams MD, MPH - Deputy Medical Director at Wake County Department of EMS
• Rachel Appelbaum, MD is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

This conference is designed for anyone involved in trauma care and systems at the EMS, hospital, local, or state level, including:

• Nurses
• EMTs
• Paramedics
• Physicians
• Trauma survivors and their families
• Registry professionals
• Injury prevention professionals
• Trauma program managers
• All other healthcare professionals