Maggie Baumer, JD

Maggie Baumer is an attorney licensed to practice in both New York and Massachusetts. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from Tufts University in 2004 and her Juris Doctor degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2011. She has served in advocacy positions for several health care organizations including the Long Term Care Community Coalition and the Office of the New York State Attorney General (Health Care Bureau) in New York City.

Maggie is a board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics & Prosthetics (2016 to present) and is currently the President (term beginning in January 2022); the American Trauma Society’s (ATS) Board of Directors (2016 through 2022); and the Trauma Survivors Network Advisory Board (2014 through 2022) and currently serves as Co-Chair of the ATS Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Task Force. She currently serves as Area Clinic Business Manager for Hanger Clinic in Massachusetts, as well as a Certified Peer Visitor Coordinator for the AMPOWER program, a peer-to-peer network designed to empower and strengthen those affected by amputation or limb difference through peer mentorship, educational resources, and community events.

Courtney Dunkerton

Courtney has been working in the human trafficking and sexual violence human services field since 2013. As Human Trafficking Program Coordinator with the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NCCASA), she develops and delivers training, provides technical assistance, and equips NC rape crisis and member programs in capacity building to serve human trafficking survivors.

Courtney served on the project team from UNC Chapel Hill School of Social Work to develop and implement Teach2Reach: a developmentally appropriate prevention and awareness curriculum for North Carolina schools informed by existing scientific evidence for educating youth about sex trafficking. She co-authored the article Recommendations for Educating Youth about Sex Trafficking for the 2021 Journal of Human Trafficking.

Erin Carlyle Hall, MD, MPH

Erin Hall is double-boarded in general surgery and surgical critical care. She completed her general surgery residency at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, fellowship in trauma/surgical critical care/emergency general surgery at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, and MPH at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine and has clinical appointments in the Department of Surgery and the Department of Critical Care Medicine at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. She also serves as Medical Director of the MedStar Washington Hospital Center-Community Violence Intervention Program.

She has been working to expand the definition of long-term outcomes in trauma care and to move the bar of “success” to more patient centered outcomes. She has used both qualitative and quantitative methods to track longer term outcomes in trauma patients at a local level and to understand which outcomes are most meaningful for trauma patients. Her goal is to find evidence based interventions to make trauma care better for our most vulnerable patients. She has active projects studying the efficacy of hospital-based violence intervention programs, civil legal needs in survivors of violent injury, and the effects of policing in hospitals.

Debra Houry, MD, MPH

Dr. Houry is the Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science at CDC. Most recently, she served as CDC’s Acting Principal Deputy Director and prior to that Dr. Houry served for over 7 years as the Director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Dr. Houry previously served as an associate professor at Emory University and emergency physician at Grady Memorial Hospital. Dr. Houry received her MD and MPH degrees from Tulane University and completed her residency training in emergency medicine at Denver Health Medical Center.

Sharon Henry, MD, FACS

Dr. Henry is the Anne Scalea Professor of Trauma Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and is a trauma surgeon at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. Dr. Henry came to the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in 1997, where she is currently an attending trauma surgeon/intensivist and director of the Center's Division of Wound Healing and Metabolism.

After joining the faculty at the R A Cowley Shock Trauma center, in addition to her duties and interests in injury care, she was named the chief of the division of wound healing and metabolism service. Dr. Henry has been active in the Maryland Committee on Trauma serving as chair from 2004-2010. She served on the ACS central COT and was chair of the ATLS subcommittee 2013-2018. She was the ATLS global program chair until 2022. She was on the board of managers of the AAST from 2017-2021 and was a part of the senior visiting surgeon program in 2009 to Landstuhl Germany. She is also a member of the federal Trauma critical care team. She chairs the outreach subcommittee of the AAST’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee and co-chairs the American Trauma Society’s DEI taskforce.

Susan Kennedy, RN, BSN

Susan is currently serving as the Senior Director Trauma, Burn, and SCCS at
Medstar Washington Hospital Center located in Washington, DC.  Susan has been a staff member at Washington Hospital Center since 1987, starting as a staff nurse and working successfully up through the ranks in the trauma program.  Susan is a member of the ATS Board of Directors as well as a long time faculty lead for the Trauma Registry Course.  In addition, Susan has been published and presented nationally including, "A Life in the Balance, The Steve Scalise Story", a keynote session at the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy. 

Melissa Sorensen, RN, BS, CEN