Professor of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia
Chair, VCU Division of Acute Care Surgical Services
Medical Director, VCU Trauma Center, VCU Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia
VCU/MCV Foundation Representative to the Panamerican Trauma Society
Past-President, Panamerican Trauma Society
Sharline Z. Aboutanos, MD, FAAP, FACS — USA
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
Craniofacial and Pediatric Plastic Surgery
Richmond Plastic Surgeons
Richmond, Virginia
Hassan Al Thani, MD — Qatar
Head of the Trauma and Vascular Surgery
Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
Alberto Basilio, MD — México
General Surgery
Hospital Dr. Ruben Lenero SSDF
Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico Mexico City, Mexico
Andrew C. Bernard, MD, FACS — USA
President, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Professor of Surgery
Paul E. Kearney MD Endowed Chair in Trauma Surgery
Section Head, Acute Care Surgery, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Susan Briggs, MD, FACS — USA
Founder, International Medical Surgical Response Team
Director, Massachusetts General Hospital’s International Trauma and Disaster Institute
Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Past-President, Panamerican Trauma Society
Eileen Bulger, MD, FACS — USA
Chair, American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma
Chief of Trauma, Harborview Medical Center
Professor of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Andre Campbell, MD, FACS — USA
Professor of Surgery - University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
Attending Trauma Surgeon, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, San Francisco, California
Martin A. Croce, MD, FACS — USA
President-Elect, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Surgical Critical Care
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee
Francisco de Salles Collet e Silva, MD — Brazil
Surgeon, Emergency Services Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Surgeon, Sao Paulo City Hall, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Jose Cruvinel Neto, MD, FACS — Brazil
General and Trauma Surgery
Assistant Professor of Discipline of General Surgery University of Santo Amaro – UNISA,
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Marc A. de Moya, MD, FACS — USA
Chief, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
José Diaz, MD, FACS — USA
Chief, Division Acute Care Surgery
Vice Chair for Quality & Safety
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
University of Maryland, School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Cristiane de Alencar Domingues, PhD — Brazil
Director, ATCN Program in Brazil and Latin America
Council Member, Society of Trauma Nurses
Juan Carlos Duchesne, MD, FACS — USA
Professor of Surgery
Section Chief of Trauma & Critical Care
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Michael J. Feldman, MD — USA
Assistant Professor
Medical Director, Evans-Haynes Burn Center
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Paula Ferrada, MD, FACS — USA
Associate Professor of Surgery and Director, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program, VCU School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia
Medical Director, Surgical & Trauma Intensive Care Unit (STICU), VCU Health System
Ricardo Ferrada, MD, FACS — Colombia
Professor, Department of Surgery
University of Valle, Cali, Colombia
Founding Member, Panamerican Trauma Society
Past-President, Panamerican Trauma Society
Esteban Foianini, MD, FACS — Bolivia
Executive Secretary, Panamerican Trauma Society
Director, Clinica Foianini, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Chair, ATLS Bolivia
Governor, Bolivia Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (ACS)
Chair, International Workgroup ACS
Member, International Relations Committee ACS
Gustavo P. Fraga, MD, FACS — Brazil
Assistant Professor
Coordinator of Division of Trauma Surgery
University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
Past-President, Panamerican Trauma Society
Alberto García, MD — Colombia
Trauma and Emergency Surgeon
Fundación Valle del Lili Hospital, Cali, Colombia
Diogo Garcia, MD, FACS — Brazil
Director, Trauma Center at Beneficencia Portuguesa in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Vice-Chair, Brazil Chapter of the Committee on Trauma
David Gomez, MD — Canada
Assistant Professor
Division of General Surgery
St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Vincente Gracias, MD, FACS — USA
Interim Dean, Chief Executive Officer
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), New Brunswick, New Jersey
Professor of Surgery, Senior Vice Chancellor for clinical affairs of RBHS
President and Chair of Rutgers Health Group New Jersey, USA
Adil Haider, MD, MPH — USA
Trauma Surgeon
Kessler Director
The Center for Surgery and Public Health
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
2017 Recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Freedom for his worked aimed at improving the health of minorities and the under privileged
Sharon Henry, MD, FACS — USA
Trauma Surgeon
University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
Director, Division of Wound Healing and Metabolism, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
ATLS Committee Chair
Ricardo Herrera, MD — Peru
General Surgeon
Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza
Universidad San Martin de Porres
Lima, Peru
John B. Holcomb, MD, FACS — USA
Professor, Department of Surgery
McGovern Medical School
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, Texas
Eduardo Huamán Egoávil, MD — Peru
Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon
Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Lima
Rao R. Ivatury, MD, FACS — USA
Professor Emeritus
Acute Care Surgical Services Division
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
Past-President, Panamerican Trauma Society
Past-Executive Director, Panamerican Trauma Society
María Fernanda Jiménez, MD, FACS — Colombia
Professor of Surgery
Universidad del Rosario
Hospital Universitario Mayor Mederi, Bogota, Colombia
Chief, Region 14 (Latin America and the Caribbean)
ACS-COT International Injury Care Committee Chair
Rob Lawrence — USA
Chief Operating Officer of the Richmond Ambulance Authority, Richmond, USA
AriLeppäniemi, MD — USA
Chief of Emergency Surgery
Helsinki University Hospital, Meilahti, Finland
Past-President of ESTES and IATSIC
Editor-in-Chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Surgery
Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
Associate Editor of the World Journal of Surgery.
Manuel Lorenzo, MD, MBA, FACS, FCCM — USA
Vice-Chair of Surgery
Director of Surgical Critical Care
Program Director of the SCC fellowship program
Methodist Dallas Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, USA
Past-President, Panamerican Trauma Society
Gustavo Machain, MD, FACS — Paraguay
Professor of Surgery
Coordinator of General Surgery Residency,
Universidad Nacional de Asunción
Professor of Surgery
Chief of Surgery
Hospital de Clinicas, Asuncion
IgnacioMagaña, MD, FACS — México
General Surgeon
Colegio de Cirujanos Militares
Mexico City, Mexico
Ronald Maier, MD, FACS — USA
President-Elect, American College of Surgeons
President, American Surgical Association
Jane and Donald D. Trunkey Professor
Vice-Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington
Surgeon-in-Chief at Harborview Medical Center, the Level I Trauma Center in Seattle, Washington
Past-President, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Antonio Marttos, MD — USA
Associate Professor of Surgery
Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital
University of Miami Health System
Miami, Florida
Co-Director, William Lehman Injury Research Center
Kenneth Mattox, MD, FACS — USA
Chief of Staff and Surgeon in Chief
Ben Taub Hospital, Houston, Texas
Distinguished Service Professor
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Past-President, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
David Mejia, MD — Colombia
Professor of Surgery, University of Antioquia
Trauma Surgeon, Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe
Trauma Surgeon, Hospital Universitario San Vicente Fundación, Medellin, Colombia
Napoleón Mendez, MD — Guatemala
Professor, Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala, Cuidad de Guatemala
Chief, Surgery and Emergency Service
Hospital General San Juan de Dios
Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
Ernest Eugene Moore, MD, FACS — USA
Vice-Chairman of Trauma and Critical Care Research
Professor of Surgery, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
Editor, Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Past-President, Society of University Surgeons
Past-President, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Carlos Morales, MD — Colombia
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Chief of Division of Surgery
Universidad de Antioquia
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Universidad del Valle
Attending Surgeon
University Hospital Fundación San Vicente
Medellin, Colombia
Past-President, Panamerican Trauma Society
Nicholas Namias, MD, FACS — USA
Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology
DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery
Divisions of Burns and Trauma/Surgical Critical Care
Chief, Divisions of Burns
Medical Director, UM/JM Burn Center
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida
Jorge Alberto Neira, MD — Argentina
President, Fundación Trauma
Consultant, ICU Unit
Sanatorio de la Trinidad
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Past-President Sociedad Argentina de Terapia Intensiva
Past, President Sociedad Argentina de Medicina y Cirugía de Trauma
Past-President Panamerican Trauma Society
Terence Sydney O’Keeffe, MD — USA
Associate Professor of Surgery
Interim Division Chief, Trauma, Critical Care, Burn and Emergency Surgery
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Chief of Staff
Banner-University Medical Center
Tucson, Arizona
Carlos Ordoñez, MD, FACS — Colombia
Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon, Surgical Critical Care Specialist
Professor of Surgery, Trauma and Intensive Care
Universidad del Valle
Universidad ICESI
Fundación Valle del Lili
Cali, Colombia
Director of the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship
Universidad del Valle
Cali, Colombia
Past-President, Panamerican Trauma Society
Pablo Ottolino, MD — Venezuela
Chief, Unit of Trauma of IVSS
Chief, Surgery Residency Program, Universidad Central de Venezuela
Hospital Domingo Luciani
Caracas, Venezuela
Anamaría Pacheco, MD, FACS — Chile
Chief of Surgery
Hospital de Urgencia Asistencia Pública, Santiago, Chile
Professor of Surgery
Universidad de Chile, Santiago
Past-President, Panamerican Trauma Society
Michael Parra, MD, FACS — USA
Clinical Associate Professor of General Surgery and Trauma/Surgical Critical Care
Director, Trauma Clinical Research
Florida International University School of Medicine
Florida Atlantic University School of Medicine
Broward General Hospital/Level I Trauma Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Gregory Peck, DO, FACS — USA
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Associate Director, Acute Care Surgery Fellowship
Associate Director, Trauma
Associate Director, Performance Improvement
Division of Acute Care Surgery
Department of Surgery
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Newark, New Jersey
Andrew Peitzman, MD, FACS — USA
Executive Vice-Chair
Vice-Chair, General/Community Surgery
Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of General Surgery
Vice-President for Trauma and Surgical Services, UPMC
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Past-President, Panamerican Trauma Society
Past-Executive Director, Panamerican Trauma Society
Past-President, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Ruben Peralta, MD, FACS — Qatar
Professor and Director of Trauma & Critical Care Fellowship Program
Vice-Chair Quality Patient Safety Program Committee, Department of Surgery
Associate Director of Trauma Intensive Care Unit Senior Consultant – Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care
Hamad General Hospital and Hamad Medical Corporation
Doha, Quatar
Bruno M. Pereira, MD, PhD, FACS, FCCM — Brazil
President of the World Society of the Abdominal Compartment (WSACS)
Associate Professor of Surgery
Trauma/Acute Care Surgery and
Surgical Critical Care
University of Campinas
Campinas, Brazil
Chief Executive Officer of SBAIT Chapter Sao Paulo, Brazil
Luis Fernando Pino Oliveros, MD — Colombia
Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon
Master (c) Health Administration
Professor, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Coordinator, Trauma and Acute Care Fellowship
Department of Surgery
Universidad del Valle
Cali, Colombia
Gerd Daniel Pust, MD, FACS — USA
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Director Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Associate Program Director, Surgery Residency Program
Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, The DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery
Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
Miami, Florida
Juan Carlos Puyana, MD, FACS — USA
Associate Professor, Critical Care Medicine, Surgery and Clinical Translational Science
Director of Global Health for the Department of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Past-President, Panamerican Trauma Society
Martha Quiodettis, MD, FACS — Panama
Vice-President, Panamerican Trauma Society
Head of Trauma Unit; Critical Care Surgeon, Hospital Santo Tomas
Panama City, Panama
President, Sociedad Panameña de Trauma
Member, Asociación Panameña de Cirugía
Jorge Rabat, MD — Venezuela
Head of the Department of Surgery
Ruiz and Paez Hospital-U.D.O.
Professor of Surgery in the East University (UDO)
Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela
Todd E. Rasmussen, MD, FACS — USA
Colonel USAF MC
Deputy Director
US Combat Casualty Care Research Program
Fort Detrick, Maryland
Professor of Surgery
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, Maryland
Tarek Razek, MD, FACS — Canada
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Trauma Surgery
Co-Director, Centre for Global Surgery
McGill University Health Centre
Montreal, Quebec
Gaspar Reboredo, RN — Uruguay
Chair, Nursing Subcommittee Panamerican Trauma Society
Director ATCN
Montevideo, Uruguay
Joao Rezende-Neto, MD, FRCSC, FACS, PhD — Canada
Surgeon-Investigator
Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Surgery
St Michael’s Hospital-University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Marcelo Ribeiro, MD, FACS — Brazil
General Secretary, Sociedade Brasileira de Atendimiento Integradoao Traumatizado (SBAIT)
Chairman and Professor of Surgery, Universidade Santo Amaro-Unisa
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sandro Rizoli, MD, FACS — Canada
President, Panamerican Trauma Society
President, Trauma Association of Canada
Scientist
Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science
Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine
Director, Trauma Division
St. Michael’s Hospital-University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Edgar Rodas, MD, FACS — USA
Associate Professor of Surgery
Co-Director, Program for Global Surgery
VCU School of Medicine
Richmond, Virginia
Aurelio Rodriguez, MD, FACS — USA
Past-Associate Director
Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Director Emeritus, Shock Trauma Center, Allegheny General Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Founding Member, Panamerican Trauma Society
Past-President, Panamerican Trauma Society
Fernando Rodriguez, MD — Colombia
Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon
Fundación Valle del Lili
Cali, Colombia
Pablo Rodriguez Ortiz, MD, FACS, FCCM, FACP, FCCP — Puerto Rico
Chief, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery in Centro Médico of Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Professor of Surgery at the University of Puerto Rico
Chairman, COT-ACS of Puerto Rico
Michael Rotondo, MD, FACS — USA
President American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Professor, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, The School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs and CEO University of Rochester Medical Faculty Group
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York
Past-Chair, American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma
Juan Carlos Salamea, MD, FACS — Ecuador
Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon
Universidad Del Azuay
Professor of Surgery, University of Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador
Professor of Surgery, Hospital Universitario del Río, Cuenca
Past-President, Ecuadorian Society of Surgery
Mentor and founder of the Trauma and Emergency League in Ecuador
Stephanie Santin, MD — Brazil
General Surgery
University of Santo Amaro
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Thomas Scalea, MD, FACS — USA
Executive Director, Panamerican Trauma Society
Professor of Surgery
Physician-in-Chief, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
System Chief for Critical Care Services
University of Maryland Medical System
Baltimore, Maryland
Sandro Scarpelini, MD — Brazil
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery and Anatomy
Ribeirao Preto Medical School
University of Sao Paulo
Ribeirao Preto, Brazil
Pablo Sibaja, MD — Costa Rica
Professor of Surgery
Universidad de Costa Rica
Dean, Universidad San Judas Tadeo Medical School
Chief, Intensive Care Unit
Hospital de Mexico
San Jose, Costa Rica
Felipe Vega, MD, FACS — Mexico
President-elect, Panamerican Trauma Society
Coordinator of the CEIC – Center for Teaching and Research in Surgery