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Editorial Board

David A Spain, MD, FACS, Editor-in-Chief

The David L. Gregg, MD Professor and Chief of Acute Care Surgery
Associate Division Chief of General Surgery
Department of Surgery, Stanford University
Trauma Medical Director, Stanford Healthcare

Surgery sections: Critical Care, Trauma and Thermal Injury

Of note: Founding member of the Surgical Critical Care Program Directors Society, American College of Surgeons Program Committee, American College of Surgeons Board of Governors, and Editorial Board of Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.

Special interests: Shock, sepsis, multiple organ failure, and ICU pneumonia, as well as organizational characteristics of well-functioning trauma centers and systems.

Financial Disclosure: The editor has no commercial relationship with manufacturers of products or providers of services discussed in this publication.

Jay Doucet, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS, RDMS, Weekly Curriculum Editor

Professor of Clinical Surgery
Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Burns
University of California San Diego Health System

Kelly M Austin, MD, Associate Editor

Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Program Director, Surgical Critical Care Residency
Surgical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Division of Pediatric General & Thoracic Surgery
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Frederick A Luchette, MD, MSc, Associate Editor

Vice Chair, VA Affairs
Professor of Surgery
Loyola University of Chicago
Chief of Surgical Services
Hines VA Hospital
Chicago, Illinois

Andrew J Patterson, MD, PhD, Associate Editor

Larson Professor
Executive Vice Chair
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Nebraska
Omaha, Nebraska

Samuel A Tisherman, MD, FACS, FCCM, Associate Editor

Professor of Surgery, Program in Trauma
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Director, Center for Critical Care and Trauma Education
Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit,
University of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland

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