Dr. Jeffrey Salomone, Division of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care, Dept. of Surgery, Emory SOM

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Jeffrey P. Salomone, MD

Faculty Appointment

Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Clinical Appointments

		Chief, General Surgery, Grady Memorial Hospital
		Chief, Surgical Infectious Diseases, Grady
		Police Surgeon, City of Atlanta Police Department

Telephone

404.616.3552

Affiliation

Board Certification

		General Surgery
		Surgical Critical Care
		Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic

Medical Degree

University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, NV, Class of 1990

Postgraduate Training

		General Surgery Residency, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, 1990-1995

		Fellowship in Surgical Critical Care, Tulane University Medical Center, 1995-1996

Honors and Awards

		Norman E. McSwain, Jr., PHTLS Leadership Award, given by the PreHospital Trauma Life Support Division (PHTLS) of the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT)

		Physician Health-Care Hero for 2007, Atlanta Business Chronicle

		Recipient, Certificate of Appreciation from the National First Aid Science Advisory Board of the American Red Cross/American Heart Association, 11/2005; over the course of one year, Dr. Salomone — representing the ACS Committee on Trauma — sat on the board, which convened to review the literature and to reach evidence-based recommendations for lay persons performing first aid

		Invited to participate in the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference 69 (JCOC) by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 4/2005

		Citizen of the Year, awarded by the Atlanta Police Department, 2004

		Dean's Teaching Innovation Award, Emory University School of Medicine, 2003

		Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, 1999-2000, 2nd Edition, 2000-01, 3rd edition

		PHTLS Achievement Award, given by the National Association of EMTs for contributions to the development of the Prehospital Trauma Life Support program

Recent Book Publications

		Salomone JP, Pons PT, McSwain NE, eds. PHTLS: Prehospital Trauma Life Support. Sixth edition. St. Louis: Mosby, 2007.

		Salomone JP, Pons PT, McSwain NE, eds. PHTLS: Prehospital Trauma Life Support. Military Sixth edition. St. Louis: Mosby, 2007.

		McSwain NE, Alexander M, Bamonti A, Chapman G, Clarkes MA, Ham N, Salomone JP, contributing eds. PHTLS: Prehospital Trauma Life Support Instructor’s Resource Manual. Sixth edition. St. Louis: Mosby, 2007.

Organizational Memberships

		American College of Surgeons: Fellow; Committee on Trauma; Liaison between the Committee on Trauma and the PreHospital Trauma Life Support Program; Chair, Emergency Services/Prehospital Subcommittee of the Committee on Trauma
		Mass Casualty Triage Committee (a national committee formed to develop a triage protocol for mass casualty incidents; funded under a TIIDE grant from the CDC), Representative of the American College of Surgeons
		National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, Board of Directors
		Represent the ACS Committee on Trauma for both the National EMS Scope of Practice Project, led by the National Association of State EMS Directors, and the EMD Education Agenda of the Future, led by the National Association of EMS Educators
		Department of Health and Human Services, American Pediatric Surgical Association and Maternal and Child Health Bureau
		Georgia Surgical Society
		American Trauma Society
		Surgical Infection Society
		Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma: Disaster Committee; Chair, Membership Committee; Nominations Committee
		American Heart Association
		Southeastern Surgical Congress, Fellow
		Medical Association of Georgia
		Society for Critical Care Medicine
		National Association of Emergency Medical Services Physicians, Standards and Clinical Practice Committee
		National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians: Prehospital Trauma Life Support Program (PHTLS); Senior Associate Medical Director, PHTLS Executive Council
		American Medical Association

Current Editorial Boards

		Prehospital Emergency Care
		EMS Management Journal (an online journal)

Clinical Interests

		Surgical infections and sepsis
		Traumatic brain injury
		Prehospital trauma management
		Herniorrhaphy

Research Interests

		Surgical infection, i.e. clinical investigations of new anti-infective agents
		Prehospital emergency care, especially the out-of-hospital management of severe trauma
		Hemodynamic management and care of victims of severe traumatic brain injury

Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member

1996