Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Trauma/Surgical Critical
Care, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
Clinical Appointment
Co-Director, Grady Memorial Hospital Burn Unit
Military
Major, Medical Corps, United States Air Force Reserve, 59th Surgical Specialists Squadron, Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, San Antonio, TX, 2008-
Chief of Surgery, 332nd United States Air Force Theater Hospital, Balad, Iraq, 9/2008-1/2009
Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, MI, Class of 1997
Postgraduate Training
General Surgery Residency, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1997–2002
Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Surgery Fellowship, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2002–2003
Current Organizational Memberships
American College of Surgeons, Fellow
Society of Critical Care Medicine–Texas Chapter, Charter Member
Southwestern Surgical Congress
Southeastern Surgical Congress
Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Association for Academic Surgery
Western Trauma Association
Clinical Specialties
Abdominal trauma
Hypothermia, coagulopathy and TEG analysis
Advanced cardiac life support
Research Interests
Characterization of the relationship between vasopressin and vasodilatory hemorrhagic shock
Massive transfusion protocol development in an urban trauma center
Pediatric burn unit experience
Efficacy of paravertebral spinal block in the patient with multiple rib fractures