Indiana Statewide Trauma and Emergency Medicine Symposium
Wednesday Dec. 4, Full-day trauma and emergency medicine symposium and Thursday Dec. 5, Small group educational offerings.
At the Forum Events Center, 11313 USA Parkway, Fishers, Indiana
The 2024 Indiana Statewide Trauma and Emergency Medicine Symposium is an educational event providing information on innovative approaches to trauma and emergency care. Regional and national speakers will address topics to enhance the quality of care for adult and pediatric trauma patients.
Learning Objectives:
• Identify prevention methods to decrease the incidence of trauma.
• Address medical issues which impact care of the trauma patient.
• Provide insight on the impact of trauma to our community.
• Discuss issues of trauma care at the local and national level.
National Speakers
Kenneth L. Mattox, M.D., is one of the most recognized surgeons around the world. He is Distinguished Service Professor of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and Chief of Staff/Chief of Surgery at the Ben Taub Hospital, Houston, Texas. He helped develop the internationally renowned Ben Taub General Hospital Emergency Center and its equally respected Trauma Center. His reputation as an innovator in trauma care is worldwide. He has made original and significant contributions in trauma resuscitation, trauma systems, thoracic trauma, vascular injury, autotransfusion, complex abdominal trauma and multi-system trauma. His research in preoperative fluid restriction for penetrating trauma shook the foundation of surgical doctrine in this area. His textbook, Trauma, is an international best seller, now in its 9th edition, and he is co-editor of the Sabiston’s Textbook of Surgery, recognized throughout the world. He is co-editor of the second edition of Rich’s Vascular Trauma. A fifth book, History of Surgery in Houston, recounts the last 50 years of Houston’s impressive and colorful surgical heritage. He co-authored the unique, international best seller, Top Knife, a practical guide to trauma care, translated into thirteen foreign languages. Authoring over 600 articles and more than 1000 abstracts, he has also served on six Editorial Boards and has been an Editorial Reviewer for 15 other journals. He has been a visiting professor or consultant to more than 800 medical schools, hospitals, or health care systems throughout the world. For the past 20+ years, he has been Program Director of the Las Vegas Trauma, Critical Care, and Acute Care Surgery Course. In 2008, he added the directorship of another international conference to his “docket,” Medical Disaster Response.
Dr. Kenji Inaba is a Professor of Surgery, Anesthesia and Emergency Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. He is the Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery, and the program director for the General Surgery Residency training program. He is also the Division Chief for Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care with a full-time appointment at the Los Angeles General Medical Center. He has lectured extensively, having given more than 490 lectures around the world. As a researcher, he has authored more than 800 peer reviewed articles, 510 scientific presentations,65 textbook chapters, and is the editor of 9 textbooks, with over $7 Million in external funding. He has mentored more than 155 students, residents and fellows who have won 35 separate research awards for the work they have completed together. He is an Associate Editor for both the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery as well as Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open. While at USC, he has been the recipient of 26 distinct teaching awards including the USC Keck School of Medicine Overall Excellence in Teaching Award for the Clinical Sciences. After completing his term as a Director of the American Board of Surgery, he was appointed to the ACGME Surgery RC and is a member of numerous surgical societies, leading critical initiatives such as the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Stop the Bleed program. Under his leadership, this program has now exceeded 4 million students around the world. In addition to his role at USC, Dr. Inaba has led humanitarian surgical teams to Haiti and Nepal as well as most recently the Ukraine. He is also a sworn Reserve Police Officer, and the Medical Director for the Los Angeles Police Department, currently assigned to Metropolitan Division.
Dr. Dennis Ashley is the Will C. Sealy Endowed Chair and Professor of Surgery at the Mercer University School of Medicine and the Director of Trauma at Atrium Health Navicent Medical Center. He received his bachelor’s degree from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, and MD degree from the University of Kentucky. He completed a general surgery residency at the Medical Center Navicent Health and Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, Georgia. This was followed by a Trauma Fellowship at Grady Hospital, Emory University School of Medicine, in Atlanta, Georgia, and a Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Ashley is a member of numerous medical societies including the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Southern Surgical Association, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He has served the American College of Surgeons Georgia Chapter as Secretary, State Chair of the Committee on Trauma, Governor, Vice-President and President. He has also served as a member of the American College of Surgeons National Committee on Trauma as well as Southeast Region Chief. He is currently the Governor appointed Chairman of the Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission.
Registration - $50. Visit this link, or contact Madeline Wilson, IHA’s Trauma System Development Manager at mwilson@ihaconnect.org for more information.
