Amber Brandolino is the Clinical Research Coordinator for the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery research program and Clinical Staff Lead within the Department of Surgery’s Division of Research. She is engaged with several collaboratives, including the Milwaukee Trauma Outcomes Project (MTOP), Trauma Quality of Life Clinic, and the hospital-based component of 414LIFE. She is a part-time student within the Institute for Health & Equity’s Public and Community Health PhD program. Her research interests focus heavily on the intersection of violent mechanisms of injury, clinical care, and public health. Her research methods include clinical and healthcare utilization data abstraction, surveys, large datasets, regression modeling, qualitative analyses (thematic and discourse), and geospatial mapping and analyses.

Keywords: ● gun violence ● geospatial analyses and mapping ● trauma clinic follow-up ● racial health disparities

Dr. Thomas Carver is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin. As an Acute Care Surgeon his clinical focus is Trauma, Emergency General Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care. His clinical research interests focus on thoracic trauma and the management of chest injuries, pain control following trauma and surgery, splenic injury diagnosis and management, ultrasound use in trauma, and surgical education.

Keywords: ● thoracic trauma ● splenic injury ● trauma ultrasound

Dr. de Moya is a Professor of Surgery and the Chief of the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. His research interests include thoracic trauma, traumatic brain injury, acute care surgery education, and resuscitation. His research methods are primarily focused on clinical outcomes in retrospective or prospective designs.

Keywords: ● thoracic trauma ● traumatic brain injury ● resuscitation

Dr. Chris Dodgion, MD, MSPH, MBA, is an Associate Professor of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery and serves as a Froedtert/MCW Associate Trauma Medical Director. Through global collaboration he seeks to strengthen trauma systems, expand quality improvement initiatives in low resource settings, and address the global surgical workforce shortage through education innovation. His research methods vary from geospatial mapping and analysis informing system and workforce planning to survey development/ implementation examining educational initiative impact. He is passionate about training the next generation of global and trauma surgery leaders.

Keywords: ● global surgery ● trauma system strengthening ● education innovation

Dr. Flynn-O'Brien trained in general surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she also obtained her Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology. She then completed her Pediatric Surgery Fellowship at Children’s Wisconsin, where she is now faculty. She is the Associate Trauma Medical Director at Children’s Wisconsin, core faculty at the Compressive Injury Center, and a member of the Milwaukee Trauma Outcomes Project. Her current research focuses on trends in pediatric injury, the patient and family experience after firearm injury, recidivism after violent injury, and the intersection between injury and mental and behavioral health.

Dr. Holena is an Associate Professor of Surgery and serves as Director of Research for the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. His research interests include trauma systems, the use of audiovisual recordings to improve processes of care in trauma resuscitation, and the application of the Failure to Rescue (FTR) metric to trauma populations. His research methods primarily focus on the use of large datasets and on abstraction of video recordings in the trauma setting.

Keywords: ● trauma outcomes ● failure-to-rescue ● trauma video review

Dr. Christina Megal is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. She serves in the role of Clinical Director and APP Manager for the Wound Care Center and Ostomy Program. In addition to clinical and administrative responsibilities, research interests include the use of wound diagnostic technology, factors that impede wound healing, impact of topical therapies on wound healing, and nutrition.

Keywords: ● wound diagnostics ● wound healing ● chronic wounds ● delayed wound healing ● wound technology ● nutrition and wounds

Dr. Peschman is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and serves as the Chair of Froedtert’s Trauma Education Committee and as an Associate Program Director of the General Surgery Residency Program. His research interests include medical education, trauma, acute care surgery and critical care system and protocol development, and management of rib fractures. His research methods primarily focus on the use of registry data and prospective observational studies of educational interventions.

Keywords: ● medical education ● protocols ● systems ● rib fractures

Dr. Andrew Schramm is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. He has a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine. As a clinical and community psychologist, Dr. Schramm’s research interests include factors that impact the psychological adjustment of survivors of traumatic injury. He is particularly interested in the impact of social and environmental factors on recovery such as experiences of discrimination and economic inequity. A second major focus of Dr. Schramm’s research is suicide prevention, and he currently leads two grant-funded studies on suicide prevention in trauma centers. This work includes development of Practice Management Guidelines on suicide screening and intervention in trauma settings with the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST).

Keywords: ● PTSD ● suicide prevention ● trauma

Dr. Travis Webb is a Professor of Surgery. His research interests are in the areas of geriatric surgery and trauma care, emergency general surgery and trauma surgery outcomes, and surgical education. His research methods primarily utilize retrospective designs for clinical outcomes and prospective designs for educational related studies.

Keywords: ● geriatric surgery ● trauma outcomes ● medical education