2016 Meet The Speakers
Dr. Megan Brenner received her medical degree from Medical College of Virginia/VCU. She completed her general surgery residency at UCLA Medical Center/David Geffen School of Medicine, her Trauma/Critical Care fellowship at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, and her Vascular Surgery fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Dr. Brenner is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Divisions of Trauma/Critical Care and Vascular Surgery at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center and University of Maryland School of Medicine.
This is Dr. Chiu’s 7th consecutive year on the Faculty of Point/Counterpoint. Dr. Chiu received a Bachelor of Science degree with Special Honors from the George Washington University and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed his surgery residency at UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey and a Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center and R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, where he is currently Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program.
Dr. Chiu’s literary contributions include fifty articles, thirteen chapters, and he is co-editor of the textbook “Critical Care Emergency Medicine.” He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Critical Care Medicine, and he has contributed to the development of the EAST Oriens Award, in which the Fellow award recipient has been invited to the Faculty of Point/Counterpoint. Dr. Chiu has most recently been busy developing SAFAS, the Surgical critical care and Acute care surgery Fellowship Application Service, sponsored by the the Surgical Critical Care Program Directors Society.
Dr. Jay Collins is a Professor of Surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Collins received his medical degree from the University of California-Irvine. He completed General Surgery Residency from the University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile, Alabama. He completed a Trauma and Critical Care Fellowship at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Collins is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Collin's clinical interests include advanced laparoendoscopic surgery, general abdominal surgery, trauma, burns and critical care surgery.
Dr. Jose Diaz completed his training at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, internship at The University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Medical Center. He has also completed his residency at Cleveland Clinic Foundation Affiliated Health Systems General Surgery and his fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center Fellowship in Trauma / Surgical Critical Care. He is currently the Professor of Surgery / Chief Acute Care Surgery /Program in Trauma. In 2012, he won the Society of Critical Care Medicine, Presidential Citation for outstanding contributions to the Society of Critical Care Medicine award. He has published 55 peer-reviews, 7 book chapters, 60 abstracts, and 60 national / international talks.
David T. Efron, MD, FACS is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He is the Director of Trauma and Chief of the Division of Acute Care Surgery (encompassing Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care) in The Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Surgery.
Dr. Efron graduated from Brown University in 1990 with an undergraduate degree in Biology and matriculated from the Brown University School of Medicine in 1994. He completed his Surgery residency training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2002. Dr. Efron received a certificate in Advanced Specialty Training in Gastrointestinal Surgery under the tutelage of Dr. John L. Cameron and subsequently continued his training with a year as a Surgical Critical Care fellow at the Johns Hopkins Hospital under Dr. Pamela Lippsett. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery in both the fields of Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.
Dr. Efron’s current research interests are within the realm of regulation of inflammatory mediators of septic and post-injury states, particularly focusing on the role that statins play in this milieu. Dr. Efron carries additional interest in traumatic injury from interpersonal violence, measures of violence intensity, and trauma recidivism with an eye to prevention strategies.
Dr. Terrence Fullum is Associate Professor of Surgery at Howard University College of Medicine, Chief, Division of General Surgery and Chief, Division of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at Howard University Hospital in Washington, DC. In addition, Dr Fullum is Medical Director of the Howard University Center for Wellness and Weight Loss Surgery. Dr. Fullum is one of the country’s premier minimally invasive and bariatric academic surgeons and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS).
Dr Fullum earned his medical degree at Howard University College of Medicine in 1983.He subsequently remained at Howard University Hospital under the Chairmanship of Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr, where he completed an internship and residency in general surgery. Dr. Fullum then joined an elite private practice surgery group in Washington, DC under the leadership of Dr. Joel Stevens. In 1994, Dr Fullum received specialty training in advanced minimally invasive surgery from Dr James Rosser at Yale University College of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. Over the next 12 years Dr. Fullum developed minimally invasive and bariatric fellowship training programs and accredited “Center of Excellence” bariatric surgery centers at several hospitals in the Washington, DC area before returning to Howard University in 2008. Dr. Fullum has performed well over 6,000 minimally invasive procedures and over 2000 bariatric surgeries.
Dr. Sharon Henry is the Anne Scalea Professor of Trauma at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, is also a trauma surgeon at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, and is the first African-American woman to be elected as a member of the AAST during the organization's 60th annual meeting.
Dr. Henry came to the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in1997, where she is currently an attending trauma surgeon/intensivist and Director of the Center's Division of Wound Healing and Metabolism.
Dr. Henry was born in Berlin, Maryland, and received her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1985. Before returning to Baltimore, she held a faculty post at the State University of New York's Health Science Center at Brooklyn, where she had also completed her residency training. Dr. Henry received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981 at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and did a Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. She serves actively on the American College of Surgeon’s Committee on trauma. Dr. Henry was recognized for her efforts by the ACS, receiving the Meritorious Service Award in 2009 for her work with ATLS. In addition, she currently serves as the national liaison to the COT for ATOM.
Dr. Lenworth Jacobs most recent appointment is Vice President of Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer at Hartford Hospital as well as Assistant Dean of Education at the University of Connecticut. He is a Professor of Surgery and Chairman of Traumatology and Emergency Medicine at the University of Connecticut and Director of the Trauma Institute at Hartford Hospital. He graduated from the University of the West Indies Medical School in 1970. He received his surgical training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and at University and Boston City Hospitals. He received a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.
He is past Director of the American Board of Surgery and was on the Executive Committee of the Governors of the American College of Surgeons. He is currently on the Board of Regents of the American College of Surgeons.
He is a founder and past President of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) and past Vice President of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST). He is past President of the American Trauma Society.
Dr. Nathaniel McQuay completed his training at The Medical College of Virginia. He has also completed his residency at Eastern Virginia Medical School, and fellowship at University of Maryland Baltimore/Surgical Trauma & Critical Care. He currently is the Assistant Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He is also the current president of the L.D. Britt Surgical Society. He is currently a Co-Investigator for Inhalational Injuries Effect on AQP5 expression. Other current projects include The Effect of Prehospital Care on Gunshot Wound Patient Outcomes, and The effectiveness of a bedside ICU Sepsis Screening Tool In the early Diagnosis of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock in Critically Ill Patients.
Dr. Nathan Mowery joined the faculty at Wake Forest School of Medicine in July 2008 and is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery. He completed his Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship at Vanderbilt University. His research interests include hyperglycemia and stress insulin resistance, physiologic variability and its expression using dense data capture and process improvement and protocol development in the ICU. Dr. Mowery has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles that have published or are currently in press.
Dr. Dylan Nieman earned his medical degree from the University of Southern California with a combined PhD in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology. His doctoral dissertation titled "Postdiction and the effects of spatial, temporal, and feature compatibility on sensory integration” explored the ways in which delayed visual, auditory and vestibular signals remodel our real-time perceptual experience of prior stimuli. He completed his surgical training at the University of Rochester in 2015 and is currently finishing a Surgical Critical Care fellowship.
Dr. Andrew Peitzman is the Mark M. Ravitch Professor of Surgery and Vice Chairman at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He also serves as Chief of the Division of General Surgery. Dr. Peitzman attended medical school at the University of Pittsburgh and completed his residency there. During that time, he spent two years in basic science research at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Peitzman is Past President of the Panamerican Trauma Society. He is also Past President of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Dr. Peitzman has 159 peer-reviewed publications, and 80 book chapters. He has written nine books, including "The Trauma Manual," now in its third edition.
Dr. Amy Rushing received her medical doctorate at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. She also completed her surgical residency at EVMS and went on to the R Adams Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland for fellowship training in surgical critical care. Following her time at Shock Trauma, Dr. Rushing went on to complete an acute care surgery fellowship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital followed by an appointment to the surgical faculty. She currently resides in Columbus, Ohio where she is an assistant professor of surgery at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Her academic interests include curriculum development in acute care surgery as well as the creation of clinical practice guidelines. She was recently appointed to the Ohio Governor’s Clinical Advisory Group for the development of practice guidelines in general surgery under the Office of Health Transformation.
Dr. Nicole Stassen earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and earned her medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – Rutgers Medical School, in Piscataway New Jersey. She completed a residency in general surgery at the University of Chicago Hospitals. She subsequently completed a fellowship in trauma and critical care at the University of Louisville. Dr. Stassen has spent the majority of her career at the University of Rochester where she is an Associate Professor of Surgery. She also serves as the Director of both the University of Rochester Surgical Critical Care Fellowship and the Kessler Family Burn Trauma Intensive Care Unit as well as the Director of Medical Student Surgical Education. Nationally, Dr. Stassen has served on committees for the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Association for Academic Surgery and the Surgical Infection Society This past January, Dr. Stassen was honored to be named the President-elect of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
Dr. Deborah Stein is a graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine receiving her M.D. in 1997. She completed her Surgery residency training in 2002 serving as Chief Resident in her final year. In 2003 she completed a fellowship in Trauma/Surgical Critical Care from the R Adams Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center. In 2004 she completed her fellowship in Traumatology and received her MPH degree in Injury Control and Health Policy from Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Stein joined the clinical staff of the Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center in 2003. Presently she is an Associate Professor, Tenured in the Department of Surgery and serves as Chief of Trauma and Medical Director, Neurotrauma Critical Care, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center.
Dr. Leonard Weireter obtained his M.D. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo’s General Surgery Residency Program and became certified by the American Board of Surgery. He completed a two year fellowship in Trauma and Critical Care at the University of Maryland/ MIEMSS. He obtained the American Board of Surgery’s Added Qualification Certificate in Surgical Critical Care. Dr. Weireter joined the faculty in the Department of Surgery at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk Virginia as an assistant professor. Dr. Weireter attained fellowship in the American College of Surgeons. He is currently the Arthur and Marie Kirk Family Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Trauma and Critical Care. He is the Medical Director of the Level 1 Trauma Center at the Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
Dr. Weireter has been the chairman of the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. He has also been President of the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. He has chaired the oversight committee responsible for trauma care in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Dr. Weireter is currently the chairman of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma ad hoc Disaster and Mass Casualty Management Committee.