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Advisory Council

The Advisory Council of the Coalition for National Trauma Research includes one representative of each Stakeholder member organization along with at least one designee from the Board of Directors. Members of the Advisory Council serve a one-year term.

Mitchell Cohen, MD

Mitchell Cohen, MD

Western Trauma Association Representative

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Mitchell Cohen is Professor and Vice Chair of Surgery at the University of Colorado. Clinically he is an active Trauma, General and Acute Care Surgeon as well as a busy Intensivist. Dr. Cohen has an active NIH- and DoD-funded basic and translational science research group, which studies coagulation and inflammation perturbations after injury. Specifically, his lab continues to examine the mechanisms of traumatic coagulopathy and mediators of protein C system activation after trauma.

In addition, the Cohen research group transnationally studies similar topics through multiple clinical characterization and interventional trials aimed at elucidating the post trauma coagulation milieu and optimal resuscitation and treatment. The Cohen group has an active interest in in silico data and model driven approaches to modeling of biological and physiologic systems. His group has done extensive work on the use of Big Data, machine learning and artificial intelligence toward improving personalized medicine and outcomes. His work includes multi scale modeling projects ranging from coagulation and endothelial biology to causal inference prediction of patient physiologic state and trajectory.

Taken together, Dr. Cohen’s work seeks to understand the biological and physiological phenotypic milieu after any threat or injury towardsthe goal of identifying patient phenotypes and trajectories and providing real time dynamic individualized medical countermeasures.

Vicki Moran, PhD, RN

Vicki Moran, PhD, RN

Society of Trauma Nurses Representative

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Vicki Moran, PhD, RN, is the Trauma Research Coordinator for SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital, in St. Louis, Missouri. She is an associate professor in the Trudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing at Saint Louis University. She has more than 25 years’ experience in the care of trauma and critically ill patients. Dr. Moran received her BSN, MSN/MPH, and PhD from Saint Louis University. Her research interests include trauma and nursing education. She has published numerous articles and has spoken nationally on trauma related research topics. She is currently involved in the Society of Trauma Nurses on TraumaCon, the annual conference planning committee, and as chair of the Society’s research committee.

Anna Newcomb, PhD

Anna Newcomb, PhD

American Trauma Society Representative

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Anna Newcomb is the Trauma Research Manager at Inova in Northern Virginia. While a trauma clinical social worker in the 1990s, she initiated a program that would become the American Trauma Society’s (ATS) Trauma Survivors Network. After receiving her PhD in Health Services Research from Johns Hopkins, she has focused her research on hospital program implementation, interventions addressing trauma patient and family wellbeing, and communication training. Dr. Newcomb is the President of the ATS.
Brian Eastridge, MD

Brian Eastridge, MD

Military Health System Strategic Partnership with ACS Representative

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Dr. Eastridge is a trauma surgeon at UT San Antonio Health.

Saam Morshed, MD

Saam Morshed, MD

Orthopedic Trauma Association Representative

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Dr. Morshed is Director of the Clinical Research Center at the UCSF/Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Orthopaedic Trauma Institute and an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He also serves as Co-Director of the Global Research Initiative of the Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology (IGOT) at UCSF, which coordinates sustainable and equity-based education and research programs with partnering institutions in the developing world.

As an Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellow, he received a Master’s of Public Health and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California Berkeley. Prior to returning to UCSF to join the faculty in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, he completed subspecialty training in orthopaedic trauma at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. His clinical practice is focused on skeletal trauma, surgery of the pelvis and acetabulum, and problem fractures including mal-unions and non-unions. He serves at Co-director of the UCSF orthopaedic trauma fellowship.

Dr. Morshed’s research interests include treatment of major extremity trauma, and he leads several multicenter clinical trials as a Major Extremity Trauma and Rehabilitation Consortium principal investigator. He has served or led numerous professional society committees for the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Orthopaedic Research Society, and currently chairs the Strategic Research Initiatives Committee for the Orthopedic Trauma Association.

He completed both medical school and orthopaedic residency at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

Combining the firepower of societies that represent a wide variety of surgical disciplines and other care groups across the trauma continuum can help us secure a national home for trauma research.

Rosemary Kozar, MD FACS

Chair, CNTR Scientific Advisory Committee