Evidence to Practice Committee

CNTR’s Evidence to Practice Committee is charged with the following immediate objectives:

• For existing trauma clinical guidance (constituting materials informed by evidence, or when absent, expert clinical practice, intended to inform bedside care of the patient – e.g., protocols, algorithms, clinical practice guidelines) for the care of injury/burn, acute care surgery, and surgical critical care patients to develop a central repository, that is synergistic rather than competitive to other repositories, inclusive of pdfs and other resources (e.g., decision support tools), and can be accessed free of charge / without registration, and to establish a plan for the maintenance of and updating of this repository.  
• For new guidance, to coordinate topic selection among societies to ensure no redundancy.
• For new guidance, to identify the roles of each organization, and, if and where tasks will be divided versus shared, to optimize human resource utilization and eliminate redundancy.
• To align on longer term goals to improve the effectiveness of injury/burn, acute care surgery, and surgical critical care clinical guidance (e.g., include patient voice / trauma informed care principles; grow rural, pediatric, and subspecialty authorship representation; improve relevance across resource settings; ensure AI readiness; develop active dissemination strategies and inclusive/complementary educational bundles; etc.).

The delegates commit to the following principles, which the leadership has determined will form the foundation of this collaborative:

• To be maximally inclusive – including all relevant key stakeholders.
• To engage in a consensus-driven decision-making process centered on achieving the best outcome for patients.
• To actively work to make cooperation and communication a value.
• To have a bias for action centered on doing the right thing for the patient.
• To honor the importance of the objective, and each others’ time, by ensuring that the feasibility and sustainability are centered at every step.

The leadership recognizes this initiative will require the three “T’s” and asks delegates to commit to: Talk, Tolerance, and Time.

Members of the Committee

AAST [AAST Guidelines]
Lacey LaGrone, MD, MPH, MA
UCHealth

Eileen M. Bulger, MD
University of Washington (UW) Medicine

Todd Costantini, MD
University of Minnesota

ACS-COT [ACS TQP Best Practices Guidelines]
Bryce Robinson, MD, MS
University of Washington (UW) Medicine

Babak Sarani, MD
George Washington University School of Medicine

EAST [EAST Practice Management Guidelines]
Lisa Kodadek, MD
Yale New Haven/Yale School of Medicine

Ben L. Zarzaur, MD, MPH
University of Wisconsin-Madison

ABA [Burn Care Quality Platform]
Laura S. Johnson, MD
Walter L. Ingram Burn Center, Grady Memorial Hospital

Victoria Miles, MD, BS, EMTP
University Medical Center New Orleans

ATS [ATS Position Statements]
Christopher Michetti, MD
University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center

OTA [OTA Evidence-Based Medicine Resource List]
Joseph Thomas Patterson, MD
Keck Medicine of USC

ACS Military Health System Strategic Partnership
Brian J. Eastridge, MD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHealth San Antonio)

STN [STN Position Pages]
Linda Reinhart, MSN, RN, CNS, CCRN, TCRN
Grand View Health

ASA [ASA Statements and Practice Parameters]
Tomas Drabek, MD, PhD, FASA
University of Pittsburgh/UPMC Presbyterian Hospital

Philipp Lirk, MD, MSC, PhD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)

CWIS [Chest Injury International Database]
Sebastian D. Schubl, MD
University of California Irvine

Nina Cohen, MD
West Virginia University

WTA [WTA Algorithms]
Jennifer L. Hartwell , MD, FACS
University of Kansas Medical Center

Martin Zielenski, MD, FACS
Baylor College of Medicine

ACEP [ACEP Clinical Guidelines]
Jonathan Fisher, MD, MPH
ED, American College of Emergency Physicians

NAEMT [EMS Research]
Capt. Rommie L. Duckworth, MPA, LP, EFO, FO
Fire Chief of the Ridgefield Fire Department

NASEMSO [NASEMSO Clinical & Evidence-Based Guidelines]
Margaret Wogahn, CHES
Wisconsin Department of Health Services

PTS [PTS Guidelines Hub]
Patricia Morrell, MHA, BSN, RN-BC
Yale New Haven Health – Children’s Hospital

John K. Petty, MD, MS
Atrium Health \ Brenner Children’s Hospital

SCCM [SCCM Guidelines]
Susan Evans, MD, MBA
Atrium Health

John Tierney, MD

TCAA
Ashley Britton Christmas, MD
Atrium Health

Board Liaison: Rachael Callcut, MD, MSPH