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Design For Implementation Conference to Spotlight the Plight of Rural Trauma Systems and Teams
The demands on rural providers and the unique challenges of rural trauma systems will be the topic of discussion during a panel discussion: “Clinical Guidance Access and Applicability: The Rural Provider’s Experience” at the Design for Implementation Conference,...
Dallas Morning News Series Sheds Light on the Crisis of Traumatic Injury
A series of articles to be published in the Dallas Morning News beginning today, November 28, 2023, illuminates the public health crisis that trauma surgeons have long lived and decried: the thousands of Americans dying from uncontrolled bleeding, when their deaths...
Dr. Molly Jarman Collaborates with CNTR in Quest to Reduce Disparities
When she was a college student, Molly Jarman saw first-hand how lack of access to emergency care affects those who live in rural America. When her roommate’s father was injured in a car crash in a small North Carolina town, the closest emergency room was two hours...
All Trauma Patients Deserve Evidence-Based Care: It’s Time to Deliver
Outside of well-funded, urban trauma centers, too many critically injured patients die needlessly or suffer excessive disability following delayed or substandard care. Effective development and equitable and rapid dissemination of clinical practice guidelines is...
CNTR Receives DoD Contract to Integrate the National Trauma Research Repository into FITBIR
With a newly awarded contract from the US Department of Defense’s (DOD) Combat Casualty Care Research Program (CCCRP), the Coalition for National Trauma Research will curate, harmonize and upload a tranche of high-quality legacy data into the National Trauma Research...
CNTR Once Again Earns Highest Marks for Nonprofit Transparency
The Coalition for National Trauma Research once again earned Guidestar's Platinum Seal for 2023. Guidestar, now collaborating with Foundation Center as Candid, is a trusted, third-party verifier of nonprofit excellence. Candid is an international organization that...
Lillibridge Healthcare Services Donates to CNTR on National Doctor’s Day
To celebrate their healthcare tenants on National Doctor's Day, medical real estate operating and leasing firm Lillibridge Healthcare Services (LHS) made a generous $20,000 donation to the Coalition for National Trauma Research today. March 30th is Doctors’ Day, an...
Summit Addressing Health Disparities in Trauma Awarded Funding from AHRQ
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded funding for a CNTR conference, titled Summit on the Advancement of Focused Equity Research in Trauma (SAFER-Trauma). The goal of the summit is to help the trauma research community identify and characterize...
CNTR Design for Implementation Conference Awarded AHRQ Funding
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) last week awarded funding to CNTR to conduct a conference series aimed at setting an action plan to speed evidence-based trauma care from study result to clinical practice. The Design for Implementation: Trauma...
JTACS Publishes Papers from the 2022 VTE Consensus Conference
Outcomes from CNTR's 2022 Consensus Conference to Implement Optimal VTE Prophylaxis in Trauma are published in several manuscripts included in the March 2023 issue of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. The conference, held last May at the American College...
ACS Brief Highlights CNTR’s National Trauma Research Action Plan and Access to Data
In the February 21, 2023 issue of the ACS Brief, the American College of Surgeons shared information about the National Trauma Research Action Plan (NTRAP) that CNTR is now wrapping up, after more than four years of effort. The ACS Committee on Trauma is a core member...
MetroHealth Trauma Research Institute of Cleveland Seeks Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Date: September 2022 Title: Postdoctoral Health Services Researcher or Data Scientist Department: Surgery, Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Burns, and Acute Care Surgery Location: MetroHealth Medical Center Supervisor: Jeffrey A. Claridge, MD, MS Mentor: Vanessa...
AC Forum Joins CNTR as an Affiliate Member
CNTR is pleased to welcome the Anticoagulation Forum (AC Forum) as its latest Affiliate member. A 14,000-member organization that includes physicians, nurses and pharmacists supporting patients in anticoagulation clinics across the country, the AC Forum mission is to...
Watch a Recorded NTRAP Webinar to Learn More About the Results, What Data is Available and How to Request Data
In this series of webinars, NTRAP Panel Leaders discuss the main results of their Delphi Surveys and offer thoughts on next steps and what they see as potential additional inquiries that might be made of the data. Each webinar ends with a brief run-through of the...
Q&A with CNTR Collaborator Dr. Margaret Schwarze
Margaret L. (Gretchen) Schwarze, MD, MPP, FACS Associate Professor of Surgery Morgridge Endowed Professor of Vascular Surgery Department of Surgery | University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Dr. Gretchen Schwarze is a recent recipient of an R01...