CNTR Blog
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...
Attend an 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 will 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 will end with a brief run-through of...
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...
CNTR Study Examining Use of Pathogen Reduced Plasma in Resuscitation of Patients with Severe Burns Begins Enrollment
In a CNTR-managed clinical trial that’s now beginning to enroll patients, Leopoldo Cancio, MD, burn surgeon and the Director of the U.S. Army Burn Center, is examining the use of INTERCEPT-treated pathogen-reduced plasma (IPRP) in the resuscitation of burned patients....
KeriCure Medical taps CNTR to Manage Clinical Trial of Spray-On Wound Dressing
With a $50,000 Commercialization Grant from the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC), biotechnology company KeriCure Medical has partnered with CNTR in developing a study protocol and proposal for a multi-center clinical trial for the company’s Field Shield...
Research Priorities Published & NTRAP Project Data Now Available for Secondary Analyses
With the completion of a set of Delphi gap analyses conducted as part of the National Trauma Research Action Plan (NTRAP) project, trauma investigators are encouraged to review and consider the priorities established in each of 11 focus areas when proposing new...
In an article published in the August 18, 2022 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Juan Herrera-Escobar and Jeffrey Schneider argue that traumatic injury should be recategorized as a chronic condition, given the long-term, often life-altering,...
UT Health Houston Seeks Post-Doctoral Candidates for T32 Trauma Research Fellowships
Institutional Information: Center for Translational Injury Research (CeTIR) and the Department of Surgery, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Address: 6410 Fannin St. Suite 1100, Houston, TX 77030...
Nevada Trauma Surgeon Offers Perspective on Firearm Injury and Death
In a July 1, 2022 article--three days before the Fourth of July holiday would see two mass shootings--trauma surgeon Deborah Kuhls authored an article on firearm injury for the University of Nevada News Center. Dr. Kuhls, chief of critical care at the Kirk Kerkorian...
