NTI Trauma Blog
Ellen MacKenzie Earns Distinguished Professorship at JHU
July 20, 2017--Trauma expert Ellen MacKenzie, PhD, was named Johns Hopkins University’s 30th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor this month. Dr. MacKenzie is a past NTI board member and currently co-investigator on an NTI-managed study of pre-hospital death. Leading the...
read moreUK Study Identifies Early Immune System Changes following Trauma
July 19, 2017--A study conducted by researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK and published in PLOS Medicine aimed to discover the earliest changes to the immune system following a traumatic injury. Called the "Golden Hour" study, the four-year effort...
read moreCNTR Investigation of Pre-Hospital Deaths Gets Underway
Funded with a $4 million Department of Defense grant, the Multi-Institutional Multidisciplinary Injury Mortality Investigation in the Civilian Pre-Hospital Environment (MIMIC)--a study proposed by the Coalition for National Trauma Research--is now underway. Through a...
read moreMulti-Center Investigation of Pulmonary Embolism to be Funded by Defense Research Program
Under the auspices of the Coalition for National Trauma Research (of which, NTI is a member), the CLOTT group (Coalition of Leaders in Thromboembolism) received a grant from the Defense Medical Research and Development Program to conduct a new study: "The Pathogenesis...
read moreDuring Trauma Awareness Month: A Program to Stop the Bleeding
Dr. Ronald Stewart, Chair of the Department of Surgery at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio, has an audacious goal: to teach 200 million people a simple approach to stop life-threatening bleeding. As Chair of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on...
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