Listen to the EAST Traumacast, posted March 8, 2019, to learn about how the National Trauma Institute and the Coalition for National Trauma Research partner with trauma investigators to bring large-scale studies to fruition. Drs. Don Jenkins, Joe Dubose and Eileen Bulger discuss important projects currently being coordinated by NTI and CNTR including the National Trauma Research Repository and the National Trauma Research Action Plan.
Study Finds a Reduction in Injury Deaths Could Raise Life Expectancy by 1.5 Years
A study published August 30, 2017 in Population Health Metrics explores why the U.S. lags behind other developed countries in continuing improvements to public health. Despite increasing by more than 30 years over the last century, the average lifespan in the U.S....
In Exclusive Interview, New CCCRP Director Eyes the Trauma Research Horizon
About a month into his new position as director of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command’s Combat Casualty Care Research Program (CCCRP), Col. Michael Davis is settling into the role. Like his predecessor, Col. Todd Rasmussen, he is looking to advance...
New Research Shows Promise for Spinal Chord Injury Repair
A study published in the Frontiers of Neurology provides promise for those with spinal chord injuries. Surgeons have learned how to reconnect sensory neurons to the spinal chord after traumatic injury, and this new research from a team at King's College London has...
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...
UK 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...
CNTR 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...
Multi-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)Â received a grant from the Defense Medical Research and Development Program to conduct a new study: "The Pathogenesis...
During 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...
Setting the Agenda and Building Coalitions: The National Trauma Institute and the Coalition for National Trauma Research – Podcast #40 – EP
An interview with Dr. Donald Jenkins, one of the leading figures behind the National Trauma Institute (NTI) and the newly created Coalition for National Trauma Research (CNTR). Dr. Jenkins discusses the history, formation, mission, and future of these two...
Trauma News Interview with Stewart and Winchell Captures Gist of Stakeholder Meeting on Zero Preventable Deaths
Suggesting that the messaging surrounding the development of a national trauma system should shift from the traditional public health realm to the realm of national security, Dr. Ronald Stewart and Dr. Robert Winchell elaborated on the outcomes of the April meeting of...