He is currently professor of surgery and chief of the section of general surgery, where he leads programs providing care for trauma, general surgery, bariatric surgery, emergency general surgery, and surgical critical care patients for the UC Health system. His clinical practice includes trauma, general and acute care surgery, and surgical critical care.  He is past president of the Central Surgical Association and the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Surgeons.  He has served on the executive councils of the Society of University Surgeons, Association for Academic Surgery, and Shock Society as well as committee assignments for the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

Dr. Pritts is currently a governor of the American College of Surgeons as well as vice chair for the Ohio Committee on Trauma. He is the recipient of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine’s Research Service Award, Excellence in Mentoring Award, and Clinical Faculty-to-Faculty Research Mentoring Award. Dr. Pritts’ research seeks to advance care for injured and critically ill patients, with a focus on resuscitation strategies and blood product improvement, and care for the wounded warfighter. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the United States Air Force.

Jeffrey D. Kerby, MD, PhD, FACS is the Brigham Family Endowed Professor and Director of the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Kerby received his medical degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in 1989. He completed his surgical residency at UAB in 1999, along with a postdoctoral research fellowship in 1996.

Following residency, Dr. Kerby served in the United States Air Force as an active duty surgeon until 2003, deploying as a combat trauma surgeon in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2002. Dr. Kerby returned to UAB in 2003. An active researcher, Dr. Kerby served as the principal investigator for the Alabama Resuscitation Center of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium, an NIH funded multicenter research network focused on prehospital clinical trials in trauma and cardiac arrest, from 2005 through 2015. In addition, his division has a robust clinical trials and trauma outcomes effort established through the UAB Center for Injury Sciences and participates as an active investigative site for the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN).

Dr. Kerby also current serves as the Trauma Consultant for the Office of Emergency Medical Services in the Alabama Department of Public Health. He has served on the American College of Surgeons Central Committee on Trauma (COT) since 2016 and was appointed Chair of the COT in 2022.

She clinically practices Trauma Surgery, Acute Care Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care. She has played a pivotal role in the translational study of blood system failure after injury, centrally focused on post-injury platelet biology. Her research program is multi-pronged, covering 1) Translational research to identify novel biology of blood system failure through the lens of platelets, 2) Large observational studies to identify predictors of bad outcomes after injury, and 3) Clinical trials investigating therapeutics and resuscitation strategies for injured patients. Her research program has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the American College of Surgeons, the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the UCSF School of Medicine Irene Perstein Award, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. In 2024, Dr. Kornblith became the Director of Research for the UCSF School of Medicine Vice Dean’s Office at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, where she serves and represents approximately 300 investigators and 800 research staff. In 2025, Dr. Kornblith was appointed the Elsbach-Richards Endowed Chair in Surgery I at UCSF.

Dr. Staudenmayer has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and serves on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals. Her scholarship and policy work focus on improving outcomes for vulnerable and underserved populations, including the elderly, and on advancing the resilience and effectiveness of trauma systems of care. She has been at the forefront of defining new concepts such as hospital capacity strain and health system readiness, bridging cutting-edge research with practical strategies for national preparedness.

She earned her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, completed general surgery residency at Parkland Hospital, and conducted NIH T32-funded research at the University of Washington before pursuing fellowship training in trauma and surgical critical care at San Francisco General Hospital. Board-certified in General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, and Clinical Informatics, Dr. Staudenmayer brings a rare combination of clinical, systems, and data-driven expertise. She is widely recognized as a thought leader driving innovation at the intersection of surgery, health systems, and policy, and continues to mentor the next generation of surgical leaders.

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