Skip to main content

  • #AAST2024

    83rd Annual Meeting of AAST and Clinical Congress of Acute Care Surgery

    1,771

    Total attendees both virtually and in-person!

    Congratulations to AAST’sScholarship Winners

    Melike Harfouche, MD, MPH
    University of Maryland School of Medicine

    "Evaluation of Hemorrhage Control Techniques in Hemodynamically Unstable Pelvic Fractures: A Feasibility Study"

    Lacy LaGrone, MD, MPH

    Medical Center of the Rockies

    "Trauma Clinical Guidance Optimized for the End-User: A Mixed-Methods, Observational and Consensus-Building Intervention of, and by, the Injury Community"

    Grace Martin Nizolek, MD

    Washington University in St Louis

    "Determining the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury and Hemorrhagic Shock on the Cerebral Vascular Endothelium"

    20forTwenty Scholarship Recipients

    Brad Chernock, MD

    Cameron Colbert, MD

    Anthony DeSantis, MD

    Jacob Dougherty, BS

    Andrew Fisher, MD

    Aaron Gilani, MD, MBA

    Kathleen Harnois, MD

    Adam Gutierrez, MD
    Patrick Johnson, MD, MPH
    Mike Johnston, MD
    Shelbie Waddle, DO, MS
    Thomas Landes, BS
    Connor Magura, MD
    MAJ Max Marsden, MBBS, BS

    Arslan Mohamed, BS
    Daud Lodin, MD, MPH
    Sergio Navarro, MD, MBA
    Alexander Ordoobadi, MD
    Lindsey Peterson, MD
    Benjamin Pomy, MD
    Michael Poulson, MD, MPH
    Maxwell Presser, MD, MPH

    Adair Powers, BA
    William Rice, BS
    Troy Ruff, MD
    Caitlyn Waldrop, MD
    Michael Weykamp, MD
    Jared Wohlgemut, MBChB, MS
    Emma Worthington, MD
    Michael Bright, MD

    AAST/AWS 2024 Scholarship Winner

    Morgan Hopp

    2024 Always Remember Military Scholarship Winners

    Emily Biard
    Ashlet Flinn Patterson
    Jeffrey Oury

    Experience AAST Auction

    Thank you to all of this year’s Auction donors, participants and Research and Education Fund donors! 

    $150,429 was raised at this year’s meeting, including the $72,156 raised at the AAST auction!

    Thank you to this year’s auction item donors and congratulations to the below auction item winners!

    Dr. Adrian Maung

    Dr. Alex Schwed

    Dr. Amy Kwok

    Dr. Benjamin Davis

    Dr. Chris Decker

    Dr. Clay Burlew

    Dr. David Efron

    Dr. Douglas Pokorny

    Dr. John Agapian

    Dr. Joseph DuBose

    Dr. Joshua Brown
    Dr. Karen Brasel
    Dr. Kimberly Davis

    Dr. Marc de Moya

    Dr. Maxwell Braverman
    Dr. Nicole Stassen
    Dr. Patricia Ayoung-Chee

    Dr. Rolando Gerardo Cruz
    Dr. Ronald Stewart
    Ms. Sharon Gautschy
    Dr. Travis Polk
    Dr. William Sherman

    AAST Pipeline Program

    9 High School students participated in a program during the 83rd Annual Meeting of AAST and Clinical Congress of Acute Care Surgery. The students had a full day of activities including:

    • Leadership Speed Networking Panel
    • Brainstorming Session on Research Development
    • Stop the Bleed Overview with Hands-On Training
    • Surgical Device Demonstrations by Exhibitors
    • Skills Session: Timed Wound Packing, Suturing, Tourniquet Application, and Rib Block Challenges
    • Dissection Lab Experience

    Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open

    TSACO Impact Factor = 2.2

    206 original research, reviews, brief reports, commentaries, editorials and challenges in Acute Care Surgery have published.

    A new patient series was started in 2024.

    The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

    JTACS Impact Factor = 3.0

    “What you need to know” published 24 articles.

    Check out the 24 hottest articles of 2024 on Jtrauma.com (starting on December 23rd!)

    New AAST Fellows

    Paul Thomas Albini, MD
    Jason Anthony Brocker, MD
    Joshua Burton Brown, MD
    Mark David Buzzelli, MD

    Daniel Cox, MD
    Eleanor Curtis, MPVM, MD
    Erik DeSoucy, DO
    Lauren Marie Dudas, MD
    Ryan P. Dumas, MD
    Justin E Dvorak, MD
    Tanya Egodage, MD

    Jennifer Jean Freeman, MD, MPH

    Nicole Marie Garcia, MD
    Travis Gerlach, MD
    Anna Goldenberg-Sandau, MD
    John Christopher Graybill, MD
    Lynn Gries, MD
    Christopher A Guidry, MD
    Jeremy Jon Johnson,    MD
    Matthew Kaminsky, MD
    Susan Kartiko, MD

    Lisa M. Kodadek, MD
    Anna Liveris, MD

    John Maddox, MD
    Allison McNickle, MD
    Richard Miskimins, MD
    Jennifer Mooney, MD
    Alexis Marika Moren, MD, MPH
    Jessica Naiditch, MD
    Kathleen O'Connell, MD
    Carlos Hugo Palacio-Lascano, MD
    Urmil Pandya, MD
    Myung Soo Park, MD

    Purvi P Patel, MD

    John K Petty, MD
    Michal Radomski, MS, MD
    Rachel Rodriguez, MS, MD
    Samuel Wade Ross, MD, MPH
    John M. Ruggero, MD
    Katie White Russell, MD
    Valerie G. Sams MD

    John W. Scott, MD, MPH
    Fariha Sheikh, MD
    Carrie Valdez, MD
    Michael Vella, MD
    Nicole Lena Werner, MD

    New International Fellows

    Jeremy Ming Hsu, MBBS

    Junsik Kwon, MD

    Chien-Hung Liao, MD

    Ryo Yamamoto, MD

    Carlos Augusto Metidieri Menegozzo, MD

    New Associate Members

    Residents

    Emily W Baird, MD
    David Bassa, MD
    Jennifer Brewer, MD
    Cameron Colbert, MD
    Jaclyn Corso, MD
    Morgan Evans, MD
    Elise Eleanor Hill Fannon, MD
    Lauren Teresa Gallagher, MD

    Yasmin Gore, MD
    Kathleen Harnois, MD
    Zachary Cole Holley, MD
    Patrick Johnson, MD
    Mary Junak, MD
    Mary Suhyun Kim, MD
    Vitaley Kovalev, MD
    Chelsea Lee, MD

    Lindsey Jean Loss, MD
    Nicole Lunardi, MD
    Nicole Brittany Lyons, MD
    William Ian McKinley, MD
    Emily Rady, MD
    Troy Ruff, MD
    Brittany Sadoma, MD
    Gabriel Scally, MD

    Aricia Shen, MD
    Gena Victoria Topper, MD
    Shelbie D Waddle, MD
    Gerald Wang, MD
    Christine Wu, MD
    Katherine Mengfei Wu, MD
    James Andrew Zebley, MD
    Dennis Jialin Zheng, MD
    Cheryl K Zogg, MD

    In-Training Fellows

    Mattie Arseneaux, MD
    Ted Chung, MD
    Natalie Atkinson Drucker, MD

    Najiha Farooqi, MD
    Matthew Fleming, MD
    Ghassan Jawad, MD

    Sheliza Kabani, MD
    Anthony Philip Kronfli, MD
    Mohamed Mohamed, MD

    Ricardo Rendel, MD
    Tandis Soltani, MD
    Simeng Wang, MD

    Jr. Faculty

    Rami Saed Al-Aref, MD
    Andrew James    Benjamin, MD
    Elliot Sumner Bishop, MD
    Maxwell Allen Braverman, MD

    Tatiana Carla Pereira Cardenas, MD

    Michael Cline, MD
    Joanna Wolf Etra, MD
    Gabriel Patrick Froula, MD
    Jacob Hessey, MD

    Joy Hughes, MD

    Jocelyn Hunter, MD
    Mary A Hunter, MD
    Chinenye Iwuchukwu, MD
    Savannah Christine Kipfer, MD
    Vishal Kumar, MD

    Mary Noory, MD

    Lori Rhodes, MD
    Catherine Sharoky, MD
    Kyle Stigall, MD
    Akihiro Sugiyama, MD
    Lauryn Alley Ullrich, MD
    Ramesh Vaidyanathan, MD
    Bardiya Zangbar, MD

    5th Annual Virtual Job Fair 

    Thank you to everyone involved in making the 5th Annual Virtual Job Fair the most successful one yet! This year we had 11 recruiters and over 100 attendees!

    Acute Care Surgery

    09  Site Visits Completed - 5 virtual; 4 in-person

    03  New Programs Approved for a total of 33 Programs

    80  Two-year ACS Fellowship positions available

    68  Fellows in their second/ACS year of the fellowship

    77  Fellows in their first/SCC year of the fellowship

    66  Fellows graduated the fellowship program on July 31st

    Follow AAST

    (800) 789-4006

    aast@aast.org

Privacy Policy:

 

By using this site, you agree to the Privacy Policy and acknowledge the use of cookies to store information, which may be essential to making our site work properly or enhancing user experience.