May 2021 Cutting Edge Newsletter

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AAST is pleased to announce Raul Coimbra, MD, PhD; Surgeon-in-Chief, Riverside University Health System Medical Center; Professor of Surgery, Loma Linda University School of Medicine; and Director, Comparative Effectiveness and Clinical Outcomes Research Center (CECORC), as the incoming Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (JTACS).

The Critical Care Committee is starting off 2021 strong with three new journal reviews. The journal reviews are brief reviews of recent important articles relevant to surgical critical care that have been reviewed and approved by the AAST Critical Care Committee.

Read about the history, present, and future of our member's ACS programs! First up is the fellowship program at the Brody School of Medicine at ECU written by Dr. Eric Toschlog of the AAST ACS Committee.

Committee requests should be sent by August 1 each year as committee appointments are announced during the Annual Business Meeting held on Friday afternoon during the Annual Meeting week. For more information, click below!