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Dr. Megan Brenner

Dr. Megan Brenner received her medical degree from Medical College of Virginia/VCU. She completed her General Surgery residency at UCLA Medical Center/David Geffen School of Medicine, her Trauma/Critical Care fellowship at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, and her Vascular Surgery fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Dr. Brenner is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Divisions of Trauma/Critical Care and Vascular Surgery at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center and University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Joe DuBose

Joe DuBose is an Associate Professor of Surgery with the Uniformed Services University and the Director of the United States Air Force Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (CSTARS) at the University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. He attended the University of Virginia Medical School, where he additionally completed General Surgery residency. He has completed additional fellowships in Trauma Surgery, Surgical Critical Care (University of Southern California) and Vascular Surgery (University of Texas – Houston). He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery, Vascular Surgery and Surgical Critical Care and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Critical Care Medicine. He has over 180 published peer review publications. As an active duty military surgeon with the United States Air Force, Dr. DuBose has deployed five times as a trauma surgeon to combat theaters. His primary interest areas include vascular trauma management and outcomes, aortic injury and endovascular resuscitation approaches.

Dr. George Oosthuizen

Dr. Oosthuizen qualified as a medical practitioner from the University of Pretoria in 1989 and specialised in General Surgery in Durban during the years 1996 to 2001. He is on the instructor faculties of various trauma courses, including ATLS, EMST, BTSS, DSTC, and home-grown trauma surgery courses in Israel and Sweden, and he is on the faculty of the annual EVTM congress in Orebro, Sweden. He is the immediate past president of the Trauma Society of South Africa and the former Trauma Program Director of the Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons. He is an honorary senior lecturer in Surgery at the University of KZN as well as the University of Orebro, Sweden. He is currently the Acting Chief of Surgery at Ngwelezana Hospital in Empangeni, affiliated with the University of KwaZulu Natal.

Lauri Handolin

MD, PhD, Associate Professor Traumasurgery, general surgery, orthopeadic traumasurgery

Lauri Handolin has been working in the Helsinki University Hospital Trauma Unit since 2003. His special interest is in supporting the trauma care and trauma surgical skills in nationwide level in Finland. He is co-operating with the Finnish Military in surgical training services and has been deployed in overseas military operations. He has served as a traumasurgical fellow both in Johannesburg General and Baragwanath Academic hospitals in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Tal Hörer

Tal Hörer is an attending vascular surgeon and associate professor of surgery in Örebro University Hospital, Sweden. His main interest is in bleeding control, resuscitation, endovascular and hybrid techniques, research, surgical education, cooperation and good-will doing.

Boris Yuli Kessel

Clinical Assistant Professor, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Haifa, Israel
Director of Trauma Unit, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel
Fellowship in Trauma/Critical Care, Ryder Trauma Center, Miami, USA
Moderator of Civilian and Military ATLS courses, DSTC and Military Advanced Trauma Course
Member of National Trauma and Emergency Surgery Council
Member of National Trauma Council committees on guidelines for Israeli trauma system
Treasurer of Israeli Trauma Society Committee
Outstanding physician, Civil Service Commission of Israel

Junichi Matsumoto, MD, PhD

Trauma and Emergency Radiologist
Chief, division of trauma and emergency radiology,
Assistant professor, department of emergency and critical care medicine, St Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
President, International society of DIRECT (diagnostic and interventional radiology in emergency, critical care, and trauma)
2004-2005 Visiting research fellow, division of emergency and trauma radiology, Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD  

Dr Jonathan Morrison

Dr Jonathan Morrison is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, USA. He attended Edinburgh University for his medical degree and his PhD is from Glasgow University. He undertook most of General and Vascular Surgery training in the West of Scotland, but has deployed multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan in his capacity as a British Army Reservist. He has a keen research interest into endovascular resuscitation and trauma management and surgically he practices as a Trauma and Vascular Surgeon.

Todd E. Rasmussen, MD, FACS Colonel USAF MC

Colonel Todd Rasmussen completed his medical degree at Mayo Medical School in 1993 and surgical training at Wilford Hall Medical Center on Lackland Air Force Base in 1999. He returned to Mayo for vascular surgery training in 1999 after which he was assigned to the National Capital Area just before 9/11/2001. Soon after, he began caring for injured returning from Afghanistan at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. In 2004 Colonel Rasmussen returned to San Antonio and deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom at the Air Force Theater Hospital on Balad Air Base. Following this he initiated a vascular injury and hemorrhage control research and innovation program. He’s completed tours as a surgeon in Iraq and Afghanistan. Colonel Rasmussen has led surgical training missions in Morocco, Pakistan and Russia and his research efforts have resulted in 140 publications, 25 book chapters, 2 textbooks and 4 patents. In 2012 he gave a TED talk on the transformation of military trauma care and its impact on medicine. Colonel Rasmussen served as Deputy Commander of the Institute of Surgical Research from and then directed the larger DoD Combat Casualty Care Research Program at Fort Detrick, Maryland. In 2017 he became Associate Dean for Research at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Service University where he is the Harris B Shumacker Jr., Professor of Surgery. Colonel Rasmussen is a vascular surgeon at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Viktor Reva MD, PhD

Assistant Professor at War Surgery Department, Military Medical Academy, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.Consulting trauma surgeon at Dzhanelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine,certified in vascular and endovascular surgery.

Clinical expertise: trauma surgery, vascular trauma, EVTM, ultrasound (FAST, vascular), elective vascular surgery (mostly minor). Scientific interest: vascular trauma, military surgery/trauma, pre-hospital care, history of surgery.