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Trauma Surgeons



Richard Mullins, MD · Robert Goldman, MD · Donald Trunkey, MD · John Mayberry, MD · Martin Schreiber, MD

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Orthopaedic,Pediatric and Plastic Surgery


Donald D. Trunkey,MD

Former Chair, Department of Surgery

Donald D. Trunkey,MD

Donald D. Trunkey, MD, Professor and past Chair of the Department of Surgery at Oregon Health Sciences University. Dr. Trunkey is regarded as an internationally renowned trauma surgeon, and is one of the first surgeons to incorporate the concepts of preventable death methods and evidence-based practice in support of trauma systems. He shares his expertise and vast experience in research, education and trauma care with OHSU staff and patients by remaining active on the trauma call schedule. He remains an advocate for improved trauma care throughout Oregon and the United States.

Dr. Trunkey was born and raised in farm country in Eastern Washington: the Palouse Country. Early work included farm work, mining, hod carrying, carpentry, sheet rocking and building contracting. He attended Washington State University for his undergraduate degree and the University of Washington Medical School. Uncertain about medicine or surgery as a career, he chose to do a rotating internship with Dr. Bert Dunphy at the University of Oregon. After one month on the surgical service, there was no question of what career to pursue. Following his internship, he spent two years in the United States Army as a general medical officer in Germany.

Upon completion of his military duties, he rejoined Dr. Dunphy at the University of California, San Francisco, where his general surgery training was completed. He spent one year in the Organ Preservation Laboratory with Dr. Folkert Belzer. Following his general surgery training, he spent an additional year with Dr. Tom Shires at Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, where he was involved in a National Institutes of Health special fellowship in trauma. Following completion of his fellowship, he returned to the University of California, San Francisco, where he became very involved in the care of trauma patients. He was Chief of the Burn Center at San Francisco General Hospital and also had an extensive interest in elective vascular surgery and non-cardiac thoracic surgery. He established a laboratory to study mechanisms of shock at the cellular level with a special interest in myocardial performance following shock, lung injury, and cellular immune mechanisms following injury. In 1978, he became Chief of Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital and in April 1986, he assumed the Chair at Oregon Health Sciences University Department of Surgery. His intent is to build a general surgery residency based on all the primary components of general surgery. His own special interest remains trauma surgery.

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Robert Goldman, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery

Bob Goldman, M.D.

Robert Goldman, MD, is Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, at Oregon Health Sciences University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Carleton College with a degree in physics. His research interests include focus on the advanced pathophysiology of critical care and trauma surgery. Dr. Goldman received his MD from Northwestern University. During medical school, Dr. Goldman spent one year working with Dr. Thomas J. Fogarty in the Forgarty Research Laboratories (California), designing and developing new surgical devices and conducting basic research projects.

Dr. Goldman completed his surgical residency at Oregon Health Sciences University in 1995, and then served as a Critical Care Fellow before joining the OHSU faculty. He has received awards for best science papers, including “Nitrosothiols and the Pathophysiology of Septic Shock” and “In Vivo Hemodynamic Effects of Nitrolosated Plasma Proteins.” Dr. Goldman was named one of the top ten residents at OHSU in 1997 and received the Department of Surgery Resident Teaching Award in 1996.

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Richard Mullins, MD

Professor of Surgery, Director of Trauma Services

Richard Mullins, MD

Richard J. Mullins, M.D. is a Professor in the Department of Surgery and has been the Medical Director of the Trauma Service at OHSU since January 1, 1989. Dr Mullins has been since 1992 the principal investigator of a grant awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate whether trauma systems in Oregon have been effective health care policy. Working with co-authors at OHSU, and other universities, who constitute the Rural Trauma Study Group, multiple papers have been published in peer review journals reporting on the results of the analyses performed using data collected with the CDC grant. In July 1998 Dr Mullins was the principal organizer of a consensus conference which examined the data supporting the effectiveness of trauma systems in North America. Held at the Skamania Lodge in the Columbia River Gorge, the conference has been designated the Skamania Conference on Trauma Systems. The results of the conference were published as multiple manuscripts in a special supplement of the Journal of Trauma, September, 1999.

Dr Mullins was born and raised in Port Huron, Michigan. Following graduation from Loyola University, Chicago, where he lettered in Track and Field, he attended Tufts University Medical School, graduating in 1974. He was a surgery resident at OHSU from 1974 to 1980, except for one research year spent at Detroit Receiving Hospital working in the Department of Surgery of Wayne State University. For two years, 1980 to 1982, Dr Mullins was a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Albany Medical Center, studying physiology. From 1982 to 1983 Dr Mullins was the J. D. Martin Fellow on Trauma Service at the Grady Hospital, Atlanta Georgia. Dr Mullins's first academic appointment was for six years at the University of Louisville. Dr Mullins is a commander in the United States Navy Reserve.

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John Mayberry, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery

Dr. John Mayberry

John Mayberry, MD, is Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, at Oregon Health Sciences University. His special research interests include abdominal compartment syndrome and percutaneous tracheostomy.

Dr. Mayberry originally hails from Montana. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1982 and received his MD from OHSU in 1986. He completed his General Surgery residency at OHSU in 1992, including a year of research in Vascular Surgery. He was also the Trauma/Surgical Critical Care Fellow at OHSU (1995-6). Dr. Mayberry has received numerous teaching awards and was twice named surgical resident of the year. His active military duty includes service as Chief of Surgery at 5th Air Transportable Hospital at Cairo West AFB, Egypt, during Operation Restore Hope (1993) as well as ICU Medical Director (1993-4) and Chief of Surgery (1994-5) at Minot AFB Regional Hospital, Minot, ND.

Dr. Mayberry works closely with the OHSU staff and is known for his dedication to training medical, nursing and paramedic students.

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Martin Schreiber, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Surgery

Dr. Martin Schreiber

Dr. Schreiber is currently the Director of Surgical Critical Care at Oregon Health & Science University. His research interests include modulation of coagulation in the trauma patient, prevention of organ failure and the resuscitation of shock. He has received 4 federally awarded grants to pursue these interests.

Dr. Schreiber completed his Surgical residency and Trauma and Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle. He then served for 4 years in the US Army at William Beaumont Army Medical Center as the Chief of Trauma and Critical Care. Following this time period, he spent 2 years at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas as the Trauma Medical Director at Ben Taub General Hospital.


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