Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery
The Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery is one of the largest divisions within the Department of Surgery. It is comprised of a team of 28 dedicated faculty in support of OHSU as a Level 1 trauma center. Our trauma surgeons provide expert care to the most seriously injured patients in the state, instruct future generations of trauma surgeons, and conduct research into improving and advancing the treatment of trauma patients. Its surgical critical care fellowship program sponsors four fellows each year.
Martin Schreiber, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.C.C.M., is the Head for Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery. He is also the Director for the new Donald D. Trunkey Center for Civilian and Combat Casualty Care.
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Mailing Address
Oregon Health & Science University
3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road
Mail Code: L611
Portland, OR 97239
Campus Location
Baird Hall 3038
Academic Office
(503) 494-5300
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Our work
OHSU is a Level I trauma center. This designation requires the OHSU Trauma Service to provide expert care to the most seriously injured patients in the state, instruct future generations of trauma surgeons, and conduct research into improving and advancing the treatment of trauma patients.
Learn about the OHSU Trauma Center
Along with their extremely capable colleagues in Emergency Medicine, Radiology, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and Plastic Surgery, OHSU's trauma surgeons treat more than 2600 trauma patients each year; many of them seriously injured, and hundreds of them transferred from the state's Level II, III and IV trauma centers via Life Flight helicopter or ground ambulance. As a result, several studies conducted by the Rural Trauma Study Group - led by Dr. Richard Mullins and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - have found that the odds of death for injured Oregonians have declined significantly, especially among brain-injured patients.
OHSU is also an academic center dedicated to the education of future health care professionals, and the Trauma Service proudly follows in this tradition of teaching. Every two months, two chief residents from the General Surgery service are appointed to the Trauma Service where they learn the techniques of trauma surgery, present complex cases at Trauma Conference every week and continue to treat discharged patients in the Trauma Clinic.
The Trauma Service also sponsors four surgical critical care fellows each year who conduct research, act as consultants to various services and spend some time in out-of-state programs to discover different perspectives concerning the care of trauma patients. These fellows have consistently become trauma and surgical critical care leaders around the nation. The Trauma Service staff works closely with each student, resident and fellow in order to instill a solid understanding of the principles of trauma care in future surgeons.
The OHSU Trauma Service houses the Trauma Research Institute of Oregon (TRIO). This is a pioneering research organization that focuses on critical topics relative to improving the care of trauma patients not just at OHSU but around the world. TRIO researchers are leaders in resuscitation, hemorrhage control, novel blood product, rib fracture and outcomes research. They have received support from the NIH, CDC, Department of Defense, private industry and local sources to perform this research.
For the last two decades, the OHSU Trauma Service has served Oregon as a center of excellence for the care of seriously injured patients, a university committed to teaching future trauma surgeons and an institute focused on paving the way to the future. The Trauma Service continues to serve as an exemplary Level I trauma center and is determined to carry out this role for decades to come.
Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program
Our Surgical Critical Care fellowship is composed of a one-year training program housed at the only University-based quaternary medical center in Oregon which is also one of two Level I trauma centers in Portland. Fellowship rotations are designed to provide exposure to a broad range of critically injured and critically ill patients. We offer four fellowships each year, with an optional second year.
Our Faculty
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- Amy Biedenbach, M.P.A.S., P.A.-C.
- Physician Assistant
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- Joshua Bowley, M.H.Sc., P.A.-C.
- Physician Assistant
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- Karen J. Brasel, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S.
- Professor of Surgery
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- Albert Chi, M.D., F.A.C.S.
- Associate Professor of Surgery
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- Mackenzie R. Cook, M.D.
- Associate Professor of Surgery
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- Alexis Croucher, N.P.
- Nurse Practitioner
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- Laura Dillon, PA-C
- Physician assistant
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- Lauren Greenfield, PA-C
- Physician Assistant
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- Nicolas Hall, AGAC-NP C, MSN
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
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- Mindy L. Hamilton, PA-C
- Physician Assistant
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- Kristen Haynes, A.C.N.P.
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
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- Sarah Heitman, D.N.P., A.G.A.C.N.P.-B.C.
- Nurse Practitioner
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- Heather E. Hoops, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Surgery
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- Kyle Hoyer, P.A.-C., R.R.T.
- Physician Assistant
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- Tatiana Hoyos Gomez, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Surgery
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- Jessica Jurkovich, AGACNP-BC, MSN
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
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- Laszlo N. Kiraly, M.D., F.A.C.S.
- Professor of Surgery
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- Nicole M. Kirker, N.P.
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
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- Darren J. Malinoski, M.D., F.A.C.S.
- Professor of Surgery
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- Ryan McMahon, PA-C
- Physician Assistant
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- Stacey Mermigos, N.P.
- Nurse Practitioner
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- Erika Olson, D.N.P., A.G.A.C.N.P.-B.C.
- Nurse Practitioner
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- Mitchell B. Sally, M.D., F.A.C.S.
- Associate Professor of Surgery
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- Emma Schaus, PA-C
- Physician Assistant
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- Martin A. Schreiber, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.C.C.M.
- Professor of Surgery
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- Brandan Sheets, N.P.
- Nurse Practitioner
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- Erica L. Smith-Cohen, M.S.N., A.P.R.N.
- Nurse Practitioner, Division of Infectious Diseases
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- Amanda L. Staudt, A.C.N.P.
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
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- Philbert Y. Van, M.D., F.A.C.S.
- Associate Professor of Surgery
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- Sally Wright, P.A.
- Physician Assistant
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- David Zonies, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., F.A.C.S., F.C.C.M., F.A.C.H.E.
- Professor of Surgery and Associate Chief Medical Officer for Critical Care