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During his time on active duty in the Air Force, he served Dr McSwain is a trauma surgeon and the director of the
as principal advisor to the Air Force Surgeon General on all Trauma Service at the Spirit of Charity Hospital, Tulane Uni-
surgery and trauma-related issues for first-strike deployable versity. He is the medical director of the Prehospital Trauma
teams and was the first director of the Joint Trauma System. Life Support program. He is a former member of the American
He is also the chairman of the Trauma and Injury Subcommit- College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, the surgeon for
tee of the Defense Health Board. the New Orleans Police Department, and the medical director
of the New Orleans Jazz Festival.
Dr Champion is a trauma surgeon. For 20 years he was the
chief of trauma and surgical critical care at the largest teaching CAPT Timby is a pulmonary/critical care physician. He is
hospital in Washington, DC. He is also a professor of surgery presently the Deputy Medical Officer of the Marine Corps.
and senior advisor in trauma at the Uniformed Services Uni- His previous assignments include serving as force surgeon, US
versity of the Health Sciences. He is a senior scientific advisor Marine Corps Forces Command and II Marine Expeditionary
for the Office of Naval Research and is the president/CEO of Force (Forward) in Afghanistan. He has also had a prior tour
SimQuest, LLC. as the command surgeon for the Navy Special Missions Unit
SGM Bowling is a Special Forces 18D medic. He is presently COL Blackbourne is a trauma surgeon at the San Antonio
the senior enlisted medical advisor for the US Army Special Military Medical Center. He was previously the commander
Operations Command. His previous assignment was senior of the US Army Institute of Surgical Research and the for-
medic for the Army Special Missions Unit. mer head of the Army Trauma Training Center at the Ryder
Trauma Center in Miami.
LTC Cap is a hematology-oncology physician. He is currently
assigned to the US Army Institute of Surgical Research, where CAPT Stockinger is a Navy trauma surgeon currently as-
his research interests include transfusion medicine, IV hemo- signed to the Joint Trauma System in San Antonio, TX. He
static agents, coagulation, and trauma. LTC Cap is an asso- has extensive operational medicine experience, including East
ciate professor of medicine at Uniformed Services University Timor, Haiti, OIF, and OEF.
and program director for the Clinical Research Fellowship
Program at San Antonio Military Medical Center. Dr Weiskopf is professor emeritus, Department of Anesthe-
sia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Fran-
Lt Col Dubose is an Air Force trauma surgeon. He was pre- cisco. He directed the clinical hemostasis research program
viously an attending at the Air Force Center for Sustainment of at Novo Nordisk A/S 2005-07, and now consults for various
Trauma and Readiness Skills at the R. Adams Cowley Shock governmental agencies and corporate entities in the fields of
Trauma Center in Baltimore and is currently in a vascular sur- transfusion and hemostasis.
gery fellowship at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston.
CDR Strandenes is an anesthesiologist and the senior
Col (Ret) Dorlac is a trauma surgeon. He is the chief of acute medical officer for the Norwegian Naval Special Operations
care surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Commando. He has been a leader in the international Special
at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. During his 26 Operations cooperative effort to make blood products more
years on active duty in the Air Force, he was the trauma con- available in the far-forward combat environment.
sultant to the Air Force Surgeon General from 2008 to 2011,
the director of the Air Force C-STARS training program at the COL Gross is a trauma surgeon with prior experience with
University of Cincinnati Medical Center from 2007 to 2011 the US Special Operations Command and combat-deployed
and the trauma medical director at Landstuhl Regional Medi- forward surgical teams. He is currently the deployed director
cal Center from 2004 to 2007. of the Joint Theater Trauma System and the trauma consultant
to the Army Surgeon General.
Col (Ret) Dorlac is an intensivist at the University of Cin-
cinnati. During her time on active duty in the Air Force, she Col Bailey is a trauma surgeon. He is currently the director of
served as the critical care consultant to the USAF Surgeon the Joint Trauma System. Col Bailey was previously the head
General, as the medical director for critical care air transport of the Air Force Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readi-
for USAF-Europe, and as medical director of the intensive care ness Skills at St. Louis University Medical Center.
unit at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. She
was instrumental in the creation and development of the USAF
Acute Lung Rescue Team.

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