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10 RDML Hancock, USN, is an emergency physician with multiple Army and Norwegian Navy Blood Research Programs. 21 CAPT
combat deployments. He has served as a flight surgeon, as OIC of a Walrath, USN, is the chair of emergency medicine at Naval Medical
fleet surgical team and as OIC of a shock trauma platoon. He is cur- Center San Diego and the director for Navy Medicine West Emergency
rently serving as the medical officer of the Marine Corps/director, Medical Services. He is the chair of the Committee on En Route Com-
Health Services, Headquarters Marine Corps with additional duty as bat Casualty Care Clinical Practice Guideline Sub-Committee and the
the chief of the Medical Corps for the Navy. COL Holcomb, USA co-chair of the En Route Care Sub-Community to the BUMED
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(Ret), is a trauma surgeon who deployed with the Joint Special Oper- Trauma Advisory Board. He recently completed a deployment to
ations Command for a decade, is a former commander of the US Army AFRICOM as the team leader for a damage control surgical team.
Institute of Surgical Research, and was the Army Surgeon General’s 22 CAPT (Ret) Butler, USN, was a Navy SEAL platoon commander
trauma consultant for 6 years while serving on active duty for 23 before becoming a physician. He is an ophthalmologist and a Navy
years. He is now a professor of surgery at the University of Alabama underseas medical officer with more than 20 years of experience pro-
at Birmingham. He has been a member of the Department of Defense’s viding medical support to Special Operations Forces. Dr Butler has
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CoTCCC since 2001. Maj Knight, USA, is a former Special Forces served as the command surgeon at the US Special Operations Com-
Green Beret medic having served in various Special Operations units. mand and was the chairman of the Department of Defense’s Commit-
After 17 years he transitioned to physician and is now an emergency tee on TCCC for 11 years. He currently serves as a consultant to both
medicine physician who has completed a point-of-care ultrasound fel- the JTS and the CoTCCC.
lowship, served as faculty in the DoD’s only Level I trauma center,
deployed with Joint Special Operations Command, and is now com-
pleting a second fellowship in EMS and disaster medicine. LTC
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Knight, USA, was an Infantry platoon leader, leading platoons in Af-
ghanistan and Iraq, prior to becoming a physician. As an emergency
physician, he served 7 years at Ft. Bragg, NC deploying numerous
times to Afghanistan and austere locations in Africa with a Joint Task
Force. He has extensive experience training medics, APPs, and physi-
cians in austere/operational medicine. Ryan is currently serving as the
regimental surgeon for the 75th Ranger Regiment and is the primary
author of the 2019 and 2020 Ranger Medic Handbooks. Major
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Koerner is a trauma anesthesiologist with the US Air Force. He has
been practicing anesthesiology for more than 20 years and currently
holds an appointment as an assistant clinical professor at the Univer-
sity of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. He is at-
tached to the 711 HPW C-STARS unit in Baltimore and teaches the
ground surgical team-austere course, TCCC, trauma anesthesia, and
the CMRP course as a subject matter expert in trauma care. Addition-
ally, he is a NOAA/UHMS dive medicine physician and supports the
Hyperbaric and Dive Medicine Center at Shock Trauma. CAPT
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Little john, USN, is a prior US Marine who now serves as an emer-
gency physician for the US Navy. He has served as a flight surgeon,
diving medical officer, shock trauma platoon leader, and command
surgeon for multiple US Marine Corps and US Special Operations
Command units. He is currently the force surgeon for Naval Special
Warfare Command. Colonel Martin, US Army (Ret) is a trauma and
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acute care surgeon at Scripps Mercy Hospital and the Navy Medical
Center San Diego. He recently retired from active military service as
the trauma director and director of surgical research at Madigan Army
Medical Center, where he established and directed a highly productive
basic science and translational trauma research lab. He served in a
variety of clinical and leadership positions during five deployments in
support of combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. HMCS
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Morey, USN, is a Special Operations independent duty corpsman
(SOIDC) and advanced tactical paramedic, currently serving as the
medical leading chief petty officer for Tactical Development Squadron
2, Naval Special Warfare Development Group. Dr Morrison is a vas-
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cular and trauma surgeon at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Cen-
ter, with a particular interest in hemorrhage control research. He has
served in the British Army since in 2003 with multiple deployments to
Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr Schreiber is chief of trauma, critical care,
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and acute care surgery at Oregon Health & Science University. He is
on the American College of Surgeons Board of Governors and he is the
chair of the Grassroots Advocacy Engagement Workgroup. He has
been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and has served as the Joint
Theater Trauma System Director. Dr Schreiber also directs the Trauma
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Research Laboratory at OHSU. Dr Spinella is a professor of pediat-
rics at Washington University in St Louis and director of the Critical
Care Translational Research Program. He separated from the US
Army after 12 years of active duty. He is part of a team of investigators
that was awarded the US Army’s Best Invention in 2008 for the devel-
opment of the concept of hemostatic resuscitation. He is an accom-
plished clinical trialist in the area of hemorrhagic shock resuscitation.
He is a co-founder of the THOR Network, and consults for the US

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