Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery

Martin Schreiber, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.C.C.M., Head of the 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 approximately 30 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 division head for Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery. He is also the Director for the Donald D. Trunkey Center for Civilian and Combat Casualty Care.

Collaborative, multidisciplinary trauma research

The Donald D. Trunkey Center for Civilian and Combat Casualty Care was established in 2020 and connects trauma providers and investigators from multiple disciplines across OHSU and the VA Portland Health Care System. 

Learn more about our mission, collaborators and quarterly lecture symposium.

Current research within the Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery - find an overview of our surgery faculty researchers and their ongoing work.

Contact us

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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Surgical Critical Care Fellowship

Our competitive 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. See our SCC fellowship page for more information and how to apply.

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.

AMCT3 and SMART rotations for army medical personnel

In 2019, OHSU was one of just two hospitals nationwide participating in the Army Military Civilian Trauma Team Training program, also called AMCT3. The program integrates highly trained army medical personnel into civilian hospital trauma care teams for up to 3 years during peacetime. The cross-training and expertise shared on both sides has proven invaluable and the program has now been implemented across the country.

Since then, an additional program, SMART (Strategic Medical Asset readiness Training) was introduced in 2023. At its launch, OHSU was only one of four U.S. civilian trauma centers participating in the program, and the only one in Oregon to offer the 2-week course. It employs combat nurses and medics in a similar style to the AMCT3. From wound care and sterile prepping, to learning intubation techniques, the Army combat medics and nurses are getting specialized, hands-on experience that is critical for times of combat.

OHSU and our Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery were national front-leaders in the introduction of both AMCT3 and SMART and we are currently one of only a small handful of institutions to offer both programs simultaneously.

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