Katherine Joseph, BS, MPH
National Trauma Survivors Network Coordinator   |   American Trauma Society

Katherine Joseph is the Director of the Trauma Survivors Network at the American Trauma Society, where she advocates for trauma survivors and their families. She empowers trauma centers and rehabilitation hospitals to provide comprehensive psychosocial and peer support services throughout the recovery process. With a strong commitment to advancing trauma care and survivor support, Katherine leverages effective leadership, strategic planning, and collaboration to drive meaningful outcomes. Before joining the ATS, she served as a TSN Coordinator at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, MD. Katherine holds a Master of Public Health in Community and Population Health from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Maria Bautista Durand, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, CPNP-PC
Trauma Nurse Practitioner   |   Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Maria’s nursing career began 20 + years ago as a staff nurse on a surgical floor. After receiving her nurse practitioner degree in 2011, she worked in a pediatric orthopedic practice, specifically in orthopedic trauma. Maria then transitioned into her current position at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) as their trauma nurse practitioner.

Maria is active in several pediatric trauma professional organization, such as Society of Trauma Nurses (STN). She is currently serving as the Clinical Director at Large, and an active member at Pediatric Trauma Society (PTS), and is a lead for the Pelvic HUB Guidelines Committee. She has presented at national conferences on pediatric trauma and participates in various advanced practice hospital committees at CHLA.

Additionally, Maria is faculty in the advanced practice program at Azusa Pacific University and UCLA lecturer. She lectures on various trauma topics in the graduate department of the School of Nursing and leads the trauma education for the nursing staff at various departments in the hospital.  Maria also mentors nurse practitioner students and new advanced practice providers and serve as a resource for our trauma patients in the hospital.

Carrie Allison, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Surgical Critical Care   |   Salem Health

Carrie Allison, MD, FACS is a Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon at Salem Health. Originally from Wisconsin, she obtained her medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin, coming to Oregon in 2004 to enter General Surgery residency at Oregon Health and Science University. She stayed at OHSU to complete Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship as well as a research year in Trauma focusing on delineating mechanisms of coagulopathy and gender based differences in response to Trauma. She has practiced as a Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon at Salem Health for 13 years including several years as Chief of Trauma. She has a passion for improving Trauma delivery systems on a state-wide basis. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, two children and dog Hailey in the beautiful Pacific Northwest outdoors.

Mercedes Burley, MSN-ED, RN, CEN, CPEN, CFN SANE
Emergency Department Nurse & Professional Development Consultant   |   Kaiser Permanente
RN SANE   |   Rapid Save Investigation LLC

Mercedes has worked as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) for the past 11 years, specializing in the care of adult and adolescent sexual assault and strangulation survivors in Oregon and Washington. In 2022, she completed a four-day Advanced Strangulation Prevention Training and  various educational opportunities related to forensic nursing. Mercedes graduated with a Forensic Nursing Certificate in 2019 from University of California, Riverside. Since 2023, she has been a member of the Clackamas County Strangulation Response Initiative as well as the Sexual Assault Response Team by attending regular meetings and joining various projects.

Valerie Campbell RN, BSN, CPEN
Nurse   |   Randall Children's Hospital at Legacy Emanuel 

Valerie Campbell is a registered nurse and has been work in Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care for over 10 years.  Currently at Randall Children’s Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department, she has found her passion caring for pediatric trauma patients and helping with process improvement.

She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Ferris State University in Michigan and is a Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse. From working as a pediatric critical care transport nurse, to her many years in emergency medicine, Valerie spends her shifts advocating for our most vulnerable patients. 

When not at the hospital, Valerie is home with her husband, Justin and two dogs, Seger and Jack.  She loves drinking coffee in her gardens and experimenting in the kitchen with any garden treasures she finds.

Toni DuBois, MN, RN, CEN
Emergency Nurse   |   OHSU

Toni DuBois has been a nurse for 16 years at OHSU. She started in Oncology and later moved to the emergency room, where she has worked for the past 8 years. Toni earned her master's degree in nursing education in 2014 and has been involved in staff education ever since. In 2019, Toni took on the role of staff educator for the adult emergency department at OHSU. Since then, she has been dedicated to improving educational opportunities for all nursing staff to ensure the highest standard of patient care. Toni has been instrumental in developing the insitu simulation program in the emergency room at OHSU and is committed to enhancing patient care through education and training. 

Starr Edge, RN, BSN, MSN, CEN, CFRN, US Army Nurse CPT (ret)
Emergency Nurse   |   OHSU

Starr Edge started her nursing career as an active duty Army Nurse, stationed in South Korea and El Paso, TX (WBAMC) and deployed to Baghdad, Iraq in 2008-2009. After getting out of the Army, she started working for OHSU in 2010 in the Emergency Department and continues to work here. Additionally, she is involved in overseas humanitarian medical working with a few NGOs (Global Response Medicine, Cadus, Global Outreach Doctors) and has worked in many disaster response and conflict area missions, to include locations such as Mosul (Iraq), Syria, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Mexico, Ukraine, and Gaza. Other professional experience includes flight nursing since 2019 and seasonal mountain clinic medicine at Mt. Hood since 2016.

Deborah Eldredge, PhD, RN
Director of Nursing Quality, Research & Magnet   |   OHSU

Dr Eldredge earned her BSN from the University of Washington, her masters’ degree in nursing administration, and her PhD in Nursing from the University of Rochester. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at OHSU in gerontologic nursing, studying family caregiving for patients undergoing blood and marrow transplant.  After 5 years in a faculty role, Dr Eldredge moved to the clinical side of the university in order to support systems that promote scientific rigor in the operational environment. 

Until recently, Dr Eldredge served as the Director of Nursing Quality, Research, and Magnet Recognition at Oregon Health & Science University Healthcare. Under her leadership, OHSU earned magnet recognition in 2012, 2017 and 2022.

Dr Eldredge is committed to developing clinical nurses to answer questions about their practice.  She is a founding member of the Oregon Nursing Research & Quality Consortium, a collective of 8 regional hospitals committed to increasing nurses’ skills using clinical inquiry. She was recognized as the Distinguished Nurse of the Year by the Oregon and SW Washington chapter of March of Dimes in 2014 and also Distinguished Nurse of the Year by OHSU in 2022.

When she is not at work, Dr Eldredge is busy in her garden, which blooms year round.

Rachel Ford, MPH
EMSC Program Manager, Oregon Emergency Medical Services & Trauma Systems Program   |   Oregon Health Authority - Public Health Division

Rachel Ford is the Emergency Medical Services Program Manager for the Oregon Health Authority. Rachel earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and business administration from University of Oregon and her master’s degree in public health management and policy from Portland State University. Rachel has 14 years of public health experience, including tribal public health, hospital system accreditation and compliance, hospital and clinic project management, and state government service.

Rachel is the National Association of State EMS Officials Pediatric Emergency Care Council Secretary and West Region Representative. Rachel also serves on the EMS for Children Data Center Advisory Board.

Erin Horrax, BSN, RN, CCRN
Burn Outreach Coordinator, Oregon Burn Center   |   Legacy Emanuel

Erin has been a nurse for 13 years, 11 of which have been at the Oregon Burn Center at Legacy Emanuel. Most of her years have been spent in the patient care capacity at the bedside and in the charge role. Most recently she stepped into the Outreach Coordinator role where she gets to utilize her years of burn care experience to educate healthcare professionals, first responders and the community about burn care and prevention. Erin is passionate about showcasing the specialized work the burn team provides for the region and building up the confidence of those interacting with burn patients in any capacity.  

Ian Logan, M.D.
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation   |   OHSU

Ian Logan, MD is board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R). He obtained his MD at Saint Louis University in 2016 before completing his residency in PM&R at the University of Washington (UW) in 2020 where he also served as chief resident. After graduation, he joined the UW faculty as an Assistant Professor serving the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine from 2020 to 2024. His clinical focus was on stroke, spinal cord injury, and traumatic brain injury in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.

He recently joined the OHSU Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation and is actively building a physiatry inpatient consult service with a focus on spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury.

Sarah Robinson, BSN, RN, CEN
Adult ED Educator   |   OHSU

Sarah Robinson has been an ED nurse for 12 1/2 years and absolutely loves what she does! She started her nursing career in 2012 in the ED at PeaceHealth SW Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington. Since then, Sarah’s had the opportunity to work as a staff RN as well as a traveling RN in a total of 7 different emergency departments, including both of the level 1 trauma centers in the state of Oregon. Taking care of critically ill trauma and medical patients is her passion and what she enjoys the most about ED nursing. In 2016 Sarah took a staff job in the ED at OHSU and in 2022 became one of the adult ED RN educators. Currently, Sarah fulfill roles in the department such as charge, triage lead, and trauma response. As an educator, one of her goals is to remain active in the department in order to help identify gaps in nursing knowledge, skillset, and overall expertise.

"Critical care and emergency medicine are highly dynamic, complex, and rapidly evolving fields. As such, nurses need educators and leaders who remain motivated to provide the best possible evidence-based and holistic care to our community. Working at an academic, research-driven center has provided me with so many amazing opportunities to accomplish this. The development of the insitu simulation program in our ED is one of the many ways that we collaborate as a team at OHSU in order to continuously push ourselves and strive for excellence in the care we deliver."

Emily Skogrand, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacist   |   OHSU

Emily Skogrand is a clinical pharmacist at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon. She splits her time between an Internal Medicine unit and the pharmacist on the Addiction Care Consult team where her focus is on optimizing care and diminishing stigma for patients dealing with substance use disorders. Emily also collaborates with hospital systems on developing policies and order sets to encourage the initiation and safe use of medications for opioid use disorder.

Susan Steen, MSN, RN, CNOR
Pediatric Trauma Program Manager   |   OHSU/Doernbecher Children's Hospital

Susan Steen graduated from LA County School of Nursing in 1989 and went to work at LA County USC Medical Center on the trauma/orthopedic floor in the operating room. From 1991- 1996 she worked at Loma Linda University where she was the charge nurse in the OR and responded to many traumas both adults and pediatrics, as well as working in the cardiac cath. She then went to UCLA in the OR where she worked traumas and was an RN preceptor for neuro and spine surgery until 2001. In 2002, she started at Kaiser Permanente in Baldwin Park, California and progressively rose thorough nursing administrative ranks to the position of perioperative director and served as interim chief nurse executive. She transferred to KP Northwest and was the ambulatory surgery center manager of Skyline ASC in Salem from July 2016 until February 2020. She retired early from KP after 17 years of service. During the pandemic, she was the perioperative manager at Shriners Hospitals for Children-Portland from March 2020-Oct 2021 and is now currently working at OHSU/ Doernbecher Children's Hospital as the Pediatric Trauma Program Manager. Susan has a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Post Masters Certification as a Nurse Educator. Susan is an active member of the Pediatric Trauma Society (PTS) and serves on their multidisciplinary education committee. She is involved with the Society of Trauma Nurses (STN) and seeking to launch Pediatric Trauma Across the Care Continuum (PTACC) for nurses in Oregon.

Samantha Underwood, MS, CCRP
Research Administrator   |   OHSU

Samantha Underwood is the Research Administrator for the Department of Surgery. She received her Masters Degree in Exercise Physiology from the University of Southern California. Her research career has included exercise-related research in bone density, depression, and health promotion, outpatient stroke rehabilitation, and surgery, trauma, and emergency medicine. After working at the Cooper Institute for Aerobic Research in Dallas, TX and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, she moved to Portland in 2005 to work in the Trauma Research Lab at OHSU where she spent 17 years before moving to the Department of Surgery in 2022. She has managed a diverse research portfolio involving clinical research that includes retrospective chart review, prospective observational, and interventional studies both as a single center and multi-center institutions as well as preclinical basic and animal research. She has mentored undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, graduate, and medical students, residents, and fellows. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, cooking, traveling, gardening, and crocheting.