35th Annual NWSTC Event Portal
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Welcome to the 35th Annual Northwest States Trauma Conference!
The OHSU Trauma Program is thrilled to present and celebrates 35 years of offering high quality, cutting-edge education in pre-hospital, emergency, and trauma care!
Our distinguished national guest speakers this year are Drs. Jamie Coleman from UofL in Louisville, Kentucky, Bellal Joseph from the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, Arizona, and Katie Russell from the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah.
In order to obtain Continuing Education Credits you must complete the following by March 31, 2025.
Below is the conference schedule with links to the speakers talk and downloadable pdfs of their presentation (when available). This website and the content will remain available to all who have registered until March 31st, 2025.
- Attendance tracker - sign in
- Watch and enjoy the entire event
- Complete the evaluation - give feedback
Attendees must watch the entire conference and submit an evaluation of the presentation to earn 14.0 NCPD contact hours. Participants who successfully complete the above requirements will automatically be directed to complete the certificate form at the end of the evaluation. At the end of the evaluation you will be directed to complete the certificate form. Once you have fill out your information we recommend you "Preview PDF" before selecting "SUBMIT". This will give you an opportunity to save/print your certificate. After your "SUBMIT" the form your certificate will be emailed to you directly.
Agenda
Agenda - download
Case Study
https://echo360.org/media/41de4fb4-37a7-4e36-9ba4-649cc38c134d/public
Makenzie Cook, M.D. – Moderator & Trauma Surgeon from OHSU
Bobby McAllister, EMT – Tribal EMS
Shannon Servin, D.O. – Emergency Medicine from Pendleton
Sam Gwinn, FP-C, CCP-C, C-NPT – Life Flight
Presentation - download
Guidelines for the Frontlines: Advancements in Trauma Care | Bellal Joseph, M.D.
https://echo360.org/media/115ef0a9-f949-4f9b-9693-12e6b399e715/public
Presentation - not available
Utah Pediatric Trauma Network | Katie Russell, M.D.
https://echo360.org/media/cf46756d-59de-47fe-acbe-0c75fa549ca8/public
Presentation - download
Air Medical's Role in Trauma Care | Ben Clayton, ATP
https://echo360.org/media/e84fa809-f945-4f65-8a52-56393da79034/public
Presentation - download
Minutes Really Do Count: Direct-to-OR Resuscitation in Practice | Arvin Gee, M.D.
https://echo360.org/media/e48d9d33-8797-4c89-aa7b-27a459504aec/public
Presentation - download
Rodeo Mass Gathering Planning | Shannon Servin, D.O.
https://echo360.org/media/18e38b1a-389c-4b6a-8424-494bdd53ce46/public
Presentation - download
Engaging Older Adults in Fall Prevention Using Motivational Interviewing | Hiroko Kiyoshi-Teo, Ph.D., R.N.
https://echo360.org/media/bc1f156b-6dcd-42f4-9549-3d6b119a798c/public
Presentation - download
Trauma for the Trauma Providers? | Jamie Coleman, M.D.
https://echo360.org/media/b3cea202-333c-4267-975f-607bb6d54f37/public
Presentation - download
The Impact of a Rural Trauma Program – Making a Difference | Stacey Holmes, BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN
https://echo360.org/media/7bbdf1c6-5a47-46ae-9ffb-9e3db2fbd42f/public
Presentation - download
Patient Story – Benjamin Wing | Arvin Gee, M.D., Amelia Glazier, M.D., & Sam Gwinn, FP-C, CCP-C, C-NPT
https://echo360.org/media/f6c5c01f-6018-4c86-8a9e-05f96c019634/public
Presentation - download
Resilience - What It Is and What It Isn't | Jamie Coleman, M.D.
https://echo360.org/media/ee23e83b-c258-4789-9977-24f09836b026/public
Presentation - download
Animal Hazards NW! | Tom DeLoughery, M.D.
https://echo360.org/media/28a73e2a-73e1-4630-87bd-6907211eec18/public
Presentation - download
Targeted Muscle Reinnervation | Albert Chi, M.D.
https://echo360.org/media/fa36c336-7920-44f4-a0d7-64a8dac78e28/public
Presentation - download
Oregon is BIG: Keep Them Home? | Mackenzie Cook, M.D.
https://echo360.org/media/65a843fd-a0b6-41d3-9300-fc767220c960/public
Presentation - download
Beyond the Tip of Iceberg: Challenges in Geriatric Trauma | Bellal Joseph, M.D.
https://echo360.org/media/3631e0a2-1717-41bc-9346-1a23ef92c71d/public
Presentation - not available
Pediatric Cervical Spine Clearance | Katie Russell, M.D.
https://echo360.org/media/2eb1ac72-26b6-4335-8d76-e04a02ff695d/public
Presentation - download
3D Printing in Medicine | Albert Chi, M.D.
https://echo360.org/media/b92d51f1-0327-4cc4-8618-fbee18d39c42/public
Presentation - download
Debate; Burnout in Surgery: Is it Real or Imagined?? | Jamie Coleman, M.D. vs. Bellal Joseph, M.D.
https://echo360.org/media/ab4aebf6-ce99-4a9e-9136-955ea487fdcd/public
Dr. Coleman's presentation - download
Conference Evaluation
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NCPD Contact Hours
Attendees must watch the entire conference and submit an evaluation of the presentation to earn 14.0 NCPD contact hours. Participants who successfully complete the above requirements will automatically be directed to complete the certificate form at the end of the evaluation.
OHSU is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Oregon Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation #4003172.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure
The planners, presenters, and others in control of content for this NCPD activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
All presenters for this activity have attested that she/he will provide the best available evidence for this content and present information fairly and without bias.
Speakers
National Guest Speakers
![Jamie Coleman, MD](/sites/default/files/2024-01/1%20-%20Coleman.png)
Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon, and Associate Professor of Surgery and the Vice Chair of Wellness at University of Louisville
Dr. Jamie Coleman is an Associate Professor of Surgery and the Vice-Chair of Wellness in the Department of Surgery at the University of Louisville. She is an acute care surgeon specializing in trauma, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care. She completed her general surgery residency in Chicago at Cook County Hospital and Rush University and her trauma and surgical critical care fellowship in Atlanta at Grady Memorial Hospital with Emory University.
Her research focus is on the physiologic impact of sleep deprivation, stress, and burnout amongst physicians and surgeons. She is the PI for the SuPer Trial (Surgeon Performance Trial), the largest study of continuous physiologic monitoring of acute care surgeons. She is also a medical media expert, public speaker, avid writer and blogger. She, and her work, have been features in Forbes, Huffington Post, Good Morning America, Glamour Magazine, and US News and World Report.
![Bellal Joseph, MD](/sites/default/files/2024-01/2%20-%20Joseph.png)
Martin Gluck Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns, and Acute Care Surgery, Chief, Division of General Surgery, Vice Chair, Research at the University of Arizona
Dr. Joseph is the Martin Gluck Endowed Professor of Surgery, Professor of Neurosurgery, Chief of the Division of General Surgery, Chief of the Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Burns, and Emergency Surgery, Program Director of the International Research Fellowship, and Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Surgery at the University of Arizona. He authored over 390 peer-reviewed publications and 33 book chapters. His research has been funded by the NIA, DOD, and DARPA. His areas of expertise encompass traumatic brain injury, resuscitation and factor replacement in trauma patients, frailty, and equity diversity and inclusion. Dr. Joseph is an esteemed member of various national associations, President-elect of Arizona ACS, President of the Arizona Trauma Association, and Vice Chair of the Committee on Trauma for the State of Arizona. Dr. Joseph is also a member of the National Trauma Research Action Plan (NTRAP) steering committee and Secretary of the Coalition for National Trauma Research. His passion lies in nurturing aspiring young surgeons' professional development and growth.
![Katie Russell, MD](/sites/default/files/2024-02/3%20-%20Russell.png)
Dr. Russell is a leader at Primary Children’s Hospital serving as both the Trauma Medical Director, and the Surgical Director of the ECMO program. She is leading telehealth initiatives to lower cost for families related to travel in both the outpatient and inpatient setting. She is involved in a multi-institutional research collaborative, The Western Pediatric Research Consortium, to push the forefront of rigorous research in pediatric surgical conditions.
Dr. Russell has also been active in the field of global surgery. In 2017 she spent two months in the South Sudan with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). She has completed multiple surgical missions in Haiti, Guatemala and Tanzania. She was also on a surgical team that responded in Nepal after the 2015 Earthquake. She intends to continue her efforts in global surgery throughout her career.
Dr. Russell earned a B.A. degree in visual art at Brown University and earned her M.D. at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California where she was elected AOA. She completed her general surgery residency at the University of Utah including a 1-year research fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Eric Scaife. During her research fellowship they completed a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect on patient decision making on cost containment in pediatric appendectomy. She also participated in wilderness medicine research and has continued to teach for the Alaska Mountaineering School and the National Park Service. During her residency she received the Chassin Award for the professionalism in surgery. Dr. Russell completed her fellowship in pediatric surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Outside the hospital, Dr. Russell finds joy in the mountains with her husband Dave and their daughter Wild. Whether skiing, snowboarding, or embarking on outdoor
adventures, she embraces the balance between her professional endeavors and personal passions.
Local Speakers
![Albert Chi, MD](/sites/default/files/2024-01/4%20-%20Chi.png)
Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery, School of Medicine at OHSU
Dr. Chi came to OHSU in 2016 from Johns Hopkins where he served as Medical Director of the Targeted Muscle Reinnervation Program and Medical Director of the Physician Assistant Surgical Residency Program since 2010. Dr. Chi is also commissioned as a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy Reserve.
Dr. Chi received his medical degree from the University of Arizona in 2003 and completed its residency program in 2008. His fellowship training was at the University of Maryland’s R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.
Prior to medical school, Dr. Chi completed both an undergraduate and graduate program in biomedical engineering at Arizona State University, which focused on neuromechanical control. His current research is dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with traumatic injuries with an emphasis on motor control. The OHSU TMR program is currently developing virtual reality programs for upper and lower extremity rehabilitation for individuals with nerve injury. Dr. Chi’s Foundation Innovation for Hope has been designing 3D printed custom designs for anyone in need which has included prosthetics for children, adaptive tools and created the CRISIS Ventilator during the COVID pandemic.
![Ben Clayton](/sites/default/files/2024-02/5%20-%20Clayton.png)
Chief Executive Officer, Life Flight Network
Ben serves as the CEO for Life Flight Network, leading a team of over 900 dedicated professionals in the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain West. Ben joined Life Flight Network in 2015 and has filled a variety of operational, safety, and executive leadership roles of increasing responsibility, becoming the CEO in 2022. A skilled leader, Ben brings with him extensive experience in aviation safety, leadership, and complex operations. His leadership philosophy centers on the people who make up Life Flight Network and ensuring they have what they need to meet the mission of saving lives with industry leading care and transport.
Prior to joining Life Flight Network, Ben served as a helicopter pilot and Aviation Safety Officer in the United States Marine Corps. During this time, he participated in both land and ship-based deployments including to Iraq and several countries in the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia. He trained extensively in complex operations and in aviation safety. Following the Marine Corps, and before joining Life Flight Network, Ben flew helicopters in Africa for a global aviation company.
Ben grew up in Canby, Oregon, and graduated from Oregon State University with a bachelor’s degree in general science.
He serves on the boards of directors for both the Association of Air Medical Services and the Air Medical Operators Association.
![Mackenzie Cook, MD](/sites/default/files/2024-01/5%20-%20Cook.png)
Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery, School of Medicine, Surgery Core Clinical Experience Director, Surgery, School of Medicine at OHSU
Dr. Mackenzie Cook is a trauma surgeon within the division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery with an additional clinical focus on advanced Extracorporal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) management and transport as well as surgical stabilization of rib fractures. He is the medical student clerkship director and has a strong research interest in surgical education. His clinical research focuses on the long term outcomes after injury and approaches to optimize recovery after traumatic injury.
Dr. Cook was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in a small town in Connecticut. He attended college at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and then spent a year backpacking and skiing in Utah before attending medical school at Duke University in Durham, NC. He spent his dedicated research year in medical school at the University of Wisconsin in the endocrine surgery lab as a Howard Hughes medical scholar. He then headed west for residency at OHSU, graduating in 2016 from the general surgery residency program. Following residency, Dr. Cook completed a surgical critical care fellowship at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, WA in 2017.
Dr. Cook lives in Portland with his wife Crystal, their three kids and two rambunctious dogs. Avid hikers, skiers and climbers, the Cook family is happy to call Portland home.
![Thomas Deloughery, MD](/sites/default/files/2024-01/6%20-%20Deloughery.png)
Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine at OHSU
Expertise: Cancer and Blood Disorders
Special focus: Amyloidosis, Benign Blood Disorders, Blood Diseases
Tom DeLoughery is a native Hoosier who graduated from Indiana State University in 1981 (one year after Larry Bird) and the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1985. He did his internship at the University of California, Irvine before traveling to Oregon where he finished his internal medicine residency and hematology/oncology fellowship.
He is currently a professor of medicine, pathology and pediatrics in the Divisions of Hematology/Oncology and Laboratory Medicine at OHSU. His clinical interests are in blood diseases, hemostasis, and thrombosis, subjects on which he has written extensively. He has won numerous teaching awards and has given education sessions to national meetings of many professional societies. He is the course director for the medical school Blood Course and was a co-developer of the Blood and Host Defense course for the New Curriculum.
He also has an interest in the hematologic aspects of sport and travel medicine and served six years on the board of directors of the Wilderness Medicine Society and has chaired their research committee. He is a master at the American College of Physicians and Fellows of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. This year the 3rd edition of his popular handbook Hemostasis and Thrombosis was published.
![Arvin Gee, MD](/sites/default/files/2024-02/8%20-%20Gee.png)
General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, Trauma Surgery at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center
Dr. Arvin Gee is a Trauma and General Surgeon at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center (LEMC) in Portland, OR. After completing his general surgery residency and critical care fellowship at OHSU, practiced at LEMC from 2010 until 2017 when he joined the faculty at OHSU as the Medical Director for Emergency General Surgery. In 2023, he returned to LEMC where he resumed his role as a trauma and general surgeon and serves as the trauma site director for graduate medical education. He pursues his clinical interests that includes applying laparoscopic and robotic surgery techniques to the field of trauma and acute care surgery. When not at the hospital, Dr. Gee enjoys spending time with his family and spending time outside pursuing his hobbies of astrophotography, landscape photography, and wildlife photography.
![Amelia Glazier, MD](/sites/default/files/2024-01/9%20-%20Glazier.png)
General Surgery at Santiam Hospital
Dr. Amelia Glazier is a general surgeon at Santiam Hospital and Clinics in Stayton, Oregon. She attended Chicago Medical School, part of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. She then received her general surgical training via residency at OHSU. After completing residency training in 2023, she began her career as a general surgeon at Santiam Hospital. She participates in general surgery, robot-assisted surgery, general endoscopy, and occasional trauma surgical support to the communities of Marion and Linn Counties. When not in the hospital Dr. Glazier spends time bird watching, crocheting, completing puzzles and playing disc golf.
![Sam Gwinn, FP-C, CCP-C, C-NPT](/sites/default/files/2024-03/9.5%20-%20Gwinn.png)
Flight Paramedic, Life Flight Network
Sam Gwinn is a Vancouver WA based flight paramedic and clinical educator with a passion for education advancement in transport medicine. His work history includes years of 911 EMS with career fire departments, work in multiple level one trauma centers, and providing pediatric specialty care transport on a dedicated hospital based pediatric team. He most recently came to Life Flight Network in 2020 as a flight paramedic and is currently the Regional Clinical Education Manager for their western operations. In his free time he likes to get outside and also loves to overeat Thai food.
![Holmes](/sites/default/files/2024-02/9%20-%20Holmes.png)
Trauma Program Manager, Sky Lakes Medical Center, Klamath Falls Oregon
Stacey is a native of rural Southern Oregon and obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from OHSU in 1997. With over 26 years of Emergency and Trauma nursing experience she remains passionate about rural EMS, Emergency and Trauma Care. In 1998, following a year of medical/oncology nursing she began her career in Emergency/Trauma nursing at Sky Lakes Medical Center in Klamath Falls, OR. In 2004, Stacey took on the role of Trauma Program Manager at the Level III Trauma Center. She has over three years of flight nursing experience, flying both helicopter scene calls as well as critical care interfacility transports. Stacey is also certified in Critical Incident Stress Debriefing and offers peer support to both first responders and hospital staff. She is a wife of 28 years and is blessed to be the mother of four amazing boys. Stacey is looking forward to welcoming her first grandchild later this summer.
![Hiroko Kiyoshi-Teo, PhD, RN](/sites/default/files/2024-01/10%20-%20Kiyoshi-Teo.png)
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, OHSU
Dr. Kiyoshi-Teo's program of research is to explore strategies to enhance the health and well-being of older adults. With her background in preventing adverse events in hospital settings (infection and falls), her current work focuses on reducing accidental falls among older adults in the community. Since 2016, she has led a number of trials using qualitative and quantitative methodologies to examine the impact of motivational interviewing to engage older adults in fall prevention.
![Bobby McAllister, Firefighter EMT](/sites/default/files/2024-01/11%20-%20McAllister.png)
Firefighter/Paramedic-Training Officer, Umatilla Tribal Fire Department, Pendleton Oregon
Bobby McAllister is a Firefighter/Paramedic- Training Officer for the Umatilla Tribal Fire Department. Located on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton. He has an Associate’s Degree in Fire Science Technology from Blue Mountain Community College and is currently enrolled in Eastern Oregon Universities Bachelors in Fire Services Administration. Bobby graduated and obtained his Paramedic Certification in 2022 through the National Medical Education & Training Center (NMETC) Paramedic Program in Boston, MA. In 2022 Bobby was awarded Firefighter of the Year for the Umatilla Tribal Fire Department.
Bobby has been married to his beautiful wife for four years and has four children. When not on duty he enjoys camping, hunting/fishing, riding dual sports and BBQ.
![Shannon Servin, DO](/sites/default/files/2024-01/13%20-%20Servin.png)
Dr. Servin was raised in Helena Montana, attended Montana State University for undergraduate then went onto Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Erie Pennsylvania. Residency training brought her back to the west to pursue her interests in obstetrics, medical procedures, and rural medicine. During her residency Dr. Servin started moonlighting in the Emergency Department and never left. She found her passion working in Pendleton with her colleagues in rural medicine, nurses and paramedics. Dr. Servin has an adult child in law school and spends her free time with her husband, and their two dogs.
The OHSU Trauma Program partners with the American Red Cross
![American Red Cross](/sites/default/files/2024-05/1200px-American_Red_Cross_Logo.svg_.png)
For the second year in a row the Trauma Program host a blood drive during the Northwest States Trauma Conference. During the two day blood drive we collected 39 units!
We would like to sincerely thank all who donated and look forward to partnering with the Red Cross at next year's Northwest States Trauma Conference.