Principal Investigator - Jeffrey Kerby, MD, PhD
Dr. Kerby is an Associate Professor of Surgery, who serves in the Section of Trauma, Burns, and Critical Care, He recently joined the trauma faculty at UAB after serving as a trauma surgeon in the United States Air Force at Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas. While in the military, Dr. Kerby participated in the development and validation of small, portable mobile field surgical teams which are currently being used by all branches of the service to provide surgical support for troops involved in military operations. His primary research focus was in field resuscitation techniques and he has published peer reviewed articles on the topic of hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers. Over the past year, he has worked closely with colleagues in the United States Navy and industry to develop a pre-hospital protocol utilizing a hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier for the field resuscitation of civilian patients with hemorrhagic shock. This protocol is now fully funded and will begin enrolling patients in the upcoming year. Dr. Kerby co-authored the protocol and will serve as a Senior Associate Investigator for the project.
Co-Principal Investigator: Todd Brown, MD, MSPH
Dr. Brown is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at UAB and will serve as the site’s initial CORE fellow. Dr. Brown recently joined the UAB faculty after completing a research fellowship within the DEM. His research has focused on quality control and improvement of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Project Director: Shannon W. Stephens, NREMT-P, CCEMT-P
Mr. Stephens is currently an Instructor of Medicine and the Clinical Research Coordinator for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Center for Emergency Care and Disaster Preparedness and has worked on several disaster medicine and EMS-oriented research trials. He is the Research Coordinator and Project Director for the Alabama Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium. He is also the project manager for Alabama Department of Public Health Cardiac Arrest Surveillance System, funded by Health Resources and Services Administration’s Office of Rural Health Policy. He co-chairs the Alabama Department of Public Health’s EMS quality assurance/quality improvement committee. He has served as a paramedic for 12 years and has been a supervisor and education coordinator for a large ALS urban-based EMS service. He is a member of the National Health Professions Preparedness Consortium and has serviced as an instructor/course director for the Department of Homeland Security’s Healthcare Leadership and Administrative Decision-Making in Response to WMD Incidents course. He serves on several national, state and local committees and is a member of NREMT, NAEMSP, and SAEM.
Research Nurse: Carolyn Williams, RN, BSN, BSME
Ms. Williams recently joined the team at the Alabama Resuscitation Center as the Clinical Research Nurse Coordinator. She is an alumnus of UAB and holds both a Bachelors of Science in Nursing and Mechanical Engineering. She has worked as a Critical Care Nurse for more than 8 years with specific clinical focuses on trauma, burns, surgical, cardiac, transplant, pediatric and medical interdisciplinary areas. She is also a Flight Nurse and served as the first Charge Nurse and Nurse Educator for the Critical Care Transport Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital. She is an active member in both the local and national chapters of American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN). She also holds memberships in the Air and Surface Transport Nurses Association (ASTNA), the Alabama Society of Professional Engineers, the Society of Women Engineers and the National Society of Black Engineers.
Gregory Walcott, MD
Dr. Walcott is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases. He has performed basic science research in the area of internal and external defibrillation for the last ten years. He currently serves as PI on several grants dealing with ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation, as well as sudden cardiac death in the pre-hospital setting. Research interests include the mechanisms of myocardial dysfunction following prolonged ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation.
Paul MacLennan, PhD
Dr. MacLennan is an epidemiologist and is a Research Assistant Professor in UAB's Department of Surgery. Since January of 2003 he has worked under the combined mentorship of Drs. Rue and McGwin. During this period Dr. MacLennan has published several studies that have examined injury risks and injury related clinical research. Dr. MacLennan has expertise in study design and analysis, computer programming and interpretation of results
Richard George, MD, MSPH
Dr. George is in his chief year of general surgery residency at UAB and has matched in the UAB Surgical Critical Care Fellowship for the 2005 academic year. During his training at UAB, he also spent 3 years in the laboratory with an emphasis on clinical and translational research. A primary and ongoing focus is the influence of sex steroid hormones on the post-injury inflammatory response. He has presented at the AAST and the ABA and published in the JOT and Shock. During the time in the lab, he also obtained his MSPH in Epidemiology from the UAB SOPH.
Stacey Cofield, PhD
Dr. Cofield, a statistician by training, will provide expertise in the planning and execution of the statistical analyses associated with each study in the project, as her background in the statistical analysis of longitudinal data is ideally suited to the objectives of the proposed studies.
Gerald McGwin, PhD
Dr. McGwin, an epidemiologist by training, will provide expertise on issues related to study design and execution. He will work to ensure the internal and external validity of each study. Dr. McGwin currently serves as Director of the Epidemiology Unit for the UAB Center for Injury Sciences and Director of Epidemiology for the Crash Injury Research Engineering Network (CIREN) Center at UAB. He has published numerous articles in the area of crash injury prevention and outcomes.
Loring Rue, III, MD
Dr. Rue is a respected trauma surgeon and Director of the Section of Trauma, Burns and Critical Care at UAB, as well as the Center for Injury Sciences (CIS) . He will play a significant role in the training of trauma trainees, and the CIS will provide a site for conducting research.
Irshad Chaudry, PhD
Dr. Chaudry is an internationally renowned shock and inflammation researcher. He also directs the Center for Surgical Research. He will provide laboratory based training for the traumatic arrest pathway. He will participate in the bi-monthly resuscitation conference presentations that will focus on techniques and new hypothesis generation for resuscitation of injured patients.
Raymond Ideker, MD, PhD
Dr. Ideker is an internationally renowned expert in biomedical engineering and mechanisms of ventricular fibrillation. He will provide an opportunity for the laboratory based training of resuscitation trainees through the UAB Cardiac Rhythm Management Laboratory (CRML) which he directs. He will participate in the bi-monthly resuscitation conference presentations that will focus on techniques and new hypothesis generation for resuscitation of primary cardiac arrest patients.
