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EAST news 2016 Issue 22 EAST Mission Statement EAST is a scientific organization providing lead- ership and development for young surgeons active in the care of the injured patient through interdisciplinary collaboration scholarship and fellowship. EAST Vision Statement EAST seeks to improve care of the injured by provid- ing a forum for the exchange of knowledge in the prac- tice of trauma surgery to promote trauma prevention research and improved trauma systems design to encourage investigation and teaching of the methods of preventing and treating trauma and to stimulate future generations of sur- geons to meet the challenge. Committees in each legislative body. We learned in mid-May that Trauma Research has been given a 10 Million Boost via Trauma Clinical Research Program in the Department of Defense Health Program budget for 2017. The Trauma Clinical Research Program was established last year with internal DoD funds and an initial 10 million appropriation also secured with the help of CNTR. Although these are great strides there is much work to be done. Even with the above advances when looking at public funding for health- care research trauma research is exponentially underfunded when compared to other health issues which have a much smaller societal impact. To this end EAST was a Partner-Co-signer with the Avielle Foundation to petition the White House and Congress to convene a White House Conference on the National Dialogue on Violence Pre- vention to Protect our Children. The purpose of which is to establish common sense actions and solutions to prevent all types of violence and to create healthier and safer communities for our children and their families through scienceevidence-based approaches support for individuals and families protecting the rights of all investing in and sustaining partnerships with parents practitioners and politi- cians and making a difference in every community. We also joined with multiple health care public health and scientific organizations across the country in petitioning the Appropriations Committee to end the dramatic chilling effect of the current rider language restrict- ing gun violence research and to fund this critical work at the Center for Disease Control CDC. Without funding to better research the public health epidemic that is trauma we cannot make the strides needed to help abate it. Franklin Delano Roosevelt said The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. It is high time for trauma research to stop being the one that is consistently provided with too little. In closing it was a great first quarter for EAST and the second quar- ter is equally great. I hope that all EAST members continue to Pay it Forward to our organization our specialty our families our patients our partners ourselves and our communities. 2016 will continue to be an exceptional year for advancing science fostering relationships and building careers. Nicole A. Stassen MD FACS FCCM EAST President Message from the President continued from page 1 As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them John F. Kennedy