Multicenter Trials Committee
The Multicenter Trials (MCT) Committee continues the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) mission by facilitating the development and execution of high-quality multicenter trials within the fields of trauma, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care. Multicenter trials can be difficult and require greater coordination, support, and resources than single-center trials. The EAST MCT Committee helps this challenging endeavor by supporting investigator-led studies, providing a forum for collaboration among different investigators and institutions, and promoting participation among all EAST members. In addition, the EAST MCT committee works to foster junior MCT investigators via mentorship and scholarship. The EAST MCT Committee’s primary function, thus, strives to meet and embodies the EAST Core Strategic Goals: leadership, development, scholarship, fellowship, and collaboration.
Committee members are appointed by the President with approval by the Board of Directors. Committee member terms are three years. All terms begin in January and conclude in January in the year specificed in "term ends".
Members
John Cull, MD, FACS, Chair
- Prisma Health-Upstate in Greenville, SC
- Term ends 01/13/2024
James M. Bardes, MD, Committee Member
- West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV
- Term ends 01/13/2024
Dessy Boneva, MD, FACS, Committee Member
- USF - University of South Florida in ,
- Term ends 01/14/2023
Amanda Carlson, MD, Committee Member
- Legacy Emmanuel in Portland, OR
- Term ends 01/13/2024
Rachel L. Choron, MD, Committee Member
- Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Christopher Dodgion, MD, MSPH, MBA, Committee Member
- Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Mira Ghneim, MD, Committee Member
- R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in ,
- Term ends 01/14/2023
Onaona Gurney, MD, Committee Member
- NYU Langone Health in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Laura Harmon, MD, Committee Member
- University of Colorado in ,
- Term ends 01/14/2023
Kazuhide Matsushima, MD, Committee Member
- LAC+USC Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Nimitt J. Patel, MD, Committee Member
- MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, OH
- Term ends 01/13/2024
Joseph Posluszny, MD, Committee Member
- Northwestern University in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Gerd Daniel Pust, MD, Committee Member
- University of Miami in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Samuel Wade Ross, MD, MPH, Committee Member
- Carolinas Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Kevin M. Schuster, MD, MPH, Committee Member
- Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT
- Term ends 01/13/2024
Mark J. Seamon, MD, FACS, Committee Member
- Perelman School of Medicine, U of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA
- Term ends 01/14/2023
Alison A. Smith, MD, PhD, Committee Member
- Louisiana State University in ,
- Term ends 01/13/2024
Anne Stey, MD, MSc, Committee Member
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital in ,
- Term ends 01/14/2023
Sharven Taghavi, MD, MPH, MS, FACS, Committee Member
- Tulane University School of Medicine in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Rindi Uhlich, MD, Committee Member
- in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Matthew J. Martin, MD, FACS, Ex Officio
- Scripps Mercy Medical Center in San Diego, CA
- Term ends 01/14/2023
Ben L. Zarzaur, MD, MPH, FACS, Ex Officio
- University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, WI
- Term ends 01/15/2022