Rural and Community Care Committee
This Committee was approved by the EAST Board of Directors on February 2, 2022. First established as an Ad Hoc Task Force in April 2020 and elevated to a Committee in February 2022, the Committee has been established to foster connections between Level I and Level II trauma centers and Community Surgeons who serve rural trauma patients in order to facilitate the exchange of ideas, promote educational activities focused on rural trauma care, and increase multi-institutional research initiatives. The Committee will be responsible for disseminating educational resources focused on the rural Level III/IV trauma surgeon, surgeons who practice acute care surgery in a non-academic setting (rural, urban, or suburban) and to promote further partnerships between these surgeons and the facilities to which they transfer patients.
Members
Keelin F. Roche, MD, MPH, FACS, Chair- East Tennessee State University in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2028
Steven Allen, MD, Committee Member- Penn State University in Hershey, PA
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Andrew Arnold, DO, Committee Member- in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2028
James M. Bardes, MD, Committee Member- West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Megan Bowen, MD, Committee Member- Sanford Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2028
Bracken Burns, Jr., MS, DO, Committee Member- Johnson City Medical Center in Johnson City, TN
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Shannon Carroll, MD, Committee Member- The University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, AL
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Logan Clark, DO, Committee Member
- Michigan State University-McLaren Greater Lansing in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2028
- M. Andrew Davis, MD, Committee Member
- Emory University Hospital/Grady Memorial Hospital in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2028
- Gretchen Lynn Dunford, DO, FACOS, Committee Member
- St. Luke's Hospital System in ,
- Term ends 01/13/2029
- Aileen Ebadat, MD, Committee Member
- in ,
- Term ends 01/13/2029
Viktor Gabriel, MD, Committee Member- Enloe Health in ,
- Term ends 01/13/2029
- Anthony Hayes, BS, MD, Committee Member
- Oregon Health & Science University in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2028
Andrew Hopper, MD, Committee Member- Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital in Nashville, TN
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Tyler Johnson, DO, Committee Member- Kootenai Health in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Kara T Kleber, MD, MA, Committee Member
- Allegheny Health Network in ,
- Term ends 01/13/2029
Kyle C Lange, DO, Committee Member- University of Tennessee Medical Center in Farragut, TN
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Zachary Laucis, DO, Committee Member
- Beacon Memorial Hospital in South Bend, IN
- Term ends 01/13/2029
- Daniel I. Lollar, MD, Committee Member
- Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, VA
- Term ends 01/13/2029
SaeRam Oh Meehan, MS, MD, Committee Member- East Carolina University in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2028
John Reinier F Narvaez, MD, MPH, FACS, Committee Member- Guam Regional Medical City in Dededo, GU,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Ronald Nold , MD, Committee Member
- Ascension St. Francis in Wichita, KS
- Term ends 01/13/2029
Joshua Randles, PA-C, Committee Member- in Fort Sam Houston, TX
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Alex Rasarmos, DO, Committee Member- Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, MD
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Gordon Riha, MD, Committee Member
- Billings Clinic in Billings, MT
- Term ends 01/13/2029
Christina Riojas, MD, FACS, Committee Member- in ,
- Term ends 01/13/2029
- Gregory P. Schaefer, DO, FACS, Committee Member
- West Virginia University in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Eric Shurtleff, DO, Committee Member- Maine Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
William C Starr, MD , Committee Member- University of Utah in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Amanda Teichman, MD, FACS, Committee Member- Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in ,
- Term ends 01/13/2029
- Jon Winkler, MD, PhD, Committee Member
- UAB in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Andrea B. Wolffing, MD, FACS, Committee Member- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH
- Term ends 01/13/2029
Kyle W. Cunningham, MD, MPH, FACS, Ex Officio- Atrium Health - Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC
- Term ends 01/13/2029
Aimée Kaye Svendsen, ND, Ex Officio- Washington State University in ,
- Term ends 01/13/2029
Jessica Mack-Gill, MS, Ex Officio- East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine in ,
- Term ends 01/13/2029