Military Committee
The Military Committee recognizes the mutual benefit of military-civilian collaboration in trauma education, training, and research as well as the outlet that EAST provides for enhancing these relationships. The Military Committee is responsible for creating a network among EAST members who are active military or retired from active duty. The committee is responsible for developing educational content for the Annual Scientific Assembly that focus on the issues facing the EAST members serving in the military.
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
Travis M. Polk, MD, FACS, Chair- Navy Trauma Training Center in Los Angeles, CA
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Stephanie Streit, MD, Chair- United States Air Force in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Scott B. Armen, MD, FACS, FCCM, Committee Member- Penn State Health in Hershey, PA
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Andrew N. Beckett, MD, Committee Member- McGill University in Montreal, QC
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Maggie Brandt, MD, MHSA, Committee Member- Beaumont Hospital - Trenton in ,
- Term ends 01/18/2020
Zachary Brown, DO, FACOS, FACS, Committee Member- Naval Medical Center Camp LeJeune in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2021
Joshua G. Corsa, MD, Committee Member- Providence Regional Medical Center - Everett in Seattle, WA
- Term ends 01/15/2022
- Nicholas Davis, MD, Committee Member
- North Memorial Health in Robbinsdale, MN
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Joseph J. DuBose, MD, Committee Member- United States Air Force in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Jonathan D. Gates, MD, MBA, Committee Member- Hartford Hospital, Univ. of Connecticut in Hartford, CT
- Term ends 01/16/2021
Brian Gavitt, MD, MPH, Committee Member- University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Cincinnati, OH
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Kirby R. Gross, MD, Committee Member- Army Trauma Training Detachment in Miami , FL
- Term ends 01/18/2020
Peter M Hammer, MD, Committee Member- in Indianapolis, IN
- Term ends 01/16/2021
- Cynthia Lauer, MD, Committee Member
- Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte , NC
- Term ends 01/16/2021
Brian E. Leininger, MD, FACS, Committee Member- Memorial Hospital (Central) - UC Health in Colorado Springs, CO
- Term ends 01/21/2021
Rich Lesperance, MD, Committee Member- Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX
- Term ends 01/15/2022
- Debra L. Malone, MD, Committee Member
- in Catonsville, MD
- Term ends 01/16/2021
Alexander Merkle, PA-C, Committee Member- Brooke Army Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
- Margaret Moore, MD, Committee Member
- LSU Health Science Center in New Orleans, LA
- Term ends 01/18/2020
Chet A. Morrison, MD, FACS, Committee Member- Central Michigan University in Saginaw, MI
- Term ends 01/15/2022
John Oh, MD, Committee Member- Penn State Hershey Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Christina Riojas, MD, Committee Member- in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
- John M. Ruggero, DO, Committee Member
- Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Jack Sariego, MD, Committee Member- Jefferson Health Northeast in Philadelphia, PA
- Term ends 01/16/2021
- Dominick Vitale, MD, Committee Member
- in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Alison M. Wilson, MD, FACS, Ex Officio- West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV
- Term ends 01/16/2021
