The 2023 Erlanger Trauma Symposium is open for registration! Erlanger Health System is committed to providing high quality continuing education for healthcare professionals who care for trauma patients from first response through rehabilitation.

Physicians, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, nurses, and all ancillary staff who care for trauma patients will find this Symposium meets their education needs. The complete agenda is posted at https://www.erlanger.org/centers-of-excellence/trauma-services/trauma-symposium. Lectures include:

1. Trauma Nursing: 25 Years of Red Shirt History / Courtney Gross RN & Jill Pitts RN, Erlanger Trauma Services
2. Traumatic CT Findings: A Pictorial Collection / Trent Willingham MD, Tennessee Interventional and Imaging Associates
3. The Night Shift Scaries / William Hunt MD, UT College of Medicine Chattanooga, Department of Surgery
4. Trauma Triage in a Warzone / Frederick Barton, FNP-C, Sound Physicians
5. KEYNOTE: Street Drugs in 2023 / Sullivan Smith MD, Putnam County EMS
6. Pediatric Trauma Case Report / AJ Davis BSN, RN, CFRN, CEN, TCRN, PHRN, NREMT & Matt Vaughn NRP, CCP, FP-C, Erlanger Health System; Curt Koontz, MD, UT College of Medicine Chattanooga, Department of Surgery
7. Blunt Traumatic Aortic Transection / Kyle Staton MD, UT College of Medicine Chattanooga, Department of Surgery
8. Pediatric Gun Violence and Mental Health Implications / S. Dave Bhattacharya MD, UT College of Medicine Chattanooga, Department of Surgery
9. Ballistic Wounds / Todd Thurston MD, UT College of Medicine Chattanooga, Department of Plastic Surgery
10. Promoting a Successful Transition to Rehab after a Spinal Cord Injury / Tara Grimes OTR/L, Shepherd Center
11. Obstetric Cardiac Arrest / Fred Bossert MD, UT College of Medicine Chattanooga, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Erlanger’s Trauma Services is proud to bring free continuing education to the heroes of health care. We hope you can join us virtually May 19, 2023.

Registrants will be sent a Zoom invite from Erlanger Health System one week prior to the Symposium. Questions? Contact Pat at 423/757-0824.