Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open Partnerships

MATTOX VEGAS TCCACS 2024 The Mattox Vegas TCCACS takes a leadership role in providing a continuing education venue for complex operative and critical care surgical challenges, with major trauma continuing to be the epitome of such challenges. Our faculty are physicians in active practice who continue “in the trenches” day after day, night after night, dealing with the most complex surgical challenges. This stellar faculty presents practical surgical information, cutting edge data, and contemporary issues. Past attendees have aptly described the conference content, “An incredible journey in surgical knowledge, with “tour guides” whose expertise and personalities make every excursion a uniquely exceptional experience.” “Amazingly wonderful, fast paced experience – like drinking water from a fire hose; it blew me away!” Mattox Supplement

The American College of Surgeons Point Counterpoint Conference takes place annually in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference is different from any other in that it incorporates a debate format for most of the talks, during which experts in the fields of trauma, critical care and emergency general surgery square off on a variety of controversial topics. Topics are carefully selected to appeal to a wide range of practitioners, from physicians to nurses and advanced practice providers. Please see here for our collection of articles going back to 2017.

The Summit on the Advancement of Focused Equity Research in Trauma (SAFER-Trauma) convened more than 50 trauma surgeons, nurses, program managers, researchers, and survivors at the American College of Surgeons headquarters in Chicago August 2-3 2023, and nearly 100 virtual attendees. Participants took stock of existing disparities in injury care and research, and considered innovative solutions to address them. Presentations from the conference–including powerful keynote addresses from Cherisse Berry, MD, of New York University, and Zara Cooper, MD, of Harvard University—can be accessed at: SAFER-Trauma

Outside of well-funded, urban trauma centers, too many critically injured patients die needlessly or suffer excessive disability following delayed or insufficient care. Effective development and equitable and rapid dissemination of clinical practice guidelines is needed to help close the performance gaps between the trauma center haves and have-nots. The AHRQ-funded Design for Implementation: Trauma Research and Clinical Guidance Conference Series (DFI) aims to solve this problem by redesigning how the trauma community develops and disseminates trauma clinical guidance in the United States. The first meeting will convene at the Chicago headquarters of the American College of Surgeons on February 21-22, 2024. All trauma care community partners are invited to learn more and register to participate virtually here.

The American Trauma Society (ATS) is dedicated to the elimination of needless death and disability from injury. For 56 years, the ATS has served as an advocate for the trauma care system, trauma prevention programs, trauma survivors and their families throughout the United States. Our mission is to “Save Lives. Improve Care. Empower Survivors.” Our shared vision is a "world without preventable injuries where survivors thrive." Four key pillars support the work of the ATS team on behalf of our members, including Education, Advocacy, Infrastructure and Empowerment. The ATS is the home to the Trauma Survivors Network (TSN).

The 23rd European Congress of Trauma and Emergency Surgery (ECTES) in Lisbon, Portugal will be held 28-30 April, 2024 by the Portuguese Society of Surgery (SPC) and the Lusitanian Association of Trauma and Emergency Surgery (ALTEC-LATES), institutional members of ESTES.