Trauma Symposium Speakers

Dr. Jamie Coleman

Dr. Jamie Coleman is a Professor of Surgery and the Vice-Chair of Wellness in the Department of Surgery at the University of Louisville. She is an acute care surgeon specializing in trauma, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care. She completed her general surgery residency in Chicago at Cook County Hospital and Rush University and her trauma and surgical critical care fellowship in Atlanta at Grady Memorial Hospital with Emory University. She is involved at the national level as the current secretary for the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma and as a Deputy Editor of JAMA Surgery, the highest impact factor surgical journal in the world.

Her research focus is on the physiologic impact of sleep deprivation, stress, and burnout amongst physicians and surgeons. She is the PI for the SuPer Trial (Surgeon Performance Trial), the largest study of continuous physiologic monitoring of acute care surgeons. She is also a medical media expert, public speaker, avid writer and blogger. She, and her work, have been features in Forbes, Huffington Post, Good Morning America, Glamour Magazine, and US News and World Report.

Dr. Joshua Dilday

Dr. Joshua Dilday is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Surgery and Associate Trauma Medical Director in the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is serving as an active-duty Army surgeon as part of the Army Military Civilian Trauma Team Training (AMCT3) Partnership. He completed his surgery residency in west Texas through the Army and matriculated to a Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery fellowship at the University of Southern California. He has additional fellowship training in hospital quality improvement from the Los Angeles County Medical Center. In addition to his clinical focus, he also works to promote system quality improvement and online education. His research interests include system development and quality improvement, trauma outcomes, military surgical outcomes, and surgical education.

Dr. Thomas Duncan 

Dr. Duncan is the Trauma Medical Director at Ventura County Medical Center (VCMC). He is the past chief of medical staff of VCMC, the Medical Co-Director of Anacapa Surgical Associates, and president of Ventura County Surgical Associates. He is the leader/founder of the Violence Intervention Program – Emergency Entry to Exit (VIP-EEE). Thomas is a member of the national American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT) and involved in the advocacy and injury prevention and violence control sections. He is a governor of the American College of Surgeons, vice-chair of the Southern California American College of Surgeons, and immediate past chair of the Prevention Committee of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) and Ventura County Family Justice Center Foundation Board. Other organizational boards Thomas sits on include the American Board of Surgery Trauma Burns Surgical Critical Care, American Trauma Society, and Artists for Trauma. Dr. Duncan has contributed to many publications on firearm violence, falls, and other preventable injuries. He was awarded the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) Presidential Award in 2023 for Distinguished Service.

Including being a dedicated believer in mentorship, his mission is to provide staunch advocacy and support to those without a voice, create a pathway for improving lives of patients by reducing repeat injury and re-victimization, and echoes the mantra of the American College of Surgeons: to attain zero preventable deaths after injury.

Dr. Tanya Egodage

Tanya Egodage is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ, who is triple board certified in General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, and Neurocritical Care. She serves as national faculty for the Neurocritical Care Review course hosted by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST). Her research interests include traumatic brain injury and outcomes research. She has received funding from Rowan University, the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, among others. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications which focus on the care of the injured patient. Dr. Egodage is an active member of several national organizations and is the current vice-chair of the Geriatrics Committee of the AAST. She serves as a course director for Advanced Trauma Life Support and international course faculty for Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma, and has been an invited expert trauma consultant to provide trauma education at high-threat US embassies through the US Department of State. She serves as reviewer for several high impact surgical journals, and is invested in education, scholarship, and fellowship, with the hopes of advancing the care of the critically ill and injured patient.

Dr. Robert D. Greenberg, MD, FACEP

Robert D. Greenberg, MD, FACEP is the Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Emergency Services, Central Texas Division of Baylor Scott & White Health, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine – Temple and Affiliate Clinical Associate Professor for Texas A&M Health Sciences Center College of Medicine in Round Rock, Texas. Dr. Greenberg received his BS in medical technology from Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe, Louisiana. He received his MD from Louisiana State University Medical Center-Shreveport and completed specialty training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati Hospital. He continues to practice clinically in multiple EDs across the central Texas region including adult and pediatric designated trauma centers. He is a Past President of the Texas College of Emergency Physicians, past Chair of the Governor’s EMS and Trauma Advisory Council (GETAC) in addition to other state level activities. He currently serves as the Chair of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Correctional Health Care Committee.

Dr. David Meyer, MD

Dr. David E. Meyer is a general surgeon in Houston, Texas and is affiliated with Memorial Hermann Hospital. He received his medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine. At McGovern Medical School formerly the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, he completed fellowships in Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery and was later invited to stay on as faculty. Dr. Meyer is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Surgery in the Division of Acute Care Surgery.

Jacob Pratt

Jacob enlisted in the United States Army right after high school and served 11 years as a Blackhawk helicopter Crew Chief when his love for aviation soared. He not only flew over 1,000 hours- more than 100 of those in combat Medevac missions but also became a Flight Instructor for both the UH-60 Blackhawk and UH 72 Lakota, training future flight crews with discipline, care, and pride. He embraced the mantle of noncommissioned officer, leading with integrity and compassion, His outstanding service was recognized with numerous honors, including the Combat Action Badge, Sikorsky’s Rescue Award, Air Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, and campaign medals from his deployment to Afghanistan.

Dr. Luis Reyes

Dr. Luis Reyes is a general surgeon who has been serving the people of the Rio Grande Valley for 25 years. He is board certified in General Surgery & Obesity Medicine as well as a Focus Practice Designate in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

Dr. Reyes graduated from La Salle College of Medicine. He completed his residency in General Surgery at Fairview General Hospital/Cleveland Clinic

Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition, Dr. Reyes completed a Clinical Instructorship at the Ohio State University in Minimally Invasive Surgery. Currently, he serves as Associate Program Director in General Surgery for the South Texas Health System GME Consortium and Associate Professor of Surgery for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Throughout his career, Dr. Reyes has provided surgical coverage for three of the busiest emergency departments in the Rio Grande Valley, with extensive experience in acute care surgery and trauma.

Dr. Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS

Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS, is the executive director and chief executive officer of the American College of Surgeons and a clinical professor at the University of Chicago. She was previously director of the Division of Member Services at the American College of Surgeons, and before joining the College, Dr. Turner was in full-time academic practice on the University of Maryland School of Medicine faculty, where she was the surgery residency program director. Roles in national professional organizations or institutions include member of the Boards of Directors of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies and OceanFirst Bank (OCFC), member of CEO Council of The Joint Commission, Specialty Society CEO Coalition member, and the 2025 president of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies. Dr. Turner has served as past chair of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons Foundation Fund, the American College of Surgeons’ Delegation to the AMA House of Delegates, AMA Council on Medical Education, and Surgical Section of the NMA, past president of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons and past member of the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Board of Directors. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University, Dr. Turner continued her training as an intern and resident in surgery at Howard University Hospital in Washington, DC. Her fellowship training in minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgery was completed at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Weill-Cornell University School of Medicine, and Columbia University School of Medicine in New York City. Her MBA was completed at the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business. Dr. Turner is board-certified in surgery, is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and is a member of the American Surgical Association, American Medical Association, National Medical Association, Southern Surgical Association, Southeastern Surgical Congress, Society of University Surgeons, Society of Black Academic Surgeons, Association of Women Surgeons, Latino Surgical Society, and an honorary member of EAST, the Excelsior Surgical Society, and Asociación Colombiana de Cirugia.

Dr. Sydney Vail

Dr. Vail attended medical school at Georgetown University School of Medicine, did General Surgery residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA and 2 years of fellowship, Trauma & Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital Ryder Trauma Center.
He was a Trauma Medical Director for 18 years of his career and arrived in Phoenix in 2008 and since 2018 was chosen during a national search to be the Chairman of the Dept. of Surgery at Valleywise Health Medical Center, formerly the MIHS/Maricopa County Medical Center. He is a Lieutenant Colonel with the US Army Reserve as a Trauma Surgeon with the 628th Forward Resuscitative Surgical Team and recently deployed for 4 months to Iraq. He provides outreach education and presentations across the United States with focused interest in wound ballistics, tactical medicine, disaster preparedness and medical/surgical ethics.

Dr. Alison Wilson, MD, FACS

Dr Alison Wilson is Chief of Division of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery & Surgical Critical Care, Vice-Chair and Professor in the Department of Surgery at J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital, Morgantown West Virginia. She completed her surgical residency and Critical Care fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas.

LeAnne Young, RN

LeAnne Young is the Assistant Clinical Director of Trauma and Injury Prevention at
Texas Children’s Hospital, Immediate Past President of the Society of Trauma Nurses (STN), and Chair of the Trauma Centers Association of America (TCAA) Pediatric Trauma Committee. LeAnne is also an active member of the Pediatric Trauma Society (PTS) and the Pan American Trauma Society (SPT). LeAnne has over 20 years of trauma nursing experience with over 14 years of experience in both adult and pediatric trauma program operations. She has led trauma programs at community based, urban, and rural trauma centers with varying levels (I – IV) of state designation and ACS verification. Throughout her tenure in trauma program operations LeAnne has been involved in in trauma performance improvement, injury prevention and outreach, education, research, and the trauma registry. She has a number of publications in the Journal of Trauma Nursing (JTN) and other peer-reviewed journals and has presented nationally and internationally on the aftermath of pediatric trauma mortality, pediatric child physical abuse, and trauma quality/performance improvement.