Webinars: Medical Evacuation Planning & Surge Capacity 8/12/10

Thomas J. Esposito, M.D., M.P.H. is a Professor of Surgery at Loyola University, Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood, Illinois. He is the Director of the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Burns in the Department of Surgery at Loyola University Medical Center. Additionally, he serves as the Director of Injury Analysis and Prevention Programs at the Loyola University Burn & Shock Trauma Institute. He is an attending surgeon at Loyola University Medical Center.

Dr. Esposito received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. and a masters degree in Public Health from the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Seattle, Washington. He did his surgical training at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Following his residency, Dr. Esposito completed fellowships in Critical Care and Traumatology at the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, and in Injury Prevention at Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle.

A Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery, Dr. Esposito has a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Surgical Critical Care. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and Vice-Chair of the Chicago Committee on Trauma of the ACS. He is also a member of the national ACS/COT.

Dr. Esposito’s professional organization memberships include, the American Trauma Society, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the National Association of EMS Physicians, the Chicago Metropolitan Trauma Society, Society of University Surgeons, the Society for Academic Surgery, Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American Public Health Association and the Illinois Public Health Association, among others.

He has been appointed to the Prevention Committee of the AAST and EAST as well as to both organizations’ committees on the Future of Trauma Surgery. He serves as the Chair of the AAST Injury Assessment and Outcome committee as well as the EAST Task Force on Research Related Issues and is a member of the Illinois EMSC Advisory Council. He is a consultant to the US Department of Transportation, and a number of states on trauma care system issues. He has served as a trauma center and trauma system site reviewer for the ACS, NHTSA and the states of Mississippi, Maryland, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. He was a recipient of the NHTSA Public Service Award in 1993 and the Florida Committee on Trauma, David Kreis Visiting Trauma Professor Award in 2005. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Critical Illness and Trauma Foundation in Bozeman, Montana, and the SAFEAMERICA Foundation. He also serves as Medical Director of the Rural Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Technical Assistance Center and is the AAST liason to the Brain Trauma Foundation.

In addition to clinical and teaching duties, Dr. Esposito is active in many trauma related studies and projects. He is the recipient of over $1,000,000 in federal and private grants to conduct these activities. He has a particular interest in trauma prevention strategies, trauma systems and their development and evaluation. He also has expertise in the area of trauma data systems and outcomes research. He has numerous trauma related publications and presentations to this credit.

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Captain Brad Austin serves as a Senior Program Officer in the Office of the Civilian Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps in the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General. He is responsible for providing oversight for programmatic and operational activities in support of MRC units nationwide.

For the past 7 years, he has devoted his career to public health emergency preparedness activities. CAPT Austin previously served in the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) as a Senior Program Management Officer. In this role, he trained and deployed to the HHS Secretary’s Operation Center as a member of the HHS Emergency Management Group for Hurricanes Dean, Katrina, Rita, and Ernesto; St Louis Power Outage; and Lebanon Repatriation. Prior to this assignment, CDR Austin served as the first Project Officer to the National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program.

First commissioned in 1990, CAPT Austin started his Federal career in the Health Resources and Services Administration working with the Ryan White CARE Act. He then served in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, managing various substance abuse treatment grant programs. He had the privilege of serving in The White House, providing technical expertise and coordination among substance abuse treatment, mental health, and HIV prevention.

CAPT Austin was raised in Northern California and received his bachelor’s from the University of California at Berkeley and his master’s in public health in health services administration from San Diego State University. He is Board Certified in Healthcare Administration and a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Brad is an avid traveler, a bicyclist, a swimmer, and with three marathons under his belt, refuses to give up the notion that he is too old to run another! In the late 1980s, he was a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer working on healthcare programs in Central Africa.

Captain, U.S. Public Health Service
MRC Senior Program Officer, MRC Program Operations
Office of the Civilian Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps
Office of the U.S. Surgeon General

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Webinars: Medical Evacuation Planning & Surge Capacity 8/12/10

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