R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center

Clinical Services

Trauma Critical Care Medicine

The faculty in Trauma Critical Care is an interdisciplinary team of experts in the management of critically ill and injured patients. Available 24 hours a day, these intensivists offer consultation and referral services to community physicians requiring support in the management of patients with conditions such as adult respiratory distress syndrome, necrotizing fasciitis, sepsis, and multiple organ failure.

Patients who require a high level of monitoring and intervention either after trauma or during critical illness can benefit from Shock Trauma's critical care resources. The critical care faculty has immediate access to a wide array of sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic equipment. Patient care areas are staffed by nurses with specialized training in critical care.

The complex nature of critical care often requires consultations with other clinical specialists such as infectious disease practitioners, pulmonologists, psychiatrists, and hyperbaricists. The intensivists coordinate subspecialty consultations and then implement integrated patient care plans in Shock Trauma's Multitrauma Critical Care (MTCC) and Neurotrauma Critical Care Critical Care (NTCC) units.

A clinical innovation that is being studied by the faculty in Trauma Critical Care is simplified extracorporeal lung assist (ECLA). ECLA minimizes the need for traditional ventilatory support (and its potential complications), using low blood flow, small vascular catheters, and relatively small extracorporeal blood volume. This system employs membrane oxygenation technology and shows great promise as a support for some patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome.

Specialists at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center are available for consultation and patient referral 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Ambulatory patients are evaluated in Shock Trauma's Outpatient Clinic on a scheduled basis.

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Trauma Critical Care Faculty

Steven B. Johnson, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Surgical Critical Care
Medical Degree: University of Virginia School of Medicine
Residency: University of Rochester, General Surgery
Certifications: Surgery; Surgical Critical Care
410-328-7611 / Academic office

John Adamski II, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Special Interests: Trauma Surgery; Critical Care; Abdominal Compartment Syndrome; Injury Control and Prevention; Trauma Care Policy
Medical Degree: St. George’s University
Masters in Public Health: Johns Hopkins University
Residency: Nassau University Medical Center
Fellowship: R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Trauma/Critical Care Medicine
410-328-3495 / Academic Office

Grant V. Bochicchio, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S.
Professor of Surgery
Director of Clinical and Outcomes Research
Special Interests: Surgical Critical Care; Sepsis; Infection
Degree: Pennsylvania State University, Hershey
Masters in Public Health: University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Residency: Pennsylvania State University Hospital
Fellowship: R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Trauma/Critical Care Medicine
Certifications: Surgery; Surgical Critical Care
410-328-5537 / Academic Office

William C. Chiu, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Medical Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Program Director, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship
Special Interests: Medications with Shock
Degree: University of Maryland School of Medicine
Residency: UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, General Surgery
Fellowship: R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Surgical Research, Trauma Research Training, Trauma/Surgical Critical Care
Certification: Surgery
410-328-5830 / Fellowship Coordinator
410-328-1205 / Academic Office

Carnell Cooper, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Special Interests: General and Trauma Surgery; Critical Care; Pancreatitis
Medical Degree: Duke University
Residencies: University of Minnesota, General Surgery; Yale-New Haven Medical Center, General Surgery
Fellowship: R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Trauma/Critical Care Medicine
Certification: Surgery
410-328-1168 / Academic Office

James G. Cushman M.D., F.A.C.S.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Special Interests: Disaster Management; Damage Control Surgery
Medical Degree: Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons
Residency: St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center, General Surgery
Fellowship: University of California, San Diego; Trauma/Surgical Critical Care
Certifications: Surgery; Surgical Critical Care
410-328-1168 / Academic Office

Nader M. Habashi, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P.
Co-Director, SECLA Program
Associate Professor of Medicine
Special Interests: Respiratory Failure; Post-Operative Cardiac Care; Total Parental Nutrition; Computer Applications in the PICU; Medical Informatics; Computerized Decision Support Systems: Nutrition
Medical Degree: American University
Residency: Temple University -- Conemaugh Valley Medical Center, Internal Medicine
Fellowships: Wayne State University, Critical Care Medicine; University of Utah Medical Center, Pulmonary; University of Maryland Medical Center -- Shock Trauma Center; Critical Care Research
Certifications: Pulmonary Disease; Critical Care Medicine; Internal Medicine
410-328-2359 / Academic Office

Sharon M. Henry, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Wound Healing & Metabolism
Special Interests: Trauma and Critical Care Surgery; Complex Injury; Wound Healing and Metabolism; ATLS
Medical Degree: University of Maryland School of Medicine
Residency: State University of New York -- Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn, General Surgery
Fellowship: University of Minnesota, Critical Care Medicine
Certifications: Surgery; Surgical Critical Care
410-328-2399 / Academic Office

Matthew E. Lissauer, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Special Interests: Inflammation and Sepsis
Medical Degree: New York Medical College
Residency: Hospital of Saint Raphael, New Haven, CT, General Surgery
Fellowship: R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center
Certifications: General Surgery; Board eligible Surgical Critical Care
410-328-7611 / Academic Office

Jay Menaker, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Medical Degree: Jefferson Medical College
Residency: University of Maryland Medical Center
Fellowship: R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center
Certification: Emergency Medicine
410-328-2359 / Academic Office

Sarah B. Murthi, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Trauma/Critical Care
Special Interest: Cardiac Physiology
Medical Degree: University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey
Residency: George Washington University Medical Center
Fellowship: R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center
Certification: General Surgery
410-328-1205 / Academic Office

James V. O'Connor, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.C.C., F.C.C.P.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Director of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Medical Degree: State University of New York/Downstate Medical Center
Residency: Downstate Medical Center - Kings County Hospital Center
Fellowships: Medical College of Virginia; R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Certifications: Surgery; Thoracic Surgery
410-328-8976 / Academic Office

Thomas M. Scalea, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.C.C.M.
Physician-in-Chief
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Francis X. Kelly/MBNA Professor of Trauma Surgery
Director, Program in Trauma
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Special Interests: Trauma Surgery; Surgical Critical Care; Geriatric Trauma
Medical Degree: Medical College of Virginia
Residency: Upstate Medical Center, General Surgery
Fellowship: New York Medical College, Critical Care Medicine/Trauma
Certifications: Surgery; Critical Care Medicine
410-328-8976 / Academic Office

Amy C. Sisley, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Director, Physician Education
Medical Degree: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Residency: University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, Surgery
Fellowship: Emory University, J.D. Martin Trauma Fellow and Surgical Critical Care
Certifications: Surgery; Surgical Critical Care
410-328-3055 / Academic Office

Deborah M. Stein, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Medical Director, Trauma Acute Care
Physician Director, CRRT Program
Special Interests: Management of Traumatic Brain Injury; Functional Outcomes After Trauma; Injury Control; Continual Renal Replacement Therapy in Trauma
Medical Degree: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Masters in Public Health: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Residency: Long Island Jewish Medical Center, General Surgery
Fellowships: R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Trauma/Surgical Critical Care; R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Traumatology
Certifications: Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
410-328-1168 / Academic Office

This page was last updated on: April 14, 2009.

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