UM School of Medicine Professor of
Trauma Surgery Dr. Thomas Scalea Featured on National Network News
Highlighting State of the Art Care Provided at University of Maryland Medical Center's R Adams
Cowley Shock Trauma Center
BALTIMORE, July 25,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM)
faculty member was featured in a prestigious national news program
over the weekend highlighting the lifesaving critical care medicine
practiced at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the
University of Maryland Medical Center
(UMMC). In an extended segment called "One
Night in America" that comprised half of the evening
newscast for NBC Nightly News and additional coverage on
MSNBC, a reporter was embedded at Shock Trauma for more than
nine hours from Saturday evening, July
16, into Sunday morning to document emergency trauma cases
caused by gun violence. Reporters were also embedded in three other
major cities showing different perspectives including police
response to shootings and community support from a local street
pastor.
The special report aired on Sunday evening and prominently
featured Thomas Scalea, MD,
The Honorable Francis X. Kelly Distinguished Professor of Trauma
Surgery at UMSOM and Physician-in-Chief of the R Adams Cowley Shock
Trauma Center at UMMC. He also serves as Chief of Critical Care
Services for the University of Maryland
Medical System (UMMS).
Reflecting on the death of one of his patients, Dr. Scalea said
in the segment, that gunshot deaths are an unnecessary injury in a
civilized society. "This is one night in one city in the
richest country in the world. How can this make any
sense?"
For more than 50 years, the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
has been a worldwide leader in trauma care and innovation, training
some of the leading trauma physicians in the U.S. and around the
globe. SOM physician-scientists have pioneered major advances in
trauma care through research. Shock Trauma is the nation's first
and only integrated trauma hospital and is considered a national
model of excellence with a 96 percent survival rate. It is
Maryland's Primary Adult Resource
Center (PARC) designated to treat the most severely injured and
critically ill patients. The Program in Trauma at UMSOM is the only
multidisciplinary dedicated physician group practice that cares for
injury in the United States.
Earlier this year, Dr. Scalea celebrated his
25th anniversary with the Shock Trauma
Center. Among his many accomplishments, he cared for tens of
thousands of Marylanders critically injured in motor vehicle
collisions, falls and violent attacks, traveled to China and Haiti to render assistance to earthquake
victims, helped train thousands of U.S. Air Force personnel and
worked alongside military physicians in war-torn Afghanistan. He has steered Maryland's highest-level trauma center through
two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Footage from Dr. Scalea's interviews and patient care in the
Shock Trauma Center can be found in the links below.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/inside-a-baltimore-trauma-center-as-nation-faces-gun-violence-epidemic-144312901560
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/one-night-in-america-the-gun-violence-epidemic-plaguing-the-u-s-144241221788
About the University of Maryland School of Medicine
Now in its third century, the University of
Maryland School of Medicine was chartered in 1807 as the
first public medical school in the United
States. It continues today as one of the fastest growing,
top-tier biomedical research enterprises in the world -- with 46
academic departments, centers, institutes, and programs, and a
faculty of more than 3,000 physicians, scientists, and allied
health professionals, including members of the National Academy of
Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, and a distinguished
two-time winner of the Albert E.
Lasker Award in Medical Research. With an operating budget
of more than $1.2 billion, the School
of Medicine works closely in partnership with the University of Maryland Medical Center and Medical
System to provide research-intensive, academic and clinically based
care for nearly 2 million patients each year. The School of
Medicine has nearly $600 million in
extramural funding, with most of its academic departments highly
ranked among all medical schools in the nation in research funding.
As one of the seven professional schools that make up the
University of Maryland, Baltimore
campus, the School of Medicine has a total population of
nearly 9,000 faculty and staff, including 2,500 students, trainees,
residents, and fellows. The combined School of Medicine and Medical
System ("University of Maryland
Medicine") has an annual budget of over $6
billion and an economic impact of nearly $20 billion on the state and local community. The
School of Medicine, which ranks as the 8th highest among public
medical schools in research productivity (according to the
Association of American Medical Colleges profile) is an innovator
in translational medicine, with 606 active patents and 52 start-up
companies. In the latest U.S. News & World Report
ranking of the Best Medical Schools, published in 2021, the UM
School of Medicine is ranked #9 among the 92 public medical
schools in the U.S., and in the top 15 percent (#27) of
all 192 public and private U.S. medical schools. The School of
Medicine works locally, nationally, and globally, with research and
treatment facilities in 36 countries around the world. Visit
medschool.umaryland.edu
About the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma
Center
The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland was the first fully
integrated trauma center in the world and remains at the epicenter
for trauma research, patient care and teaching, both nationally and
internationally today. Shock Trauma is where the "golden hour"
concept of trauma was born and where many lifesaving practices in
modern trauma medicine were pioneered. Shock Trauma is also at the
heart of the Maryland's
unparalleled Emergency Medical Service System. Learn more about
Shock Trauma.
About the University of Maryland Medical Center
The University of Maryland Medical
Center (UMMC) is comprised of two hospital campuses in Baltimore: the 800-bed flagship institution of
the 13-hospital University of Maryland
Medical System (UMMS) -- and the 200-bed UMMC Midtown Campus, both
academic medical centers training physicians and health
professionals and pursuing research and innovation to improve
health. UMMC's downtown campus is a national and regional referral
center for trauma, cancer care, neurosciences, advanced
cardiovascular care, women's and children's health, and has one of
the largest solid organ transplant programs in the country. All
physicians on staff at the downtown campus are clinical faculty
physicians of the University of Maryland
School of Medicine. The UMMC Midtown Campus medical staff is
predominately faculty physicians specializing in diabetes, chronic
diseases, behavioral health, long-term acute care and an array of
outpatient primary care and specially services. UMMC Midtown has
been a teaching hospital for 140 years and is located one mile away
from the downtown campus. For more information, visit
www.umm.edu.
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