USA Surgery Hosts Greater Gulf Coast Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Symposium

From left: Dr. Sidney Brevard, associate professor of surgery at USA; Dr. Timothy C. Fabian, guest speaker; Dr. Jon Simmons, assistant professor of surgery at USA; Barbara and Rick Mitchell; Dr. Richard Gonzalez, professor of surgery and director of trauma and surgical critical care at USA; and Dr. Amin Frotan, assistant professor of surgery at USA.

Dr. Timothy C. Fabian (left) was the featured speaker at this year's William A. L. Mitchell Endowed Lectureship in Traumatology and Surgical Critical Care.

The University of South Alabama Department of Surgery hosted the 5th annual Greater Gulf Coast Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Symposium on March 27-28, 2014, at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel in Mobile, Ala. The event had more than 130 attendees.

"The trauma symposium was well received and well attended," said Dr. Richard Gonzalez, professor of surgery and director of trauma and surgical critical care at USA. "The speakers were superb, and the venue was a perfect setting for the symposium."

The symposium provided physicians, surgeons, nurses and technicians with current evidence-based concepts and techniques of resuscitation, diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic intervention.

The 7th annual William A. L. Mitchell Endowed Lectureship in Traumatology and Surgical Critical Care was held in conjunction with the seminar. This year’s lecture featured Dr. Timothy C. Fabian, Wilson Alumni Professor and Chair of Surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.

From left: Dr. Charles Rodning, professor of surgery at USA; Dr. Richard Gonzalez, professor of surgery and director of trauma and surgical critical care at USA; Dr. Jorge Alonso, professor of orthopaedic surgery and director of orthopaedic trauma at USA; and Dr. Sidney Brevard, associate professor of surgery at USA.