Rescheduled: USA Health Advanced Practice Provider Quarterly Meeting

The USA Health Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Leadership Council will host the first advanced practice provider quarterly meeting on Feb. 28, 2018, at 6 p.m. at Dumbwaiter on the Hill.

The quarterly meeting will feature Mindy Crawford, clinical sales specialist for Similac. She will discuss the benefits of human milk oligosaccharides in infant formula.

Crawford earned her master’s of business administration from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo., and her bachelor of science in food and nutrition in business from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

The newly developed APP Leadership Council is the voice for advanced practice providers within USA Health. The mission of the group is to support the APP community through leadership, advocacy and professional development.

The meeting is open to all USA Health advanced practice providers. To register, visit http://evite.me/jaDfk7hxpY or email Kimberly Thompson at kadler@health.southalabama.edu.

Mark Your Calendar: Gulf Coast Acute Care Surgery Symposium

The University of South Alabama Department of Surgery will host the 9th annual Gulf Coast and Acute Care Surgery Symposium March 22-23, 2018, at the Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel and Spa.

The goal of the symposium is to educate attendees on achieving optimal outcomes from the critical ill or injured patient by utilizing rapid assessment and early intervention. The symposium will provide physicians, surgeons, residents, nurses, technicians, EMT and EMS personnel with evidenced-based concepts and techniques in critical care in today’s world.

“Data related to the care of critically ill and injured patients is rapidly evolving with advances in science and technology,” said Dr. Jon Simmons, associate professor of surgery at the USA College of Medicine and a trauma and critical care surgeon with USA Health. “If implementation at the bedside fails to keep pace, optimal patient care can be comprised.”

The format will include brief lectures and panel discussions on clinical scenarios encountered by providers in emergency general surgery, trauma, critical care and burn. Educational topics will cover all emergency aspects of pediatric and adult trauma patients, orthopaedics, burns and trauma updates.

The 11th annual William A.L. Mitchell Endowed Lectureship will be held in conjunction with the conference. The memorial lecture is presented annually to honor the life of William A.L. Mitchell, who passed away in 2005 from severe traumatic injuries sustained in a car accident. This year’s keynote speaker will be Dr. David Spain, professor and chief of surgery at Stanford Health Care in Stanford, Calif. Dr. Spain will present “Stop the Bleed and Zero Preventable Deaths,” during the lecture.  This lecture will also take place at the Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel and Spa on March 22 at 4:30 p.m. The William A.L. Mitchell lectureship is open to the public, free of charge.

For more information, contact Rebecca Scarbrough at (251) 471-7971 or visit http://www.usahealthsystem.com/registration-5617.

William A. L. Mitchell Endowed Lectureship to Feature Dr. David Spain

This year’s William A. L. Mitchell Endowed Lectureship in Traumatology and Surgical Care hosted by the University of South Alabama Department of Surgery will feature Dr. David Spain, professor and chief of surgery at Stanford Health Care in Stanford, Calif.

Dr. Spain will present “Stop the Bleed and Zero Preventable Deaths” on March 22, 2018, at 4:30 p.m. at the Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel and Spa. It is held in conjunction with the 9th annual Gulf Coast Acute Care Surgery Symposium.

Dr. Spain earned his medical degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. He completed his residency training at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and a fellowship at the University of Louisville Hospital.

His clinical areas of specialty are emergency and elective general surgery, trauma and critical care. His research focus is assessment of clinical care, systems of care and introduction of new technology. He currently serves as the editor of the new textbook, Scientific American’s Critical Care of the Surgical Patient. He is board-certified in general surgery and surgical critical care.

The lecture is presented annually in memory of William A. L. Mitchell, who passed away in 2005 from severe traumatic injuries sustained in a car crash. In appreciation for the care he received at the USA Trauma Center, his family established the endowed lecture series to memorialize their son and brother and to improve trauma patient care in our region through education.

The USA Trauma Center is this region’s only Level I Trauma Center, serving as a community resource for citizens throughout the central Gulf Coast region. The center provides the highest level of care for critically ill and injured patients.

For more information about the lecture, contact Rebecca Scarbrough at (251) 471-7971.