Equity on the frontlines of trauma surgery: An #EAST4ALL roundtable

Lily Tung1, Andrea M Long, Stephanie Bonne

  • 1From the Division of Trauma (L.T.), Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Acute Care Surgery(A.M.D.), University of California San Francisco Fresno, Fresno, California; Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care (S.B.), Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey; Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Burns, and Emergency General Surgery, Department of Surgery (E.S.T.), MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio; R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center (B.B.), University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland; Trauma, Critical Care, Burn and Emergency Surgery (B.J.), University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona; Section for Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (B.H.W., T.L.Z.), The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Surgery (D.S.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; CEO Wake Forest Baptist Health, Dean Wake Forest School of Medicine (J.E.F.), Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Emergency of Surgery (N.G.), NYU Langone, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York; Department of Surgery (C.K.), Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Department of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Injury Prevention (E.K.), Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey; Division of Acute and Critical Care Surgery (M.H.), Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri; Division of Trauma (R.G.), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; Division of Trauma Surgery and Critical Care (R.R.), DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (DA.J.), NYU Winthrop Hospital & NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, New York; Acute Care Surgery (A.B.), University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky.

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