2026 Trauma Symposium Speakers
Dr. Jamie Coleman
Dr. Jamie Coleman is a Professor of Surgery and the Vice-Chair of Wellness in the Department of Surgery at the University of Louisville. She is an acute care surgeon specializing in trauma, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care. She completed her general surgery residency in Chicago at Cook County Hospital and Rush University and her trauma and surgical critical care fellowship in Atlanta at Grady Memorial Hospital with Emory University. She is involved at the national level as the current secretary for the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma and as a Deputy Editor of JAMA Surgery, the highest impact factor surgical journal in the world.
Her research focus is on the physiologic impact of sleep deprivation, stress, and burnout amongst physicians and surgeons. She is the PI for the SuPer Trial (Surgeon Performance Trial), the largest study of continuous physiologic monitoring of acute care surgeons. She is also a medical media expert, public speaker, avid writer and blogger. She, and her work, have been features in Forbes, Huffington Post, Good Morning America, Glamour Magazine, and US News and World Report.
Dr. Joshua Dilday
Dr. Joshua Dilday is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Surgery and Associate Trauma Medical Director in the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is serving as an active-duty Army surgeon as part of the Army Military Civilian Trauma Team Training (AMCT3) Partnership. He completed his surgery residency in west Texas through the Army and matriculated to a Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery fellowship at the University of Southern California. He has additional fellowship training in hospital quality improvement from the Los Angeles County Medical Center. In addition to his clinical focus, he also works to promote system quality improvement and online education. His research interests include system development and quality improvement, trauma outcomes, military surgical outcomes, and surgical education.
Rommie L. Duckworth
Rommie L. Duckworth, MPA, LP, EFO, FO is Fire Chief of the Ridgefield (Connecticut) Fire Department and Director of the New England Center for Rescue & Emergency Medicine. A nationally recognized EMS educator, author, and researcher, he has more than 35 years of experience in fire, rescue, EMS, and emergency management.
Chief Duckworth serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) and contributes to multiple national initiatives focused on advancing evidence-based prehospital care. His current work includes participation in the joint American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT), American Heart Association (AHA), American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and NAEMT project developing guidance for the management of out-of-hospital traumatic cardiac arrest, as well as the NHTSA Post Crash Care Trauma Expert Group.
An accomplished educator, Chief Duckworth has authored textbook chapters for AAOS, NAEMT, and the International Association of Fire Chiefs, published more than 100 articles in leading EMS and fire service publications, and serves on the editorial and advisory boards of several national organizations. He has developed award-winning educational programs and presents internationally on clinical care, leadership, quality improvement, and EMS education.
Dr. Thomas Duncan
Dr. Duncan is the Trauma Medical Director at Ventura County Medical Center (VCMC). He is the past chief of medical staff of VCMC, the Medical Co-Director of Anacapa Surgical Associates, and president of Ventura County Surgical Associates. He is the leader/founder of the Violence Intervention Program – Emergency Entry to Exit (VIP-EEE). Thomas is a member of the national American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT) and involved in the advocacy and injury prevention and violence control sections. He is a governor of the American College of Surgeons, vice-chair of the Southern California American College of Surgeons, and immediate past chair of the Prevention Committee of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) and Ventura County Family Justice Center Foundation Board. Other organizational boards Thomas sits on include the American Board of Surgery Trauma Burns Surgical Critical Care, American Trauma Society, and Artists for Trauma. Dr. Duncan has contributed to many publications on firearm violence, falls, and other preventable injuries. He was awarded the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) Presidential Award in 2023 for Distinguished Service.
Including being a dedicated believer in mentorship, his mission is to provide staunch advocacy and support to those without a voice, create a pathway for improving lives of patients by reducing repeat injury and re-victimization, and echoes the mantra of the American College of Surgeons: to attain zero preventable deaths after injury.
Dr. Enedina Enriquez, DSW, LCSW-S
Dr. Enedina Enriquez received her Doctor of Social Work from the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work in Los Angeles, California, in 2021. She earned both her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in social work from the University of Texas–Pan American.
She is a Clinical Associate Professor with the UTRGV School of Social Work. Her research has focused on traumatic loss, grief, and bereavement in the Latino population. Her special focus is suicide prevention and postvention.
She has a small private practice offering individual, family, couples, and group therapy services to the community. She has provided free grief support groups, professional development trainings, and presentations locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally.
Dr. Robert D. Greenberg, MD, FACEP
Robert D. “Bobby” Greenberg, MD, FACEP is the Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Emergency Services, Central Texas Division of Baylor Scott & White Health in Temple, Texas.
Dr. Greenberg received his BS in medical technology from Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe, Louisiana. He received his MD from Louisiana State University Medical Center-Shreveport and completed speciality training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati Hospital and has been in central Texas since 1994.
He is the past chair of the Governor’s EMS and Trauma Advisory Council, and currently chairs the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Correctional Managed Health Care Committee. He has been involved in trauma care his entire career and currently serves as a site reviewer for the state of Colorado and the American College of Surgeons.
Nancy Hoffmann, MSW
Nancy Hoffmann is the Senior Director of Education of the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians. She received her Master of Social Work degree from Boston College and has worked clinically with unhoused women recovering from substance overuse, and served as an emergency crisis clinician in South Boston.
Ms. Hoffmann has worked on medical higher education for over 20 years, including medical student review, physician textbooks, nursing, medical assistant education, and health information technology. Currently, she is the Senior Director of Education for the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians, where she oversees the planning, development, and execution of over 20 prehospital continuing education courses.
Heidi Hotz
Heidi Hotz is an executive leader in trauma nursing, currently serving as the Director of Trauma, Emergency General Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Her career is marked by leadership and dedication to advancing trauma care, both nationally and internationally.
Throughout her career, Heidi has held the position of President in four major trauma professional organizations: The Society of Trauma Nurses, The American Trauma Society, The Trauma Managers Association of California, and the Los Angeles Association of Trauma Program Managers.
Her contributions have been widely recognized with numerous awards. She is a recipient of the Society of Trauma Nurses’ Trauma Leadership Award and the Distinguished Trauma Lectureship Award. Heidi was honored with an honorary membership by the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, becoming only the second nurse ever to receive this prestigious recognition.
Her expertise also extends to accreditation, where she serves as a senior survey team member for the American College of Surgeons Trauma Systems and Evaluation Program. She is also a trauma hospital site surveyor retained by governmental agencies and consulting firms.
Beyond administrative leadership, she has been a leader in trauma education. As the inaugural Chair of the ATCN National-International Committee, she led efforts to secure approval from the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma for this educational program, collaborating closely with the ATLS Subcommittee.
Dr. Jeffrey D. Kerby
Jeffrey D. Kerby, MD, PhD, FACS is the Brigham Family Endowed Professor and Director of the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital.
Dr. Kerby received both his undergraduate degree and medical degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in 1989. He completed his surgical residency in general surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1999, along with a postdoctoral research fellowship in 1996.
Following residency, Dr. Kerby served in the United States Air Force as an active duty surgeon until 2003. Since his return to UAB in 2003, he has served as a clinically active trauma and acute care surgeon.
Dr. Kerby served as the principal investigator for the Alabama Resuscitation Center of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium network, an NIH-funded multicenter trials network of traumatic injury and cardiac arrest, from 2005 through 2015.
Dr. Kerby has established military-civilian partnerships between UAB and the U.S. Air Force, developing trauma-training programs for Air Force Special Operations Pararescue personnel beginning in 2006. In addition, his division has hosted Air Force Special Operations Surgical Teams (SOST) on a permanent basis since 2010, with nearly 30 active duty Air Force personnel currently embedded at UAB as a result of this program.
Dr. Kerby was a member of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT) from 2016 through 2026, and served as Chair of the ACS COT from 2022–2026. He is currently the immediate past Chair of the ACS COT and serves as Medical Director for Trauma Education Programs at the ACS.
Dr. Emily Kidd, MD, FACEP, FAEMS
Dr. Emily Kidd is double board certified in Emergency Medicine and EMS and has been practicing emergency medicine for over 25 years and pre-hospital (EMS) medicine for 21 years.
Dr. Kidd has practiced emergency medicine in Houston as well as in San Antonio. She has served as an Assistant Medical Director for the Houston Fire Department, as well as an Assistant Medical Director and Interim Medical Director for the San Antonio Fire Department. Since 2016, she has served as the Texas Medical Director for Acadian Ambulance Service.
Dr. Kidd is very actively involved in disaster and emergency management at the local, regional, state, and national levels. She held a position on FEMA’s National Advisory Council for 6 years, has sat on the Governor’s EMS and Trauma Advisory Council (GETAC) Disaster Committee for over 18 years, and serves as the Chief Medical Officer for the Texas Emergency Medical Task Force (EMTF). In 2022, Dr. Kidd was appointed by Governor Abbott to serve on his Private Sector Advisory Council. She has also served on the Board and as the President for the Texas Chapter of the National Association of EMS Physicians.
Dr. Kidd’s current passion and focus is making pre-hospital whole blood available to all people in Texas. She is on the GETAC Whole Blood Task Force and the national Prehospital Blood Transfusion Coalition, and served as the Chair for the CATRAC Whole Blood Workgroup for over 5 years.
Dr. Matthew J. Levy, DO, MSc, FACEP, FAEMS, NRP
Dr. Matthew Levy is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a hands-on, academically oriented specialist in emergency medicine (EM) and emergency medical services (EMS). He is highly respected as a civic leader and nationally recognized for his policy and program implementation in EMS, special operations and protective medicine, disaster response, and trauma care.
With his roots as a frontline EMS clinician and his continued maintenance of his Nationally Registered Paramedic (NRP) certification, Dr. Levy has built a distinguished career over three decades as an EMS clinician, consistently demonstrating excellence in patient care.
In addition to his role at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Levy serves as the Medical Director for the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Department of Emergency and Disaster Health Services. He also holds a faculty appointment at the National Study Center for Trauma and EMS at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is also the Chief Medical Officer and EMS Medical Director for the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services, as well as the EMS Medical Director for Central Maryland (State of Maryland, Region III).
Dr. Levy is a board-certified Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (FACEP) and a Fellow of the Academy of Emergency Medical Services (FAEMS). He is an accomplished EMS program implementer and researcher, and a staunch advocate for resuscitation systems of care. Renowned as a passionate educator and mentor, he promotes outcomes-driven prehospital care and resuscitation practices. He maintains active involvement in local, state, federal, and international organizations focused on prehospital patient care, operational and tactical medicine, and disaster response.
Dr. David Meyer, MD
Dr. David E. Meyer is a general surgeon in Houston, Texas and is affiliated with Memorial Hermann Hospital. He received his medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine. At McGovern Medical School formerly the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, he completed fellowships in Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery and was later invited to stay on as faculty. Dr. Meyer is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Surgery in the Division of Acute Care Surgery.
Dr. Alexis Moren, MD, FACS
Alexis Moren, MD, FACS is a Trauma and Critical Care Surgeon at Salem Health in Oregon and a dedicated leader in trauma systems, quality improvement, and surgical education. She serves as the Oregon State Chair for the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, where she works to strengthen trauma care, disaster preparedness, and collaboration across the region.
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Dr. Zachary D. Warriner, MD, FACS
Dr. Warrnier is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Critical Care, Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at the University of Kentucky. He is a native Kentuckian, and apart from his fellowship time in Los Angeles, he completed all his training in Lexington, KY, where he now practices. He serves as the Trauma Medical Director for UK Healthcare, as well as Associate Program Director for the General Surgery Residency Program. He is quite passionate about the coordination of rural trauma care, particularly the management of acute hemorrhage control and limb-salvage in extremity vascular injuries.
Brian K. Yorkgitis, PA-C, DO, FACS
Dr. Brian Yorkgitis started his healthcare career in EMS at several municipal agencies in the Pittsburgh area. He then went on to complete his education as a physician assistant (PA) at Gannon University. As a PA, he worked in various fields including emergency medicine, surgery, orthopedics, and critical care for adults and children.
Dr. Yorkgitis then attended medical school at Philadelphia College of Medicine. He trained at Temple University for his general surgery residency and completed a critical care fellowship at Harvard/Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
His passion for caring for the full breadth of acute care surgery in adult and pediatric patients led him to UF Health Jacksonville, the first trauma center in the State of Florida. At UF, he served as the Associate Chair of Surgery, Pediatric Trauma and PICU Medical Director, Associate Medical Director of TraumaOne Flight and Critical Care Transport, and Associate Adult Trauma Medical Director.
With his healthcare foundation in EMS and previous law enforcement experience with the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office, Dr. Yorkgitis was the tactical physician for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
In 2024, he joined Indiana University as the Chief of Acute Care Surgery and Professor of Surgery.
He continues to work closely with EMS, providing education and training. His research interests include pre-hospital care, adult and pediatric trauma care, opioid prescribing, hemostasis, and anticoagulation.
LeAnne Young, RN
LeAnne Young, MSN, RN, TCRN, CENP is the Director of Trauma and Injury Prevention at Texas Children’s Hospital. Throughout her 21 years in trauma nursing, LeAnne has held multiple leadership positions including the 2024 President of the Society of Trauma Nurses (STN), and Chair of the Trauma Centers Association of America (TCAAA) Pediatric Trauma Committee. LeAnne currently serves on the TCAA Board and maintains active membership and participation in STN, the Pediatric Trauma Society, the Pan American Trauma Society, the Emergency Nurses Association, American Organization for Nursing Leadership, and Sigma Theta Tau International. LeAnne has dedicated trauma leadership experience in both adult and pediatric trauma program operations, and has led trauma programs at community based, urban, and rural trauma centers with varying levels (I-IV) of state designation and ACS verification. Throughout her tenure in trauma program operations LeAnne has been involved in trauma performance improvement, injury prevention and outreach, education, research, and trauma registry operations. She has a number of publications in the Journal of Trauma Nursing (JTN) and other peer-reviewed journals and has presented nationally and internationally on multiple trauma topics including the aftermath of pediatric trauma mortality, pediatric child physical abuse, the role of trauma nurses, whole blood in pediatric trauma, and trauma quality/performance improvement.