Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Fellowship
Mission & Vision
Our primary goal is to train excellent clinicians and technicians both in the operating room and in the intensive care unit. We expect to graduate surgeons who we feel comfortable with in providing care for our own families. In addition, our secondary goal is to produce excellent academicians with the ability to conduct meaningful research and train future generations of surgical critical care and trauma specialists.
Mission & Vision
Our primary goal is to train excellent clinicians and technicians both in the operating room and in the intensive care unit. We expect to graduate surgeons who we feel comfortable with in providing care for our own families. In addition, our secondary goal is to produce excellent academicians with the ability to conduct meaningful research and train future generations of surgical critical care and trauma specialists.
Program Director’s Welcome
The University of Miami/Jackson Health System Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Fellowship Program is based at Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. The hospital is a 1,567-bed tertiary care facility which houses the trauma center, a fully contained and dedicated center for the care of severely injured and critically ill trauma patients.
Program Director’s Welcome
The University of Miami/Jackson Health System Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Fellowship Program is based at Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. The hospital is a 1,567-bed tertiary care facility which houses the trauma center, a fully contained and dedicated center for the care of severely injured and critically ill trauma patients.
The Ryder Trauma Center is only one of six Level I trauma centers throughout the entire state of Florida and the only Level I trauma center in Miami-Dade County. The Ryder Trauma Center provides diagnostic investigations and initial assessment and resuscitation, as well as surgical interventions and critical care for injured trauma patients meeting Florida state trauma criteria.
Approximately 3,500 trauma admissions to the resuscitation area are seen annually. In addition, a local, regional and overseas referral pattern of critically injured patients is also received at the trauma center. As for mechanism of injury, 70 percent of admitted patients sustain blunt trauma and 30 percent of patients sustain penetrating trauma. In addition, the trauma center also contains a burn unit and serves as the referral center for all burns in the Miami-Dade County area. In addition, Jackson Memorial Hospital is home to one of the busiest emergency departments in the U.S., receiving approximately 113,000 visits annually.
Our program is a truly clinically valuable program. With more than 130 surgeons within the Department of Surgery, and with the great diversity and volume of cases seen, overall, our fellows complete their training with the skills and confidence necessary in operating on and taking care of critically ill patients.
In addition to hands-on training and experience, our fellows also present research at some of the most prestigious surgical critical care trauma meetings and conferences around the world.
-Louis R. Pizano, MD, MBA
Description
Approximately 3,500 trauma admissions to the resuscitation area are seen annually. In addition, a local, regional and overseas referral pattern of critically injured patients is also received at the trauma center. As for mechanism of injury, 70 percent of admitted patients sustain blunt trauma and 30 percent of patients sustain penetrating trauma. In addition, the trauma center also contains a burn unit and serves as the referral center for all burns in the Miami-Dade County area. In addition, Jackson Memorial Hospital is home to one of the busiest emergency departments in the U.S., receiving approximately 113,000 visits annually.
Our program is a truly clinically valuable program. With more than 130 surgeons within the Department of Surgery, and with the great diversity and volume of cases seen, overall, our fellows complete their training with the skills and confidence necessary in operating on and taking care of critically ill patients.
In addition to hands-on training and experience, our fellows also present research at some of the most prestigious surgical critical care trauma meetings and conferences around the world.
-Louis R. Pizano, MD, MBA
Fast Facts
Accreditation
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Number of Fellows per Year?
7
Duration of Fellowship?
1 year
Clinical Experience
Year 1
The Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Fellowship is a one-year program which comprises 10 months of surgical critical care; one month on a trauma surgical service and one month on the emergency general service.
This program is designed to allow fellows to qualify for the American Board of Surgery Surgical Critical Care Certifying Exam. The areas of competence that are expected to be achieved by the surgical critical care and trauma fellow are listed below:
- Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
- Invasive hemodynamic monitoring (indications and uses)
- Arterial lines
- Central venous catheters
- Dialysis catheters
- Swan-Ganz catheters
- Management of the cardiovascular system and failure
- Management of the coagulation system and failure
- Management of the gastrointestinal system and failure
- Management of the hepatobiliary system and failure
- Management of intracranial pressure monitoring devices; catheters and strategies for the support of cerebral perfusion pressures
- Management of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome or multisystem organ failure
- Management of the neurological system and failure
- Management of nutritional support of critically ill and injured patients
- Enteral techniques
- Parenteral techniques
- Management of pharmaco-active therapy in the intensive care unit, including pressors and other vaso-active drugs
- Management of the renal system and failure
- Management of the respiratory system and failure
- Management of shock
- Hemorrhagic
- Neurogenic
- Septic
- Management of surgical intensive care unit infections and sepsis
- Ventilator Management
- Complex ventilatory strategies
- Simple ventilatory strategies
Your Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Fellowship Faculty
Heidi Allespach, PhD
Associate Professor, Clinical Family Medicine
Patricia Byers, MD
Professor, Surgery
George Garcia, MD
Associate Professor, Surgery
Associate Director, Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Fellowship Program
Enrique Ginzburg, MD
Professor, Surgery
Valerie Hart, DO
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Associate Director, Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Fellowship Program
Joyce Kaufman, MD
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Howard Lieberman, MD
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Edward Lineen, MD
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Mauricio Lynn, MD
Professor, Surgery
Antonio Marttos, MD
Associate Professor, Surgery
Nicholas Namias, MD, MBA
Chief, Division of Trauma
Professor, Surgery, Tenure
Brandon Parker, DO
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Louis Pizano, MD, MBA
Chief, Division of Burns
Director, Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Fellowship Program
Kenneth Proctor, PhD
Professor, Surgery
Gerd Daniel Pust, MD
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Rishi Rattan, MD
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Gabriel Ruiz, MD
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Shevonne Satahoo, MD
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Carl Ivan Schulman, MD, MPH
Associate Director, General Surgery Residency Program
Director, William Lehman Injury Research Center
Eunice Bernhard Endowed Chair, Burns
Executive Dean, Research
Tenured Professor, Surgery
Danny Sleeman, MD
Director, Surgery Residency Program
Professor, General, Hepatobiliary and Trauma/Critical Care Surgery
Vice Chairman, Residency Education
Daniel Dante Yeh, MD
Associate Professor, Surgery
Alumni Placements Include:
Abington Hospital – Jefferson Health
Hartford Hospital
New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens
The Queen’s Medical Center
UC Davis Health
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Yale New Haven Hospital
Alumni Placements Include:
Abington Hospital – Jefferson Health
Hartford Hospital
New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens
The Queen’s Medical Center
UC Davis Health
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Yale New Haven Hospital