Episode 159: Inside the Monitor - Advances in Trauma and Emergency Preparedness

Thomas E. Grissom, MD, MSIS, FASA, FCCM

Thomas E. Grissom, MD, MSIS, FASA, FCCM, is a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland and works primarily at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. Dr. Grissom has focused his entire career on perioperative management of the traumatically injured patient with a focus on airway management and resuscitation.

Dr. Grissom spent 25 years in the US Air Force before joining the Shock Trauma. While in the Air Force, he helped establish the Critical Care Air Transport Team program, served as Chair and Program Director for the Air Force’s only anesthesiology residency, and directed the Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills, Baltimore. Currently, he serves as the ASA liaison to the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma and vice chair of the ASA Committee on Trauma and Emergency Preparedness.

Brenda A. Gentz, MD, FASA

Brenda A. Gentz, MD, FASA, is an associate professor of anesthesiology as well as the academic chair at Creighton University School of Medicine- Phoenix and the department chair at Valleywise Health Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Gentz is passionate about bringing graduate medical education training in anesthesiology to the Phoenix metropolitan area, trauma, and acute pain and regional anesthesiology. She completed her acute pain and regional anesthesiology fellowship at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. She completed her medical school training at University of Washington and her undergraduate degree in chemistry and spanish at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon and the University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. Dr. Gentz is an ATLS instructor and the only anesthesiologist who is a member of the Hazardous Emergency Response Team at her level one trauma and burn center.

Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA

Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA, is an attending physician with US Anesthesia Partners-Florida and is a guest editor for The Central Line Podcast. Dr. Deutch serves on the editorial board for the ASA Monitor, and is the author of the bimonthly column "Ask The Expert." Dr. Deutch is also the physician review editor of the ASA Monitor Today, is a member of several ASA Committees, and is an at-large member of the ASA House of Delegates from Florida.

Dr. Deutch is a graduate of Princeton University and The George Washington University School of Medicine. His residency training was done at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, followed by a cardiothoracic anesthesia fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.