Date: May 5-8, 2026

Location: DoubleTree Magnificent Mile
300 E Ohio Street
Chicago, IL 606311

Keynote Speakers:

Kenneth Mattox, MD | Distinguished Service Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery | Baylor University

Anna Ledgerwood, MD | Professor of Surgery; Director, Trauma Services | Wayne State University

Target Audience:  This activity is designed for academic, military, and community trauma surgeons as well as other surgical sub-specialists, intensivists, ER physicians, nurses, PAs, technologists, and other healthcare professionals who care for critically ill trauma patients.

Objectives

• Describe adjunctive technologies used in damage-control resuscitation for complex penetrating trauma.
• Explain the challenges of providing trauma care across urban, rural, and combat environments.
• Differentiate cavitary triage categories and damage-control priorities in patients with concomitant penetrating injuries.
• Select evidence-based approaches for the immediate resuscitation and operative management of penetrating injuries to the neck, thorax, trunk, junctional regions, and extremities.
• Demonstrate key trauma procedures and surgical exposures relevant to exsanguinating patients in simulation-based training environments.
• Integrate multidisciplinary strategies to optimize trauma team coordination and communication from prehospital care through definitive management.

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