
The Department of Emergency Medicine leads with purpose — advancing clinical care, research, education, and innovation that change lives and set new standards.

I don’t hire smart people and tell them what to do. I hire smart people so they can tell me what to do.

I learned through my training that we can make a huge difference by just impacting one person, in one moment.

Things you study in South Africa could be relevant to America — I saw this opportunity to study trauma in a way that would be generalizable to much of the world.

I said, ‘I want to be able to treat everything and have a solution for everything at hand.’ I liked that kind of inventive spirit.

People say you can never prevent trauma, and that’s true. But you can prevent the grasp that trauma has on someone’s life.