C3 Global Trauma Network: Cape-Colorado-Combat

Nee-Kofi Mould-Millman, MD MSCS, PhD is the Principal Investigator and lead of the C3 Global Trauma Research Network. Dr. Mould-Millman is a federally funded emergency medicine physician-investigator with expertise in global emergency medicine and prehospital care systems. He currently holds the appointment of Associate Professor within the University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine, and is a Senior Investigator in Global Health and the Center for Global Health, Colorado School of Public Health.

Following emergency medicine residency training at Emory University School of Medicine, Dr. Mould-Millman completed a dual fellowship program in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Global Health, also at Emory University.

He actively works in resource-constrained settings in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, where he collaborates closely with Ministries of Health, academic institutions, and government EMS agencies. His work has three focus areas: optimizing performance of out-of-hospital trauma care systems, pragmatic delivery of prehospital education, and improving prehospital trauma outcomes. Within each area, Dr. Mould-Millman applies innovative techniques from the disciplines of Dissemination & Implementation science, and Outcomes & Effectiveness research. His research and programmatic work are complemented by public health advocacy predominantly through his extensive involvement with the African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM).

Dr. Mould-Millman has Chaired several multi-national EMS expert panels, organized international EM conferences and meetings, served as an expert EMS consultant, and published several landmark scientific papers of high relevance to prehospital emergency care in sub-Saharan Africa.

Brenda Beaty, MSPH is an Instructor in the Department of General Internal Medicine who works at ACCORDS (Adult & Child Center for Outcomes Research & Delivery Science).

She has over 30 years of experience working in Health Outcomes research, doing statistical programming and modeling. She has worked on pragmatic trials to increase childhood vaccination rates, evaluate therapies for end-of-life cancer patients, and examine costs and utilization for children with complex medical conditions, among others. She has also provided support for studies about Type 2 diabetes, medication adherence, cardiac outcomes, and transplant patients, among many other topics.

She is excited to be providing support to the C3 study as a programmer, data analyst and statistical analyst, as the study of pre-hospital care is near and dear to her heart.

Smitha Bhaumik, MD is a Research Fellow/Clinical Instructor with the University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine.

She attended Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and completed her residency training with the Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine.

She previously served as a Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke Fogarty scholar, conducting research on tobacco control and cardiovascular health in India under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Huffman.

She is completing her research fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Mould-Millman, with a focus on the epidemiology and management of traumatic injuries, including crush syndrome and hemopneumothorax, in South Africa.

She is interested in studying processes of care for the management of emergent cardiovascular and traumatic conditions in low resourced settings. Additional areas of academic interest include diversity, equity and inclusion in EM, substance use disorders, and the impacts of housing instability on health outcomes.

Julia Dixon, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine and serves as education lead for the Global Emergency Care Initiative (GECI).

She completed a Global Health Fellowship and Masters in Public Health at the University of Colorado in 2018 after completing her residency in Emergency Medicine at Denver Health.

Dr. Dixon has been collaborating with the Western Cape EMS system since 2014 when she began working on research projects as a resident. The pragmatic approach Dissemination and implementation science guides a pragmatic approach to her research and partnerships.

Work in South Africa has included a mixed method assessment of pre-hospital triage in the Western Cape and co-investigator on pilot testing and implementation of a novel on-the-job training (TruShoC) for WCG EMS. She has collaborated with the World Health Organization, the African Federation for Emergency Medicine and various Ministries of Health in sub-Saharan Africa focusing on sustainable and high impact development and training programs with ongoing projects in South Africa and Zambia.

Her academic interests include emergency system development and education and training of both international emergency care providers and US healthcare professionals interested in volunteering or working abroad.

Lani Finck, MPH is a Research Services Principal Professional with the C3 Lab in the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Born in Colorado and raised in Senegal, West Africa, she received dual BAs in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs in 2010 and her MPH, with concentrations in Epidemiology and Global Health, from the Colorado School of Public Health in 2021.

She has worked in clinical trial research since 2011, encompassing industry, foundation, and federally funded studies. Lani’s previous work includes expertise in clinical trial implementation in acute and critical care settings and human subject research regulations.

Her current work focuses on database management and data analysis. Through her work with C3, she is pursuing her passions of global health, infectious disease research, and emergency care focused in sub-Saharan Africa. 

Julia Finn is a Research Services Senior Professional in the C3 Lab.

Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she received her Bachelor’s from the Ohio State University and then went on to obtain her Master of Public Health from Emory University in epidemiology.

Julia has experience in birth defects research, examining maternal smoking and alcohol and congenital diaphragmatic hernia in her thesis.

Most recently she was an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she studied Muscular dystrophy and served on the COVID-19 response in the School Support Section.

Julia joined the team in October 2022, where she assists with data management and data quality.

Chelsie Fleischer is the Program Manager for the C3 Global Trauma Network, and has been a Research Services Professional with the University of Colorado School of Medicine since 2013.

She manages project and team priorities for the lab's multiple DOD-sponsored trauma outcome studies. Previously, Chelsie has worked on NIH-funded Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA) prevention studies, and spearheaded a project to develop an understanding of preferences and decision-making strategies for clinical prevention trial enrollment among individuals at-risk for RA.

Chelsie grew up in rural Pennsylvania and received her Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from Juniata College. She completed her Master's Degree in Medical Anthropology from UC Denver, where she focused on cultural and biological aspects of global health and poverty.

Her research interests surround qualitative and mixed-methods approaches to understanding social determinants of health and mortality, and benefits and barriers to aid among rural African cohorts.

Outside of the CU realm, Chelsie volunteers with Colorado Forensic Canines, a non-profit search and rescue organization. She and her husband co-own an urban farm in Lakewood, CO where they use every opportunity to teach their children about food and stewardship of the land.

Bailey Fosdick, MS, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics at the Colorado School of Public Health. She earned her PhD in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington.

Her research focuses on developing statistical methods to analyze multivariate data, specifically network and array data with applications in the social, biological and biomedical sciences.

More recently, Fosdick has served as a member of the Colorado COVID-19 Modeling Group, giving public health guidance to local and state leadership, and she continues to collaborate with researchers studying the impact of COVID-19 nationally and globally.

Fosdick joined C3 Global Trauma Network in Fall 2022 and is thrilled to be part of the team.

Mia Lundin is a Research Services Intermediate Professional with the C3 Lab.

She is a Colorado native and licensed EMT-IV who obtained her bachelor’s degree in psychology with minors in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience and leadership studies from the University of Colorado Denver.

Mia has over 4-years of experience working in emergency medicine. She worked at Denver Health as a medical scribe specialist in the Emergency Department for 2.5 years. She then became the senior research assistant for the Emergency Department in which she consented and enrolled patients in clinical trials, and contributed to several observational studies. Additionally, she worked as a COVID-19 contact tracer for AmeriCorps and was a COVID data specialist for the University of Denver.

In her free time, she loves to travel, cook, practice yoga and Pilates, and spend time with her dog, Spike and partner, Kyle.