Curriculum Vitae

Blood Products Advisory Committee

Henry M. (Gill) Cryer III, MD, PhD

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OFFICE ADDRESS: Department of Surgery
UCLA Medical Center
10833 Le Conte Avenue
Room 72-178 CHS
Los Angeles, California 90095
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EDUCATION: Colorado College
Colorado Springs, Colorado
BS --------
  University of Nevada
Reno, Nevada
MD --------
  University of Louisville
Graduate School
Physiology/Biophysics
Louisville, Kentucky
PhD --------
INTERNSHIP: University of Louisville
School of Medicine
Department of Surgery
Louisville, Kentucky
  1980-1981
RESIDENCY: University of Louisville
School of Medicine
Department of Surgery
Louisville, Kentucky
  1981-1985
FELLOWSHIP: Clinical Fellow
American Cancer Society
#---- 1984-1985
  Trauma Fellowship
Department of Surgery
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
  1985-1987
POSTDOCTORAL STUDY: University of Louisville
Graduate School
Physiology and Biophysics
Louisville, Kentucky
  1984-1988
  Awarded PhD. in Physiology/Biophysics
(With distinction)
Dissertation: Microcirculatory Control
During Hemorrhagic and Septic Shock-A
Study of the in vivo skeletal muscle
Microvascular responses to hemorrhage
and bacteremia in the rat cremaster muscle.
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LICENSURE: Medical Board of California
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Kentucky
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  1990
BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Surgery #------   1986
  Re-certified   1995
  American Board of Surgery:   1989
  Added qualification in Surgical Critical Care, #----    
  Re-certified   1999
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Instructor in Surgery
Department of Surgery
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
  1985-1987
  Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
  1987-1990
  Director of Critical Care Services
Department of Surgery
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
  1987-1990
  Director of Burn Unit
Department of Surgery
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
  1988-1990
  Chief of Staff
UCLA Medical Staff
UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, California
  1998-2000
PRESENT POSITION: Professor in Surgery
Chief of Trauma and Critical Care
Department of Surgery
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California
  2001-present
1990-present
  Associate Professor of Surgery
Chief of Trauma and Critical Care
Department of Surgery
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California
  1994-2001
1990-present
MEDICAL CENTER APPOINTMENTS: Executive Medical Director of Trauma Services   1990-present
  Medical Director of Surgical ICU's   1990-present
  Med Staff Exec Committee/Secretary   1996-1998
  Vice Chief of Staff   1996-1998
  Chief of Staff
UCLA Medical Center
  1998-2000
COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS: Jefferson County Medical Society   1985
  Louisville Surgical Society   1985
  Kentucky Surgical Society   1985
  Hiram C. Polk, Jr. Surgical Society    
  President elect   1992-1993
  President   1993-1994
  Association for Academic Surgery   1987
  Program Committee   1989-1991
  Education Committee   1992-1993
  Microcirculatory Society   1988
  Shock Society   1988
  Councilor   1991-1992
  Councilor   1993-1996
  Scientific Program Committee   1997-2000
  Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma   1988
  Program Committee   1990-1992
  American Burn Association   1989
  American College of Surgeons   1989
  Pre and Post Operative Care Committee   1992-1995
  Executive Committee   1994-1997
  Chairman/Critical Care Subcommittee   1994-1997
  Chairman/Clinical Congress
    Post Graduate Courses "Critical Care"
   
  Committee on Trauma/Associate Member   1995-2003
  Committee on Trauma-Executive Committee   2003-2004
  American Association for the Surgery of Trauma   1990
  Scholarship Committee   1993-2001
  Secretary-Treasurer Elect   1997-1998
  Secretary-Treasurer   1998-2001
  Program Committee   1998-2001
  Membership Committee   1998-2001
  President Elect   2002-2003
  President   2003-2004
  The Society of University Surgeons    
  President   1992-1994
  Society of Critical Care Medicine   1992
  Los Angeles Surgical Society   1994
  Western Surgical Association   1994
  Southern California Chapter American College of Surgeons    
  Chairman: S. California Committee on Trauma   1995-2003
  Delegate: California Medical Assoc.
    House of Delegates
  1997-present
  Pacific Coast Surgical Society   1998-present
  Bay Surgical Society   1998-present
  Manager-at-Large   1998-1999
  Secretary-Treasurer   1999-2000
  Vice-President   2000
  President   2001
HOSPITAL COMMITTEES: Professor in Surgery
Chief of Trauma and Critical Care
Department of Surgery
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California
  2001-present
1990-present
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES: Special Care Units Committee
Humana Hospital University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
  1987-1990
  Diversion Committee
Humana Hospital-University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
  1987-1990
  Trauma and Triage Committee
Emergency Medicine Center
UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, California
  1990-present
  Subcommittee for Trauma Patient Care
UCLA Medical Center
  1990-present
  Medical Emergency Disaster Committee
UCLA Medical Center
  1990-present
  Credentialing Ad Hoc By-Laws Committee
UCLA Medical Center
  1990-present
  Critical Care Task Force, Co-Chairman
UCLA Medical Center
  1992-1996
  Medical Staff Executive Committee,
    Councilor-at-Large
UCLA Medical Center
  1994-1995
  Medical Staff Executive Committee,
    Secretary
UCLA Medical Center
  1995-1996
  Medical Staff Executive Committee,
    Vice Chief of Staff
UCLA Medical Center
  1996-1998
  Medical Staff Executive Committee,
    Chief of Staff
UCLA Medical Center
  1998-2000
  Medical Staff Executive Committee,
UCLA Medical Center
  1994-present
  Medical Staff/Administration Liaison Committee
UCLA Medical Center
  1994-present
  Blood and Derivatives Committee
UCLA Medical Center
  1994-present
  Medical Risk Committee
UCLA Medical Center
  1993-present
  Antibiotic Subcommittee of the Pharmacy/
    Therapeutic Committee
UCLA Medical Center
  1992-present
  Acute Care Committee
UCLA Medical Center
  1990-present
  Quality Council, Chairman
UCLA Medical Center
  1997-1999
COMMUNITY COMMITTEES: Trauma Hospital Advisory Committee
Department of Health Services
Los Angeles County
  1992-present
  Quality Assurance Subcommittee, Chairman
Department of Health Services
Los Angeles, California
  1991-present
EDITORIAL BOARDS: Editorial Board of Surgery   1992-1994
  Editorial Board of Shock
Research: Molecule, Cellular and systemic
Physiology of injury
  1993-present
HONORS AND AWARDS: Gold Medal Forum, Third Place
Department of Surgery
Southeastern Surgical Congress
  2001-present
1983
  Charles M. Edelin Award for Best
    Publication by a Resident
University of Louisville
  1984
  Charles M. Edelin Award for Best
    Publication by a Resident
University of Louisville
  1985
  Shock Society (US)
Young Investigators Award in Shock Research
  1987
  Guy Stevenson Award of Excellence in
    Graduate Studies
University of Louisville
  1988
  Graduate Deans Citation
University of Louisville
  1988
  President's Young Investigator Award
University of Louisville
  1988
  Hiram C. Polk, Jr., MD Award
In recognition of teaching excellence
As selected by the chief surgery residents
University of Louisville
  1989
  Alpha Omega Alpha
University of Louisville
  1990
  American Board of Surgery Examiner   2000
2002

RESEARCH FUNDING

  1. Co-Investigator with Neal Garrison, MD: National Institute of Health PHS A 122098: Study microvascular control by tissue factors in sepsis, 1986-1989, $172,813.00
  2. Principal Investigator: American Heart Association-Kentucky: Study microcirculation in trauma, 1987-1988, $-----------.
  3. Co-Investigator with Patrick D. Harris, PhD.: Humana Corporation (U of L Foundation) Center for Applied Microcirculatory Research: Study microvascular derangements associated with hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation, 1986-1990, $-----------.
  4. Co-Investigator with Patrick D. Harris, PhD.: Commonwealth Center for Excellence (Kentucky Government) Applied at Microcirculatory Research: To develop technology to follow microvascular response in humans during disease and therapy, 1987-1990, $1,236,230.00.
  5. Co-Investigator with Neal Garrison, MD: Veterans Administration Merit Review LUAMC #004: To study microvascular responses to sepsis, 1984-1987, $81,326.00, 1987-1990, $87,914.00.
  6. Co-Principal Investigator with Steven L. Barrier and Michael A. Lovett, MD: Surgical Prophylaxis/Fluconazole Study HSPC 91-09-419: Multicenter study of fluconazole in the prophylaxis of fungal infection in surgical patients at high risk of developing candidiasis, 1992-1994, $720,000.00.
  7. Co-Investigator with Robert Oye, MD: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (The Support Study): Study to understand prognoses/preferences for outcome/risks of treatment in critically ill patients, Phase I, 1988-1991, $-----------, Phase II, 1991-1993, $-----------.
  8. Co-Investigator with Edward Abraham, PhD: Cutter Biological Miles Inc. TNF Mab North America Sepsis Trial (Norasept): Study of safety and efficacy of murine monoclonal antibody to human tumor necrosis factor (TNF), 1991-1992, $-----------.
  9. Co-Investigator with Edward Abraham PhD: Synergen Inc-Synergen Il-Ira: Study to evaluate the efficacy of human recombinant interleukin-1 receptor antagonist in treatment of sepsis syndrome, 1992-1993, $-----------.
  10. Affiliate Investigator with Jess Kraus, PhD.: Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, Southern California Injury Prevention Center Grant: For development of multidisciplinary academic and community effort to increase understanding and control of injury occurrences in targeted high risk populations in Southern California, 1992-1995, 1996-1998, $1,620,000.00.
  11. Co-Principal Investigator with Michael Lovett, MD, PhD: Synergen Inc. IL-1ra II: A study to confirm the efficacy of human recombinant interleukin 01 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) in increasing survival in patients with severe sepsis, 1993-1994, $-----------.
  12. Principle Investigator: CDC Grant- Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, Southern California, Injury Prevention Grant: Prevention of multiple organ failure from trauma: determination of risk validation of scoring system and earlier diagnosis, 1994-1996, $90,000.00.
  13. Principle Investigator: CDC Grant-Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, Southern California Injury Prevention Grant: Prevention of multiple organ failure from trauma: determination of risk validation of scoring system and earlier diagnosis, 1996-1998, $90,000.00.
  14. Co-Investigator of the subcontract with the North Coast EMS Agency: California Emergency Medical Services Authority Federal Grant: A prospective comparison of rural and urban trauma patient care, 1996-1997, $110,000.00.
  15. Co-Principle Investigator: RAND: Health Consequences of Violent Victimization, 7/2002-6/2007, $-----------.
  16. Co-Principle Investigator: Hypopituitarism after Moderate and Severe Head Injury. NIH Grant #RO10S40777, 2002-2007.

 

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. Cryer HM., Self SB, Carrillo E, Edmonds HL, and Flint LM: Effects of electrolyte or colloid infusion on the injured lung. American Surgeon 49:645-650, 1983.
  2. Garrison RN, Cryer HM, Howard DA, and Polk HC. Jr: Clarification of risk factors for abdominal operations in-patients with hepatic cirrhosis. Annals of Surgery. 199:648-654, 1984.
  3. Flint LM, Cryer HM, Howard DA, and Richardson JD: Approaches to the management of shotgun injuries. Journal of Trauma 24: 415-419, 1984.
  4. Flint LM, Cryer HM, Simpson CS, and Harris PD: Microcirculatory norepinephrine constrictor response in hemorrhagic shock. Surgery 96:240-247, 1984.
  5. Cryer HM, Howard DA, and Garrison RN: Liver cirrhosis and biliary surgery-assessment of risk. Southern Medical Journal 78:138-145,1985.
  6. Cryer HM, Kaebnick H, Harris PD, and Flint LM: Effects of tissue acidosis on skeletal muscle microcirculatory responses to hemorrhagic shock in unanesthetized rats. Journal of Surgical Research 39:59-67, 1985.
  7. Cryer HM, Garrison RN, Kaebnick HW, Harris PD, and Flint LM: Skeletal microcirculatory responses to hyperdynamic E coli sepsis in unanesthetized rats. Archives of Surgery 122:86-92, 1987.
  8. Cryer HM, Garrison RN, and Harris PD: Role of muscle micro-vascular during hyperdynamic phases of endotoxin shock in decerebrate rats. Journal of Trauma 28:312-318, 1988.
  9. Cryer HM, Unger LS, Garrison RN, and Harris PD: Prostaglandins maintain renal microvascular blood flow during hyperdynamic bacteremia. Circulatory Shock 26:71-88, 1988.
  10. Cryer HM, Miller FB, Evers BM, Rouben LR, and Seligson DL: Pelvic fracture classification: Correlation with hemorrhage. Journal of Trauma 28:973-980, 1988.
  11. Whitworth PW, Cryer HM, Garrison RN, Baumgarten TE, and Harris PD: Hypoperfusion of the intestinal microcirculation without decreased cardiac output during live Escherichia coli sepsis in rats. Circulatory Shock 27:111-122, 1989.
  12. Lubbe AS, Garrison RN, Harris PD, and Cryer HM: Hypertension alters microvascular responses in skeletal muscle to hyperdynamic bacteremia and hypodynamic E coli sepsis. Journal of Surgical Research 46:108-117, 1989.
  13. Garrison RN, Cryer HM: Role of the Microcirculation to Skeletal muscle during shock.
    Progress in Clinical & Biological Research 299: 43-52, 1989.
  14. Evers BM, Cryer HM, and Miller FB: Pelvic fracture hemorrhage: Priorities in management. Archives of Surgery 124:422-424, 1989.
  15. Miller FB, Cryer HM, Chilikuri S, Creech P, and Richardson, JD: Negative findings in laparotomy for trauma. Southern Medical Journal 82:1231-1234, 1989.
  16. Miller FB, Richardson JD, Thomas HA, Cryer HM, and Willing SJ: Role of CT in diagnosis of major arterial injury after blunt thoracic trauma. Surgery 106:596-603, 1989.
  17. Unger LS, Cryer HM, and Garrison RN: A differential response of the microvasculature in the liver during bacteremia. Circulatory Shock 29:335-344, 1989.
  18. Cryer HG, Richardson JD, Longmire-Cook S, and Brown CM: Oxygen delivery in patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome who undergo surgery: Correlation with multiple-system organ failure.
    Archives of Surgery 124:1378-1385, 1989.
  19. Malangoni MA, Miller FB, Cryer HM, Mullins RJ, and Richardson JD: The management of penetrating pelvic trauma. American Surgeon 56:61-65, 1990.
  20. Cue JI, Miller FB, Cryer HM, Malangoni MA, and Richardson JD: A prospective randomized comparison between open and closed peritoneal lavage techniques. Journal of Trauma 30:880-883, 1990.
  21. Cryer HM, Mavroudis C, Yu J, Roberts A, Cue J, Richardson JD, Polk HC: Shock transfusion and pneumonectomy: Death is due to right heart failure and increased vascular resistance. Annals of Surgery 212:197-201, 1990.
  22. Cue JI, Cryer HG, Miller FB, Richardson JD, and Polk HC Jr: Packing and planned re-exploration for hemorrhage: Critical refinements of a useful technique. Journal of Trauma 30:1007-1013, 1990.
  23. Livingston DH, Cryer HM, Miller FB, Malangoni MA, Polk HC Jr., and Weiner L.J: A randomized prospective study of topical antimicrobial agents on skin grafts after thermal injury. Journal of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery 86:1059-1064, 1990.
  24. Cryer HG, Garrison RN, Harris PD, Greenwald BH, and Alsip NL: Prostaglandins mediate skeletal muscle arteriole dilation in hyperdynamic bacteremia. American Journal Physiology 259:H728-H734, 1990.
  25. Gosche JR, Garrison RN, Harris PD, Cryer HM: Absorptive hyperemia restores intestinal blood flow during E coli sepsis in the rat. Archives of Surgery 125:1573-1576, 1990.
  26. Flynn WJ Jr, Cryer HG, Richardson JD. Reappraisal of pancreatic and duodenal injury management based on injury severity. Archives of Surgery 125: 1539-1541, 1991.
  27. Abraham JS, Bentley FR, Garrison RN, Cryer HM: Cyclosporin A directly constricts intrarenal arterioles. Transplant Proceed. 23:356-359, 1991.
  28. Marzek PA, Miller FB, Cryer HM, Polk HC, Jr: Nonthermal surgical complications in burn patients. Southern Medical Journal 84:689-691,1991.
  29. Flynn WJ, Cryer HM, Garrison RN: Pentoxifylline but not saralasin restores hepatic blood flow after resuscitation from hemorrhagic shock. Journal of Surgical Research 50:616-621, 1991.
  30. Flynn WJ, Cryer HM, Garrison RN: Pentoxifylline restores intestinal microvascular blood flow during resuscitated hemorrhagic shock. Surgery 110:350-356, 1991.
  31. Abraham JS, Bentley FR, Garrison RN, Cryer HM: Influence of cyclosporin vehicle, cremophoreel on the renal microvascular blood flow in the rat. Transplantation 52:101-105, 1991.
  32. Cryer HM, Anigian GM, Miller FB, Malangoni MA, Weiner L, Polk HC, Jr: Effects of early tangential excision and grafting on survival after burn injury. Surgery, Gynecology, Obstetrics 173:449-453, 1991.
  33. Lubbe AS, Garrison RN, Cryer HM, Alsip NL, Harris PD: EDRF as possible mediator of sepsis-induced arteriolar dilation in skeletal muscle. American Journal of Physiology 262: H880-887, 1992.
  34. Fulton RL, Flynn WJ, Mancino M, Bowles D, Cryer HM. Brain Injury causes loss of cardiovascular response to hemorrhagic shock. Journal of Investigative Surgery 6:117-131, 1993.
  35. Cryer HM, Bloom ITM, Unger LS, Garrison RN. Factors affecting renal microvascular blood flow in rat hyperdynamic bacteremia. American Journal of Physiology: 264H1988-H1997, 1993.
  36. Carillo EH, Richardson JD, Malias MA, Cryer HM, Miller FB. Long term outcome of trauma care in the elderly. Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics 176:559-564, 1993
  37. Sherman S, Shaked A, Cryer HM. Goldstein L, Busuttil R. Endoscopic management of biliary fistulas complicating liver transplantation. Annals of Surgery 218:167-175, 1993.
  38. Savides T, Sherman S, Kadell B, Cryer HM., Derezin M. Bilateral pneumothoraces and subcutaneous emphysema following endoscopic sphincterotomy. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 39:814-817, 1993.
  39. Law MM, Cryer HM, Hovda DA. Concussive brain injury adversely affects hemodynamic compensation during hemorrhagic shock. Surgical Forum Volume XLIV, Page 32-34, 1993.
  40. Meade P, Shoemaker WC, Donnely TJ, Abraham E, Jagels MA, Cryer HM, Hugli TE, Bishop MH, Wo CCJ: Temporal patterns of hemodynamics, oxygen transport cytokine, and compliment activity in the development of adult respiratory distress syndrome after severe injury. Journal of Trauma 36:651-657, 1994.
  41. Law MM, Cryer HM, Abraham E.: Elevated serum levels of soluble ICAM-1, correlated with the development of multiple organ failure in severely injured trauma patients. Journal of Trauma 37:100-110, 1994.
  42. Lubbe AS, Cryer HM, Harris PD, Garrison RN: Altered microvascular responses of the small intestine to sepsis during renovascular hypertension. Shock 1:108-114, 1994.
  43. Gosche JR, Spain DA, Garrison RN, Luebbe AS, Cryer HG: Differential microvascular response to cyclo oxygenase blockade in the small intestine during acute bacteremia. Shock: 2: 408-412, 1994.
  44. Donnelly TJ, Meade P, Jagels M., Cryer HG, Law MW, Hyalite TE, Abraham E: Cytokine, complement and endotoxin profiles associated with the development of the adult respiratory distress syndrome following severe injury. Critical Care Medicine 22:768-776, 1994.
  45. Caswell D, Cryer HG: Case Study: When the nurse and physician don't agree. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing 9: 30-42, 1995.
  46. Law MM, Hovda DA, Cryer HG: Fluid percussion brain injury adversely affects control of vascular tone during hemorrhagic shock. Shock 6 (3):213-217, 1996.
  47. Lo C, Garcia I, Cryer HG, Maier RV: Calcium and calmodulin regulate LPS-induced alveolar macrophage production of tumor necrosis factor and procoagulant activity. Archives of Surgery 131: 44-50, 1996.
  48. Lo C, Cryer G, RV Maier: Prostaglandin E2 production by endotoxin stimulated alveolar macrophages is regulated by phospholipase C pathways. Journal of Trauma 40:557-563, 1996.
  49. Cryer HG, Hiatt JR, Fleming AW, Gruen JP, Sterling J.: Standard audit filters are of limited value in an established trauma system. Journal of Trauma 41: 389-95, 1996.
  50. Perez CM, Kubak BM, Cryer HG, Salehmugodarn S, Vespa P, Farmer D. Adjunctive Treatment of Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome using Intravenous Immunoglobulin: Case Report and Review. American Journal of Medicine 102:111-3, 1997.
  51. Caswell D, Williams JP, Vallejo M, Aaroda J, McNair N, Keckeisen M, Yale C, Cryer HG, Improving pain management in critical care. Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement. 22: (10): 702-712, 1996.
  52. Cryer HG, Therapeutic approaches for clinical ischemia and reperfusion injury. Shock: Volume 8 (1):26-32, 1997
  53. Lo, C, Cryer HG, Fu M, Kim E.: Endotoxin induced macrophage gene expression is dependent on platelet activating factor (PAF) Archives of Surgery 132: 1342-7, 1997.
  54. Lo, C. M. Pu, R. Lo, G. Cryer: Prostaglandin E2 down-regulation of alveolar macrophages occurs at the posttranscriptional levels. Surgical Forum 48:56-58,1997.
  55. Lo C, Cryer HG, Fu M, Lo Fr: Regulation of macrophage eicosanoid generation is dependent on nuclear factor kappa B. Journal of Trauma 45: 19-23, 1998.
  56. Demetriades D, Murray J, Sinz B, Meirs, Chan L, Sathyavagiswaran L, Noguchi T, Bongard F, Cryer G, Gaspard D.: Epidemiology of Major Trauma and Trauma Deaths in Los Angeles County: Journal of American College of Surgeons 187: 373-383, 1998.
  57. Lo C, Fu M, Cryer HG: Interleukin 10 inhibits alveolar macrophage production of inflammatory mediators involved in adult respiratory distress syndrome. Journal of Surgical Research 79: 179-184, 1998.
  58. Cryer HG, Leong K, McArthur DL, Demetriades D, Bongard FS, Flemming AW, Hiatt JR, Kraus JF: Multiple organ failure after trauma: By the time you predict it, it's already there. Journal of Trauma 46:597-604, 1999.
  59. Leong K, Buga G, Ignarro LJ, Cryer HG. : iNOS mRNA expression in rat aortic endothelial cells peaks early following endotoxin treatment in vitro and may propagate hypotension in vivo. Surgical Forum XLIX: 104, 1998.
  60. Lo C, Fu M. Lo FR, Cryer G.: Macrophage TNF mRNA expression induced by LPS is regulated by sphingomyelin metabolites. Shock 1999.
  61. Lo C, Fu M, Lo FR, Cryer G: Cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) gene activation is regulated by cyclic adenosine monophosphate. Shock 13: 41-45, 2000.
  62. Barie PS, Coppa G, Lee PC, Fry DE, Cryer HG, Martens MG, Nichols RL, O'Leary JP, Rapp RP, Sirinek KR, Smith DW, Wilson SE, Wu D: Roundtable Discussion of Antibiotic Therapy in Surgical Infections. Surgical Infections Volume 1; 1: 79-89, 2000.
  63. Cryer H.: Advances in the Understanding of Multiple Organ Failure. Surgical Infections Volume 1: 3: 165-172, 2000.
  64. Murray JA, Demetriades D, Berne TV, Stratton S, Cryer HG, Bongard F, Fleming A, Gaspar D: Pre-Hospital Intubation in Severe Head Injured Patients. The Journal of Trauma 49: 1065-1070, 2000.
  65. Margulies DR, Cryer H, McArthur D, Lee S, Bongard F, Fleming A: Patient Volume per Surgeon Does Not Predict Survival in Adult Level I Trauma Centers. The Journal of Trauma 50: 597-603, 2001.
  66. Lewis RJ, Berry DA, Cryer H, Fost N, Krome R, Washington GR, Houghton J, Blue JW, Bechhofer R, Cook T, Fisher M: Monitoring a Clinical Trial Conducted Under the Food and Drug Administration Regulataions Allowing a Waiver of Prospective Informed Consent: The Diaspirin Cross-Linked Hemoglobin Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock Efficacy Trial. The Annals of Emergency Medicine 38:4, October 2001.
  67. Holly LT, Kelly DF, Counelis GJ, Blinman T, McArthur DL, Cryer HG: Cervical Spine Trauma Associated with Moderate and Severe Head Injury: Incidence, Risk Factors and Injury Characteristics. Journal of Neurosurgery 96(3 Supp):285-91, April 2002.
  68. Strickland PL, Gaspard DJ, Cryer HG, Saad S, Dru D, Carpenter C, Stain S, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Trauma Hospital Advisory Committee, Regional Quality Assurance Committee: Blunt Hepatic and Splenic Trauma at Community Hospital Trauma Centers: A Regional Quality Assessment.
  69. Kraus JF, Asa-Peek C, Cryer HG: Incidence, Severity and Patterns of Intrathoracic and Intra-Abdominal Injuries in Motorcycle Crashes. The Journal of Trauma 52(3):548-53, March 2002.
  70. Raman SS, Kadel BM, Vodopich DJ, Sayer J, Cryer H, Lu DS: Patient gender-related performance of non-focused helical computed tomography in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. J Comput Assist Tomography 27(4):583-9, July-August 2003.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Garrison RN, Cryer HM. Role of the microcirculation to skeletal muscle during shock. In: Perspectives in Shock Research: Metabolism, Immunology, Mediators, and Models. (Ed) Passmore JC. Progress in Clinical and Biological Research, Presented to the Shock Society, Fontana, Wisconsin, June 5-8,1988. Vol. 229, New York: American Shock Society, 1989, pp 43-52.
  2. Cryer HM. Immunologic dysfunction following trauma. In: Advances in Trauma. (Ed) Maull KI . Volume 6, pp 53-72, 1991.
  3. Reber HA, Cryer HM. Local complications of pancreatitis including pseudocyst and ascites. In: Medical and Surgical Diseases of the Pancreas. (Ed) Jorge E. Valenzuela, Howard A. Reber, and Andre Ribet. IGAKU-Shoin N. Y.2 Tokyo, 1991, pp 83-85.
  4. Rypins EB, Cryer HM. Non-shunt abdominal operations in cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension. In: Problems in General Surgery. Issue, Portal Hypertension, Philadelphia-Lippincott, Vol 9:pp 556-573, 1992.
  5. Cryer HM, Johnson E. Pelvic fractures. In: Trauma. (Ed) Feliciano DV. Appleton and Lange, 3rd Edition, 1995.
  6. Cryer HM. Pelvic fracture management. In: Current Surgical Therapy (Ed) Cameron JL. Fifth Edition, 1995.
  7. Cryer HM, Larmon B.: Patient care phase: Pre-hospital and resuscitation care. In: Greenfield L. (Ed), Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice, Second Edition, 1995.
  8. Blinman, Chandler, Cryer. Acute Renal Failure. In: Trauma, Fourth Edition. (Ed) Ernest Moore, David Feliciano, Kenneth Mattox. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., pp 1341-1368, 2000.
  9. Cryer HM: Multiple Organ Failure. In: Trauma Management. (Ed). Demetrios Demetriades, Juan Asensio. Landes Bioscience, pp 643-644, 2000.
  10. Cryer HM: Ischemia and Reperfusion as a Cause of Multiple Organ Failure. In: Multiple Organ Failure: Pathophysiology, Prevention, and Therapy. (Ed) Arthur E. Baue, Eugen Faist, and Donald E. Fry New York, Springer-Verlag, 2000.
  11. Cryer HM, Larmon B.: Patient care phase: Pre-hospital and resuscitation care. In: Greenfield L. (Ed), Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice, Third Edition, 2001.
  12. Cryer HM: Guidelines for Withdrawal of Care in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit. In: Current Surgical Therapy, 7th Edition, Mosby Inc., 2001.
  13. Cryer HM: Abdominal Injuries: General Techniques. In: Techniques in Complex Trauma Surgery. (Ed). Juan Asensio and Demetrios Demetriades. Harcourt Publishers Ltd., 2002.
  14. Blinman, Chandler, Cryer. Acute Renal Failure. In: Trauma, 5th Edition. (Ed) Ernest Moore, David Feliciano, Kenneth Mattox. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2004.

 

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PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS

  1. Cryer HM, Harris PD, Flint LM: Comparison of microcirculation responses to hemorrhage in anesthetized and decerebrate rats. Circulatory Shock 10#3:238, 1983.
  2. Cryer HM, Garrison RN, Harris PD, Anderson GL, Flint LM: Similarity in microvascular responses between hemorrhagic and bacteremic shock in decerebrate rats. Proc. International Union Physiol. Sci. 26:361, 1986 (#P367.24)
  3. Cryer HM, Garrison RN, Harris PD, Anderson GL: Microvascular responses during hyperdynamic and hypodynamic phase of bacteremia in decerebrate rats. Circulatory Shock 18#4:369, 1986 (#108).
  4. Cryer HM, Garrison RN, Harris PD, Fleming JT: Mefenamate inhibits pre and post-glomerular arteriole dilation in response to live E coli sepsis. Physiologist 29#4:123, 1986 (#24.8).
  5. Cryer HM, Garrison, RN, Greenwald BH, Alsip NL, Harris PD: Effects of cyproheptadine on skeletal muscle arteriolar responses to live E coli sepsis in decerebrate rats. Fed. Proc. 46#4:1524, 1987 (#M30).
  6. Luebbe, AS, Cryer HM, Harris PD, Garrison RN: Microcirculation in hypertensive rats during hyperdynamic E coli sepsis. Fed. Proc. 46#4:1533, 1987 (#M80).
  7. Luebbe AS, Harris PD, Cryer HM, Garrison RN: The influence of anesthesia and hypertension on skeletal muscle microcirculatory response to hyperdynamic E coli sepsis. Circulatory Shock 21#4:333, 1987 (#108).
  8. Cryer HM, Garrison RN, Harris PD: Skeletal muscle microcirculatory responses to hemorrhagic and septic shock. Proc. Fourth World Congr. Microcirculatory, Tokyo, Japan 1987.
  9. Cryer HM, Garrison RN, Harris PD: Comparison of renal, intestinal, and skeletal muscle arteriolar responses to hyperdynamic live E coli bacteremia in decerebrate rats. Proc. Fourth World Congr. Microcirculatory. Tokyo, Japan, 1987.
  10. Whitworth, PW, Garrison, RN, Cryer, HM, Baumgarten, TE, Harris, PD: Hypoperfusion of the intestinal microcirculation during high cardiac output live E coli sepsis in rats. Circulatory Shock 21 # 4:313, 1987 (#55)
  11. Cryer HM, Unger LS, Garrison RN, Harris PD: Prostaglandin inhibition impairs renal microvascular blood flow responses during hyperdynamic bacteremia. Circulatory Shock 21 #4:312, 1987 (#52).
  12. Luebbe AS, Garrison RN, Harris PD, Cryer HM: Altered intestinal microcirculatory responses to hyperdynamic E coli sepsis in reno-vascular hypertensive rats. Fed. Proc. 47#4, 1988.
  13. Luebbe AS, Garrison RN, Harris PD, Cryer HM: Are complement-induced arteriolar responses in skeletal muscle mediated by an endothelium-derived-relaxing factor (EDRF). Fed. Proc. 42#4, 1988.
  14. Cryer HM, Garrison RN, Harris PD: Prostaglandins participate in the decreased skeletal muscle microvascular tone caused by hyperdynamic live E coli bacteremia in decerebrate rats. Fed. Proc 47#4, 1988 (#M30).
  15. Sherman S, Cryer H, Shaked A, Busuttil R, Goldstein L. Endoscopic management of post-operative biliary fistulas (BF). Gastrointestal Endosc: 38:261Am 1992.
  16. Sherman S, Shaked A, Cryer H, Goldstein L, Busuttil R. Endoscopic management of biliary fistulas (BF) complicating liver transplantation (OLT) and other hepatobiliary surgeries (HBS). Gastrointestinal Endosc 39:331A, 1993.
  17. Gausch M, Karsteadt LL, Brueske PJ, Farmer PD, Loffredo AJ, Whitney SC, Cryer HG, Klein SL, Bongard FS, Lewis RJ. A comparison of outcome of patients treated in urban trauma centers and a rural trauma system. Academic Emergency Medicine, May 1997.
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PRESENTATIONS AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

  1. Effects of electrolyte or colloid infusion on the injured lung. Presented to the South Eastern Surgical Congress, Gold Medal Forum (3rd Place), Atlanta, Georgia, April 25-27, 1983.
  2. Comparison of microcirculation responses to hemorrhage in anesthetized and decerebrate rats. Presented to the Shock Society, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, June 6-8, 1983.
  3. Approaches to the management of shotgun injuries. Presented by mentor to the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Chicago Illinois, September 29-October 1, 1983.
  4. Liver cirrhosis and biliary surgery-assessment of risk. Presented by mentor to the Southern Medical Association, Baltimore, Maryland, and November 6-9,1983.
  5. Clarification of risk factors for abdominal operations in-patients with hepatic cirrhosis. Presented by mentor to the Southern Surgical Association, The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia, December 5-7, 1983.
  6. In vivo microcirculation responses to hemorrhage in anesthetized and awake rats. Presented to the Society of University Surgeons Residents meeting, Chicago, Illinois, February 8,1984.
  7. Microcirculatory norepinephrine constrictor response in hemorrhagic shock. Presented by mentor to the Society of University Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois, February 9-11,1984.
  8. Effect of tissue acidosis on skeletal muscle microcirculatory responses to hemorrhagic shock in unanesthetized rats. Presented to the Association for Academic Surgery, San Antonio, Texas, November 1-3, 1984.
  9. Similarity in microvascular responses between hemorrhagic and bacteremic shock in decerebrate rats. Presented to the Proc. International Union Physiol Science, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1986.
  10. Skeletal microcirculatory responses to hyperdynamic E. coli sepsis in unanesthetized rats. Presented to the Surgical Infection Society, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1986.
  11. Microvascular responses during hyperdynamic and hypodynamic phases of bacteremia in decerebrate rats. Presented to the Shock Society, Scottsdale, Arizona, June, 1986.
  12. Role of muscle microvasculature during hyperdynamic and hypodynamic phases of endotoxin shock in decerebrate rats. Presented to the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Honolulu, Hawaii, September, 1986.
  13. Mefenamate inhibits pre and post-glomerular arteriole dilation in response to live E. coli sepsis. Presented to the American Physiological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1986.
  14. Effects of cyproheptadine on skeletal muscle arteriolar responses to live E. coli sepsis in decerebrate rats. Presented to FASEB, St. Louis, Missouri, April, 1987.
  15. Microcirculation in hypertensive rats during hyperdynamic E. coli sepsis. Presented to FASEB, St. Louis, Missouri, April, 1987.
  16. The influence of anesthesia and hypertension on skeletal muscle microcirculatory response to hyperdynamic E. coli sepsis. Presented to the Shock Society, Montreal, Canada, June, 1987.
  17. Prostaglandin inhibition impairs renal microvascular blood flow responses during hyperdynamic bacteria. Presented to the US and International Shock Societies (Young Investigator Award in Shock Research) Montreal, Canada, June, 1987.
  18. Hypoperfusion of the intestinal microcirculation during high cardiac output live E coli sepsis in rats. Presented by resident to the US and International Shock Societies, Montreal, Canada, June, 1987.
  19. Skeletal muscle microcirculatory responses to hemorrhagic and septic shock. Presented at Symposium on Microvascular Mechanisms During Low Flow States to the Fourth World Congress for Microcirculation, Tokyo, Japan, July, 1987.
  20. Comparison of renal, intestinal and skeletal muscle arteriolar responses to hyperdynamic lives E. coli bacteremia in decerebrate rats. Presented to the Fourth World Congress for Microcirculation, Tokyo, Japan, July, 1987.
  21. Pelvic fracture classification: Correlation with hemorrhage. Presented to the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Montreal, Canada, September 1987.
  22. Hypertension alters microvascular responses in skeletal muscle to hyperdynamic bacteremia and hypodynamic E coli sepsis. Presented by resident to the Association for Academic Surgery, Orlando, Florida, November, 1987.
  23. Pelvic fracture hemorrhage: priorities in management. Presented by resident to the VA Surgeons Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 11-13, 1988.
  24. Unnecessary laparotomies for trauma-physical exam versus diagnostic peritoneal lavage. Presented by resident to the Southern Medical Association, 1988.
  25. Altered intestinal microcirculatory responses to hyperdynamic E. coli sepsis in renovascular hypertensive rats. Presented to The Microcirculation Society, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1988.
  26. Are complement-induced arteriolar responses in skeletal muscle mediated by an endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF)? Presented by resident to FASEB, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1988.
  27. Prostaglandins participate in the decreased skeletal muscle microvascular tone caused by hyperdynamic live E. coli bacteremia in decerebrate rats. Presented to the Microcirculation Society, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1988.
  28. Unnecessary laparotomies for trauma-physical exam versus diagnostic peritoneal lavage. Presented by resident at Kentucky Chapter-American College of Surgeons Spring Meeting, Frankfort, Kentucky, April 15-16, 1988.
  29. University of Louisville Burn Unit: Results of the first three years. Presented at Kentucky Chapter-American College of Surgeons Spring Meeting. Frankfort, Kentucky, April 15-16, 1988.
  30. Pelvic fracture hemorrhage: Priorities in management. Presented by resident at Kentucky Chapter-American College of Surgeons Spring Meeting. Frankfort, Kentucky, April 15-16, 1988.
  31. Hypertonic Saline-Dextran improves skeletal muscle microvascular blood flow and cardiac output after decompensated hemorrhagic shock. Presented to the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Newport Beach, California, October, 1988.
  32. Role of CT in diagnosis of major arterial injuries after blunt thoracic trauma. Presented by co-investigator to the 46th Annual Meeting of the Central Surgical Association, Baniff, Alberta Canada, March 8-11, 1989.
  33. A differential response of the microvasculature in the liver during bacteremia. Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Shock Society, Marco Island, Florida, June 9-12, 1989.
  34. The management of penetrating pelvic trauma. Presented by co-investigator to the 5th Annual Assembly of the Southeastern Surgical Congress, Tarpon, Florida, January 25-27, 1989.
  35. Oxygen delivery in-patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome who undergo surgery: Correlation with multiple-system organ failure. Presented at 9th Annual Meeting of the Surgical Infection Society, Denver, Colorado, April 13, 1989.
  36. A prospective randomized comparison between open and closed peritoneal lavage techniques. Presented by resident to the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Naples, Florida, January 10-13, 1990.
  37. Shock transfusion and pneumonectomy: Death due to right heart failure and increased pulmonary vascular resistance. Presented at the 12th Annual Conference on Shock, Marco Island, Florida, June 10, 1989.
  38. Packing and planned re exploration for hemorrhage: Critical refinement of a useful technique. Presented to the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Chicago, Illinois, October 5, 1989.
  39. A randomized prospective study of topical antimicrobial agents on skin grafts after thermal injury. Presented by resident to the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma in Long Boat Key, Florida, January, 1989.
  40. Prostaglandins mediate skeletal muscle arteriolar dilation in hypodynamic bacteremia. Presented to the 12th Annual Meeting of the Shock Society, Marco Island, Florida, June 9-12, 1989.
  41. 41. Non thermal surgical complications in burn patients. Read by resident before the Section on Surgery, Southern Medical Association, 84th Annual Scientific Assembly, Nashville, Tennessee, October 14-17, 1990.
  42. Pentoxifylline but not saralasin restores hepatic blood flow after resuscitation for hemorrhagic shock. Presented by resident at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Academic Surgery, Houston, Texas, November 14-17, 1990.
  43. Absorptive hyperemia restores intestinal blood flow during Escherichia coli sepsis in the rat. Read by resident before the 14th Annual Surgical Symposium of the Association of Veterans Affairs Surgeons, Charleston, SC, May 7, 1990.
  44. Pentoxifylline restores intestinal microvascular blood flow during resuscitated hemorrhagic shock. Presented at the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of The Society of University Surgeons, Galveston, Texas, February 7-9, 1991.
  45. Concussive brain injury adversely affects hemodynamic compensation during hemorrhagic shock. To be presented by resident at the Surgical Forum Critical Care-Shock/Trauma Session of the 79th Annual Clinical Congress of The American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA., October 11, 1993.
  46. Elevated serum levels of ICAM-1, but not TNF-Receptor, correlate with the development of multiple organ failure in trauma patients. To be presented by resident at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, New Orleans, La., Sept, 1993.
  47. Sherman S, Cryer H, Shaked A, Busuttil R, Goldstein L. Endoscopic management of postoperative biliary fistulas (BF). Presented by co-author to the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, San Francisco, CA. May, 1992.
  48. Sherman S, Shaked A, Cryer H, Goldstein L. Busuttil R. Endoscopic management of biliary fistulas (BF) complicating liver transplantation (OLT) and other hepatobiliary surgeries (HBS). Presented by co-author to American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Boston MA., May, 1993
  49. Cryer H.G. Systemic inflammatory mediators associated with multiple organ failure after severe injury. Presented at the 3rd International Congress on The Immune Consequences of Trauma, Shock and Sepsis-Mechanisms and Therapeutic Approaches, Munich, Germany, March 4, 1994
  50. Lo C, Cryer G, RV Maier. Calcium and calmodulin regulate LPS-induced alveolar macrophage production of tumor necrosis factor and procoagulant activity. Surgical Infection Society, Louisville, Kentucky, 1995.
  51. Lo C, Cryer G. Prostaglandin E2 production by endotoxin stimulated alveolar macrophages is regulated by phospholipase C pathways. American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995.
  52. Cryer HG, Hiatt JR, Fleming AW, Gruen JP, Sterling J. Standard audit filters are of limited value in an established trauma system. Presented at the 55th Annual meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Sept, 1995.
  53. Lo C, Cryer G. Prostacyclin analog, iloprost, modulates alveolar macrophage responses to endotoxin. Association for Academic Surgery, Dearborn, Michigan. 1995.
  54. Lo C, Cryer G. Interleukin 10 (IL-10) inhibits alveolar macrophage production of inflammatory mediators involved in adult respiratory distress syndrome. Society of Critical Care Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 1996.
  55. Drazan KE, Wu L, Cryer HM, Lo J, Busuttil RW, Shakeed A. TGF beta gene transfusion in vivo: A strategy for modulation of the hepatic response to endotoxin shock. The Region IX ACS COT resident paper competition. 1st place paper and ACS COT Resident Paper Competition, Los Angeles, CA. Dec 4, 1995.
  56. Lo C, Fu M, Cryer G. Endotoxin-induced macrophage gene expression is dependent in platelet activating factor. (PAF) Presented at the Surgical Infection Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1996.
  57. Gausche M, Karseadt LL, Brueske PJ, Farmer PD, Loffredo AJ, Whitney SC, Cryer, HG, Klein SL, Bongard FS, Lewis RJ. A comparison of outcome of patients treated in urban trauma centers and a rural trauma system. Presented at the SAEM Annual Meeting, May, 19-22, 1997.
  58. Loffredo AJ, Gausche M, Brueske PJ, Henneman PL, Cryer HG, de Vitgilio C, Klein SL, Bongard FS, Lewis RJ. Field hypotension in trauma patients is an independent predictor of the need for emergent therapeutic surgery. Presented at the SAEM Annual Meeting, May 19-22, 1997.
  59. Lo, C. Fu M, Lo R, Cryer G. Regulation of macrophage excess anode generation is dependent on nuclear factor Kb (NFKB). Presented at the 57th Annual meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Viakoloa, Hawaii. September 26-27, 1997.
  60. Leong K, Ignarro LJ, Cryer HG. Nitric oxide (NO) infusum ameliorates vascular smooth muscle vasodilator dysfunction after resuscitation from decompensated hemorrhagic shock. Presented at the 57th Annual meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Wialoloa, Hawaii, September 24-27, 1997.
  61. Leong K, Buga G, Ignarro LJ, Cryer HG. iNOS mRNA expression in rat aortic endothelial cells peaks early following endotoxin treatment in vitro and may propagate hypotension in vivo. Presented at the 84th Clinical Congress of The American College of Surgeons, The Surgical Forum, October 26, 1998, Orlando, Florida.
  62. McGory Marcia, Cryer HG, Chandler Charles, Cohen Marilyn, Hiatt, Jonathan. The Santa Monica Crash: Analysis of an Urban Disaster. Presented at the 15th Annual Conference of the Southern California Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, January 16-18, 2004, Santa Barbara, California.

 

INVITED FACULTY ON NATIONAL OR LOCAL CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION CONFERENCES

  1. Faculty for American College of Surgeons Post-Graduate Course: Multidisciplinary care of the injured patient, 1988 Clinical Congress American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois.
    Lecture: "Shock and tissue perfusion", October 26, 1988.
  2. Faculty for the 1991 California Trauma Conference.
    Lecture: "Defining resuscitation endpoints - when is a patient out of shock?," Feb 15, 1991.
    Case Presentations: "Critical care of the trauma patient: Case Management, Feb 16, 1991.
  3. Faculty for University of California, Los Angeles/Harbor Department of Surgery Grand Rounds.
    Lecture: "Management priorities in pelvic fracture," March 21, 1991.
  4. Faculty for University of California Irvine Department of Surgery Grand Rounds.
    Lecture: "Management of pancreatic and duodenal injuries" 1991
  5. Faculty for UCLA Division of General Surgery Grand Rounds:
    1. Lecture: "Splanchnic microcirculatory responses to hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation," Sept 15, 1990.
    2. Lecture: "Basic science update in shock and sepsis" November 2, 1991.
    3. Lecture: "Colonic surgery for inflammatory bowel disease," October 12, 1991.
    4. Moderator and Lecture: "Controversies in surgery crystalloid vs colloid in fluid resuscitation," Jan 11, 1992.
    5. Moderator and Lecture: "Blunt abdominal trauma; diagnostic peritoneal lavage vs. computed tomography," May 9, 1992.
    6. Lecture: "Multi-organ system blunt trauma," October 31, 1992 Course Chairman and Faculty for American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Sponsored Advanced Trauma Life Support Course, UCLA, June, 1992
    7. Lecture: "Shock", June 1992.

  6. Faculty for American College of Surgeons Post graduate course: Critical Decision Points in Trauma Care, New Orleans, LA.
    Lecture: "The pelvic fracture and continuing blood loss", October 15, 1992.
  7. Faculty for the 1993 California Trauma Conference.
    Lecture: "What's new in the management of the septic patient," January 15, 1993.
    Case presentation: The most challenging cases from California Trauma Centers, January 15, 1993
    Case presentation: Spectacular trauma cases from California Trauma Centers-Critical Care Management, January 16, 1993.
  8. Faculty on UCLA Multicampus Critical Care Program 1992 - 1993 Lecture Series.
    Lecture: "What's new in hemorrhagic shock," March 11, 1993.
  9. Faculty for UCLA/MLK Drew Department of Surgery Grand Rounds.
    Lecture: "Treatment priorities in the management of bleeding from pelvic fractures", April,1993.
  10. Faculty for the UCLA 30th Annual Controversial Areas in General Surgery Program.
    Moderator: Controversies in Trauma and Critical Care, April 21, 1993.
    Lecture: "Anti-mediator treatment of sepsis; is the future now?" April 21,1993.
    Lecture: " The critically ill patient; how far should we go, and when is it OK to actively withdraw care?"
  11. Faculty for University of California Santa Barbara Surgery Grand Rounds.
    Lecture: "Management priorities in blunt trauma," May,1993.
  12. Course Chairman and Faculty for American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Sponsored Advanced Trauma Life Support Course UCLA, May 1993.
    Lecture: "Shock"
    Lecture: "Extremity Trauma"
    Lecture: "Stabilization and Transport"
  13. Faculty for Legacy Health Systems Trauma and Critical Care Conference; Emanuel Hospital and Health Center, Portland, Oregon.
    Lecture: "Future Anti-inflammatory Mediators"
    Part 1 - Antioxidants May 29, 1993
    Lecture: "Future Anti-inflammatory Mediators"
    Part II - Anticytokines, May 29, 1993
    Moderator: Session V: Nutrition, May 29, 1993.
  14. Grand Rounds speaker, King Drew Medical Center, Los Angeles, California April 9, 1998
    Lecture: Management priorities in blunt trauma.
  15. UCLA School of Nursing Critical Care Post-Graduate Course, Los Angeles, CA. May 11,1993.
    Lecture: Technology in Critical Care.
  16. UCLA Urology Grand Rounds, Los Angeles, CA., August 28,1993.
    Lecture: Management of Urologic Trauma.
  17. Loma Linda Department of Surgery Grand Rounds, Loma Linda, CA., Sept 15, 1993.
    Lecture: Oxygen Delivery and Consumption Monitoring in Surgical Critical Care.
  18. Fifth Annual California Trauma Conference/University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, January, 20-22,1994
    Lecture: Tonometric Ph Monitoring in Critical Care.
  19. Third International Congress on the Immune Consequences of Trauma Shock and Sepsis/Munich Germany, March 1,1994
    Lecture: Systemic Inflammatory Mediators Associated with Multiple Organ Failure after Severe Injury.
  20. Director/ATLS Course, UCLA Medical Center, April 22,23, 1994.
    Lecture: 1) Extremity Trauma, 2) Surgical Skills, 3) Head Trauma, 4) Burns
  21. Annual USC Trauma and Critical Care Symposium/Pasadena California, June 16, 17, 1994
    Lecture: 1) Blunt Chest Trauma, 2) The Septic ICU Patient/What's new?
  22. Northridge Hospital Medical Center Grand Rounds/Northridge, California, July 12, 1994.
    Lecture: Gastric Tonometry in the ICU.
  23. American College of Surgeons Surgical Forum: Critical Care IV/Chicago, Illinois. October 10, 1994
    Moderator: Session/Inflammation
    Lecture: Anti-inflammatory Mediator Strategies to Treat Multiple Organ Failure.
  24. ATLS Course Kern Medical Center/Bakersfield, CA., November 5, 1994.
    Lectures: 1) Thoracic Trauma, 2) Identification of Thoracic Injuries.
  25. Holy Cross Medical Center Grand Rounds/Mission Hills, CA., November 29, 1994.
    Lecture: Assessment of the Multi-injured Patient.
  26. Trauma Session, Southern California Chapter ACS Meeting/Indian Well, CA., January 21,1995.
    Moderator: Trauma Plenary Session.
    Lecture: Pancreatica-duodenal Trauma
  27. California Trauma Conference/San Diego, CA., January 27, 1995
    Moderator: Intra Abdominal Trauma
    Lecture: The Widened Mediastinum
  28. UCLA Controversies in Trauma Conference/Los Angeles, CA., March 8,1995.
    Lecture: The Los Angeles Trauma System.
  29. UCLA Controversial Areas in General Surgery/Palm Desert, CA., March 21,1995.
    Moderator: Surgical Critical Care.
    Lecture: Tonometric pH Monitoring in Surgical Critical Care.
  30. UCLA Department of Surgery Chairman's Hour/Los Angeles, CA., March 22,1995
    Lecture: Trauma Management.
  31. Robert F. Kennedy Medical Center Grand Rounds/Los Angeles, CA., April 13,1995.
    Lecture: Fungal Infections in Surgery Patients.
  32. Trauma Grand Rounds/UC Irvine, April 14,1994.
    Lecture: Duodenal and Pancreatic Trauma.
  33. Director ATLS Course UCLA Medical Center/Los Angeles, CA., April 28, 29,1995.
    Lectures: 1) Initial Assessment, 2) Surgical Skills, 3) Vascular Access and Monitoring, 4) Extremity Trauma, 5) Spinal Immobilization, 6) Injury Due to Burns and Cold.
  34. Faculty USC Annual Trauma/Critical Care Symposium/Pasadena, CA., May 31, 1995.
    Lecture: ICP Monitoring: Indications and Therapeutic Strategies.
  35. Daniel Freedman Marina Hospital Grand Rounds/Los Angeles, CA., June 16, 1995.
    Lecture: Fungal Infections in the Surgical Patient.
  36. Director ATLS Course UCLA Medical Center/Los Angeles, CA., September 15,16,1995.
    Lectures: 1) Initial Assessment, 2) Shock, 3) Surgical Skills, 4) Vascular Access Monitoring, 5) Extremity Trauma, 6) Spinal Immobilization, 7) Injury due to Burns and Cold, 8) Trauma in Pregnancy.
  37. 55th Annual Meeting of The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and Trauma Association of Canada; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Sept 28, 1995.
    Lecture: Ventilator Management.
  38. American College of Surgeons Post-Graduate Course: Trauma/New Orleans, La., October 22, 1995.
    Lecture: Airway Management.
  39. American College of Surgeons Post-Graduate Course: Critical Care/New Orleans, LA. October 22, 23, 1995.
    Lecture: Ischemic Reperfusion in Shock.
    Lecture: Inflammatory Mediators in Sepsis
    Moderator: Infection Session
  40. St. Francis Medical Center Trauma Grand Rounds/ Lynnwood, CA., November 22, 1995.
    Lecture: Assessment of The multi-injured Patient.
  41. Chairman/American College of Surgeons Region Nine Resident Paper Competition/Los Angeles, Ca., December 4,1995.
    Moderator: Trauma Resident Paper Competition.
  42. St. Lukes Hospital Grand Rounds/Boise, Idaho, December 13, 1997.
    Lecture: Fungal Infection in the ICU.
  43. Mercy Medical Center Grand Rounds/Nampa, Idaho, December 13, 1995.
    Lecture: Fungal Infection in the Surgical ICU.
  44. Utah Valley Regional Medical Center Grand Rounds/Provo, Utah. December 14,1995.
    Lecture: Fungal Infection in the ICU.
  45. USC Department of Surgery Grand Rounds/Los Angeles, CA., January,1996.
    Lecture: Management Priorities in Blunt Trauma.
  46. Faculty California Trauma Conference/Sacramento, CA., January 18, 19,1996.
    Lecture: Controversies in Resuscitation from Hemorrhagic Shock.
  47. Southern California Chapter American College of Surgeons Board of Directors Meeting, January 21, 1996.
    Moderator: Plenary Session on Trauma.
  48. Grand Rounds Carson Tahoe Hospital/Carson City, Nevada, January 22,1996.
    Lecture: Fungal Infections in Critically Ill Patients.
  49. Grand Rounds Washoe Medical Center/Reno, Nevada, January 22,1996.
    Lecture: Fungal Infections in Critically Ill Patients.
  50. UCLA Department of Surgery Grand Rounds/Los Angeles, CA, February 21,1996.
    Lecture: Acute Abdomen.
  51. Controversies in Emergency Medicine Conference/Los Angeles, CA., March 6,1996.
    Lecture: Management Priorities in Trauma.
  52. Grand Rounds Kern Medical Center/Bakersfield, CA., March 27, 1996.
    Lecture: Assessment of the Multi-injured Patient.
  53. American College of Surgeons Trauma and Critical Care Course/Las Vegas, Nevada, April 1,1996.
    Lecture: 1) Evaluating Urologic Injuries, 2) Splenic Re-implantation.
  54. Grand Round/Fresno, CA., April 18,1996.
    Lecture: Presumptive Treatment for Fungal Infections in Surgical Patients.
  55. Grand Rounds Valley Medical Center/Fresno, CA., April 19,1996.
    Lecture: Fungal Infection in the Surgical Patient.
  56. Grand Rounds Cottage Hospital/Santa Barbara, CA., May 21,1996.
    Lecture: Management Priorities in Blunt Trauma.
  57. Shock Society/Traverse Village, Michigan, June 2,1996.
    Lecture: Clinical Strategies for the Treatment of Ischemic Reperfusion Syndromes.
  58. Sixth World Congress for Microcirculation/Munich, Germany, August 25,1996.
    Lecture: Clinical Strategies for the Treatment of Ischemic Reperfusion Syndrome.
  59. Chairman American College of Surgeons Post-Graduate Course in Surgical Critical Care/Chicago, Ill., October 7,1996.
    Lectures: 1) Surgical Intensive Care in the Managed Care Era, 2) Guidelines for withdrawal of Care in the ICU.
  60. Chairman California Trauma Conference/Los Angeles, CA., January 9-11,1997.
    Lecture: Quality Filters. Is it Quality of Patient Satisfaction? Moving Beyond the ACS?
  61. Southern California Chapter American College of Surgeons/Dana Point Laguna Beach, CA. January 18, 1997.
    Moderator: Plenary Session on Trauma.
  62. UCLA Controversies in Emergency Medicine/Los Angeles, CA., March 5,1997.
    Lecture: Case Studies in Trauma.
  63. Management Challenges in the Septic Patient Conference/Squaw Creek, Lake Tahoe, CA., March 14,1997.
    Lecture: Nutritional Support of the Septic Patient.
  64. American College of Surgeons Postgraduate Course/Monitoring Modalities in the ICU/San Diego, CA., April 8,1997.
    Lecture: Monitoring Oxygen Transport
    Workshop: Advanced Ventilator Management
  65. Symposium: "Monitoring in the SICU": Contemporary Surgery.
    Chicago, Ill, October, 1997
  66. Grand Rounds/Long Beach Community Hospital
    April 24, 1997
    Lecture: Anti Fungal Infection Strategies in the ICU
  67. Grand Rounds/Daniel Freeman Hospital
    Los Angeles, CA., April 25, 1997
    Lecture: Systemic Fungal Infections in the Surgical ICU
  68. Grand Rounds Harbor UCLA
    Torrance, CA. May 1, 1997
    Lecture: Pancreatic and Duodenal Injuries
  69. 4th Annual USC Trauma/Critical Care Symposium
    Pasadena CA., May 23, 1997
    Lecture: Damage Control Operations
  70. ATLS/Student Course
    UCLA Medical Center, June 27, 28, 1997
    Lecture: Injury Due to Burns and Cold
              Transfer to Definitive Care
  71. ATLS/Instructor Update Course
    Loma Linda, CA., July 6, 1997
  72. Grand Rounds/Tarzana Medical Center
    Tarzana, CA., August 1, 1997
    Lecture: Post Surgical Infection
  73. Surgery Grand Rounds/UCLA Medical Center
    Los Angeles, CA., September 1997
    Lecture: New Concepts in Multiple Organ Failure
  74. Director/ATLS Instructor Course/USC
    Los Angeles, CA., September 11, 12, 13, 1997
  75. American College of Surgeons/Post Graduate Course in Outpatient Surgery
    Chicago, IL. October 13-16, 1997
    Moderator
  76. Grand Rounds/Tarzana Medical Center
    Tarzana, CA., November 7, 1997
    Lecture: Surgical Infection
  77. Grand Rounds/Santa Clara Hospital
    San Jose, CA., February 18, 1998
    Lecture: Progress in Multiple Organ Failure
  78. Grand Rounds/Providence Holy Cross Medical Center
    Mission Hills, CA., February 24, 1998
    Lecture: Spinal Cord Injury Care
  79. Grand Rounds/Cottage Hospital
    Santa Barbara, CA., March 3, 1998
    Lecture: Intra Abdominal Infection
  80. Grand Rounds/Harbor UCLA Medical Center
    Torrance, CA., March 27, 1998
    Lecture: Prancreatodudenal Trauma
  81. Controversies in Emergency Medicine\UCLA Medical Center
    Griffin Commons Conference Center; April 8, 1998
    Lecture: Studies in Trauma
  82. American College of Surgeons Spring Meeting
    Post Graduate Course in Vascular Surgery
    Baltimore, Maryland, April 27, 1998
    Lecture: Pelvic Vascular Injury
  83. USC Trauma Course
    Pasadena, CA., May 15, 1998
    Lecture: Lung Resection for Trauma
  84. Grand Rounds
    Portland, Oregon, May 18, 1998
    Lecture: Advances in Multiple Organ Failure after Trauma
  85. ATLS Student Course
    UCLA Medical Center
    Los Angeles, CA., May 29, 30,1998
  86. CME Meeting/Queen of Angels Hospital
    Los Angeles, CA., November 13, 1998
    Lecture: Trauma in the First 24 Hours
  87. California Trauma Conference
    San Francisco, CA., December 4, 5, 1998
    Lecture: Carotid Artery Injuries
  88. 7th Annual General Surgeon's National Advisory Meeting
    Frenchman's Reef, St. Thomas, April 9, 1999
    Lecture: Definitions and Quantitation of Organ Dysfunction
  89. Trauma Symposium
    Taipei, Taiwan, April 17, 1999
    Lecture: Trauma
  90. Controversies in Emergency Medicine Conference
    Marina Del Rey, CA, April 29, 1999
    Lecture: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Modalities of Unstable Pelvic Fracture
  91. American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
    Boston, Massacusetts, September 12-15, 1999
    Lecture: Prehospital Resuscitation with Phenylephrine in Uncontrolled Hemorrhagic Shock and Brain Injury
  92. ATLS/Course Director
    University of California, Irvine
    Los Angeles, CA., October 29, 1999
  93. ATLS/Course Director
    University of California, Los Angeles
    Los Angeles, CA., February 25-26, 2000
  94. Trauma, Shock, Inflammation and Sepsis
    Munich, Germany, February 29-March 4, 2000
    Lecture: Signal Transduction
  95. National Surgical Consultants Meeting for Primaxin I.V.
    Banff, Canada, March 9-12, 2000
    Lecture:
  96. National Surgical Consultants Meeting
    Sonoma, California, March 30-April 2, 2000
    Lecture: Nosocomial Infections in the Trauma Patient: Are Trauma Patients Different from General Surgery Patients
  97. Shock Trauma Society
    Snowbird, Utah, June 3-6,2000
    Lecture: Understanding SIRS and MOF: Time to Change Perspective
  98. American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
    San Antonio, Texas, October 12-14, 2000
    Lecture: Thrombin-Mediated Permeability of Human Microvascular Pulmonary Endothelial Cells is Calcium-Dependent
  99. Western Surgical Association
    Laguna Niguel, CA, November 12-15, 2000
  100. California Trauma Conference
    Sacramento, CA, January 4-5, 2001
    Lecture: Gastric Tonometry: Is it Really Useful?
  101. Society of Critical Care Medicine Symposium
    San Francisco, CA, February 10-14, 2001
    Lecture: Cytokine Activation in Gram-Positive Infections- Cytokine Activation and Regulation in the Surgical Patient
  102. Western Trauma Association
    Big Sky, MD, February 22-28, 2001
    Lecture: Lessons Learned from LA Experience
  103. Trauma & Critical Care 2001
    Las Vegas, NV, March 18-20, 2001
    Lecture: Apoptosis: The Death Sentence for the Cell
  104. USC Annual Trauma Critical Care Symposium
    Los Angeles, CA, April 16-17, 2001
    Lecture: Clinical approaches to ischemia and reperfusion injuries
  105. University of Arizona Grand Rounds
    Phoeniz, AZ, May 3, 2001
  106. Trauma Symposium
    Queen's Medical Center
    Big Island, Hawaii, May 26, 2001
    Lecture: Serious Abdominal Injuries
    Prioritization in the Hypotensive Multiply Injured Patient
  107. Trauma Symposium
    Queen's Medical Center
    Maui, Hawaii, October 27, 2001
    Lecture: Serious Abdominal Injuries
              Prioritization in the Hypotensive Multiply Injured Patient
  108. California Trauma Conference
    Santa Barbara, CA, January 24-26, 2002
    Director of California Trauma Conference
  109. USC Annual Trauma Critical Care Symposium
    Pasadena, CA, May 13-14, 2002
    Lecture: The Injured Lung: Pulmonary Resection or Tractotomy?
  110. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
    Department of Anesthesiology
    Los Angeles, CA, January 15, 2003
    Lecture: Priorities in the Management of the Hypotensive Trauma Patient
  111. California Trauma Conference
    Santa Barbara, CA, January 16-18, 2003
    Director of California Trauma Conference
  112. USC Annual Trauma Critical Care Symposium
    Pasadena, CA, May 12-13, 2003
    Lecture: Head to Head
  113. Providence Holy Cross Hospital
    Mission Hills, CA, May 16, 2003
    Lecture: Multiple Traumatic Injury-Prioritization of Management
  114. CDC Alcohol and Other Drug Problems among Hospitalized Trauma Patients
    Washington DC, May 28-30, 2003
    Lecture: Barriers to Alcohol Abuse Interventions in Trauma Centers
  115. UCLA Trauma Symposium
    September 25, 2003
    Lecture: Geriatric Trauma
    Lecture: Abdominal Trauma
  116. American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress
    Chicago, IL, October 19-23, 2003
    Lecture: The Unstable Pelvis: Ex-Fix, Angio?, Operate?
  117. Johnson & Johnson Wound Management
    November 14-15, 2003
    Trauma Surgery Advisory Panel Meeting
  118. Cedars-Sinai Ground Rounds
    December 11, 2003, Los Angeles, CA
    Lecture: "Priorities in the Hypotensive Multiply Injured Patient"
  119. California Trauma Conference
    Santa Barbara, CA, January 15-17, 2004
    Lecture: "What's New in Trauma?"
              "Management of the Hypotensive Patient with Pelvic Fracture"
  120. "February in Phoenix" Trauma Symposium St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
    Scottsdale, AZ, February 5-6, 2004
    Lecture: Priorities in Management of the Severely Injured Patient
              Barriers to Alcohol Screening & Interventions in the Trauma Center
  121. Society of Trauma Nurses 7th Annual Conference
    Las Vegas, NV, March 20-21, 2004
    Lecture: The New Battleground in Trauma: The Angiography Suite
  122. Trauma & Critical Care Symposium
    Las Vegas, NV, March 22-24, 2004
    Lecture: "Wound Vac Devices"
              "Impact of Regulations on Trauma Training"
  123. Taiwan Annual Meeting
    Taipei, Taiwan, March 27-29, 2004
    Lecture: "Advances in Trauma"
              "Fluid Resuscitation"
  124. USC Trauma Symposium
    Pasadena, CA, May 11-12, 2004
    Lecture: "In house Intervention is Effective in Alcoholic Trauma Patients"
              "Surgery in Hollywood" Panel Discussion
  125. Los Robles Medical Center
    Thousand Oaks, CA, June 4, 2004
    Lecture: "Multiple Traumatic Injury, Prioritization of Management"
  126. American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
    Maui, HI, September 28-October 2, 2004
    Lecture: "In the Beginning"
  127. American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress
    New Orleans, LA, October 10-14, 2004
    Lecture: "Caval and Retrohepatic Venous Injuries"
  128. Scripps Mercy Hospital Trauma Service
    San Diego, CA, December 3-4, 2004
    Lecture: Complex Pelvic Fractures
 
Updated: May 8, 2006