SURG - Children's Emergency & Trauma Care in the US Health System: Looking Back and Forward - Mary E. Fallat, MD (Norton Children’s Hospital - Louisville, KY)

About this presenter:

Mary E. Fallat, MD
Professor, The Hiram C. Polk, Jr., Department of Surgery
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Norton Children's Hospital

Mary Fallat, MD, FACS, FAAP is Professor of Surgery at the University of Louisville and an Attending Surgeon at Norton Children’s Hospital where she has been in practice for over 35 years. She is the former Surgeon-in-Chief at Norton Children’s Hospital and Division Director of Pediatric Surgery. Interest areas include access to surgical care, trauma and prehospital care, particularly in rural and underserved areas of the country. Within this context, Kentucky has provided an ideal setting to both study and improve emergency and trauma care for children. Dr. Fallat has a history of service and leadership in Pediatric Surgery and is past President of the American Pediatric Surgical Association and Chair of the Section on Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). She was a recent First Vice-President of the American College of Surgeons, is a liaison to the Committee on Trauma and is the Vice-Chair of the ACS Children’s Surgery Verification Program. Dr. Fallat has been funded by HRSA as program director for the Kentucky EMS for Children program since 2001. EMSC is where “pediatric readiness” is championed and she serves as trauma advisor to the National Pediatric Readiness Program (NPRP). She is a sub-PI for the trauma/burn hub for an awarded HRSA grant to develop a national pediatric pandemic network, which allows the pediatric trauma community the opportunity to enhance trauma care within an all-hazards network.