Research-Scholarship Committee
The Research-Scholarship Committee is responsible for reviewing applications and selecting the recipients of the Trauma Research Scholarship and John M. Templeton, Jr., MD Injury Prevention Research Scholarship. The committee works closely with the EAST Development Committee in managing existing scholarships as well as identifying and developing new scholarship opportunities. This committee is also responsible for reviewing requests to survey the EAST membership for research related purposes.
Committee members are appointed by the President with approval by the Board of Directors. Committee member terms are three years. All terms begin in January and conclude in January in the year specified in "term ends".
Members
Niels D. Martin, MD, Chair- University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA
- Term ends 01/18/2025
Bruce Chung, MD, Committee Member- Dartmouth Hitchcock in ,
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Ryan P. Dumas, MD, Committee Member- Baylor College of Medicine in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Michael Goodman, MD, FACS, Committee Member- University of Cincinnati Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/18/2025
Kazuhide Matsushima, MD, Committee Member- LAC+USC Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/18/2025
Susannah Nicholson, MD, Committee Member- UTHSCSA in San Antonio, TX
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Jacob Peschman, MD, MSPE, FACS, Committee Member- Medical College of Wisconsin in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Timothy A. Pritts, MD, PhD, Committee Member- University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Jillian Richter, PhD, Committee Member- University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, AL
- Term ends 01/18/2025
James T. Ross, MD, Committee Member- University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve in Cleveland,
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Sharven Taghavi, MD, MPH, MS, FACS, Committee Member- Tulane University School of Medicine in ,
- Term ends 01/18/2025
Rachael A. Callcut, MD, MSPH, FACS, Ex Officio- UC Davis in Sacramento, CA
- Term ends 01/18/2025
Leah C. Tatebe, MD, FACS, Ex Officio- Northwestern University in Chicago, IL
- Term ends 01/18/2025