Executive Steering Committee

Philip C. Spinella, MD, FCCM   –  CO-CHAIR

Professor, Department of Surgery and Department of Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

USA


Geir Strandenes, MD, SMO NORNAVSOC  – CO-CHAIR

Senior Medical Officer, Norwegian Naval Special Operation Commando
Researcher, Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine
Haukeland University Hospital
Norway


Torunn Oveland Abelseth, MD, PhD

Senior Consultant
Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine
Haukeland University Hospital
Norway


COL Andrew P. Cap, MD, PhD, FACP

Medical Corps, US Army
Chief, Blood Research, US Army Institute of Surgical Research
Medical Director, Akeroyd Blood Donor Center
Associate Professor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University
Program Director, Clinical Research Fellowship
Deputy Hematology-Oncology Consultant to the Surgeon General
Staff Hematologist-Oncologist, San Antonio Military Medical Center
USA


Marc De Pasquale, BS

18D Special Forces Medic
Paramedic NREMT
Deployment Medicine International
USA


Håkon Eliassen, MD

Norwegian Armed Forces
Norway


Brigadier General Elon Glassberg, MD, MHA

Prof. of Surgery
Head of the Medical Department
Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps
Israel


Donald H. Jenkins, MD, FACS, DMCC

COL USAF (Ret), Professor/Clinical, Division of Trauma and 
Emergency Surgery
Vice Chair for Quality, Department of Surgery
Associate Deputy Director, Military Health Institute
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
USA


Sean Keenan, MD, FAAEM FAWM

US Special Operations Command
USA


Joseph Rappold, MD, FACS

CAPT MC USN (Ret); Chief, Acute Care Surgery
Trauma Medical Director, Department of Surgery
Tufts University School of Medicine
Maine Medical Center
USA


Patrick Thompson

Paramedic
United Kingdom


Kevin Ward, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Michigan
Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC)
USA


Col Thomas Woolley RAMC

Defence Professor of Anaesthetics and Critical Care
UK


Mark Yazer, MD

Professor of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh
Medical Director, RBC serology reference laboratory, Centralized Transfusion Service
Associate Medical Director, Centralized Transfusion Service
Adjunct Professor of Clinical Immunology, University of Southern Denmark