Translational Center for Resuscitative Trauma Care

This Memorial Day, and every day, our Center strives to honor the fallen through conducting prehospital research for military applications and providing medic training through our austere medicine program. We wish you all a meaningful day.

Our Center wholeheartedly believes in this year’s EMS week mission towards improving outcomes together. Working together with researchers, medical, and EMS providers is critical to conducting research in prehospital care with the potential to save lives.

This National Critical Care Awareness and Recognition Month (NCCARM), we would like to highlight the Minnesota Critical Care Collaborative (MC3), which allows for interdisciplinary collaboration with ICUs throughout the state. https://mc3.umn.edu/

We would like to welcome Dr. Gregory Berumen
Sánchez to TCRTC. Gregory is a scientist and chemical engineer with expertise in extracellular vesicles, radiation biology, and intercellular communication in disease. Raised in Texas, he earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from before completing his Ph.D. at . His doctoral research focused on how radiation therapy influences cell-to-cell
communication in breast cancer, with an emphasis on extracellular vesicle-mediated signaling. During his doctoral studies, he published two first-author papers and a highly cited review on extracellular vesicles in tissue injury and disease.

Learn more about one of our Center members, Sarah Swisher, PhD, in a candid conversation that details her interest in flexible electronics and her goal to combine engineering and medicine to improve trauma care outcomes. https://med.umn.edu/traumacare/news/engineering-hope-lifesaving-work-sarah-swisher

We are excited to welcome Angela Bruzina, PhD, RD, to TCRTC. Angela is a registered dietitian and PhD-trained researcher focused on metabolic adaptations to traumatic orthopedic injury. She completed her doctorate in Kinesiology under Center member Sarah Greising, PhD, at , where she developed experience in small and large animal models of musculoskeletal trauma. Her work centers on whole-body metabolic and local tissue responses following injury, with a particular interest in how biological s*x influences these responses.

Learn more about one of our Center members, Elissa Butler, MD, MPH, in a candid conversation that details her interest in pediatric trauma surgery and how the University of Minnesota Medical School helped shape her experience as a doctor. https://med.umn.edu/traumacare/news/beyond-small-adults-elissa-butlers-specialized-role

Learn more about one of our Center members, Patricia Jewett, PhD, in a candid conversation detailing her introduction to population health, community-engaged research, and a newer focus on rural Minnesota. https://med.umn.edu/traumacare/news/large-scale-solutions-small-scale-communities-conversation-patricia-jewett

Our Center’s interim director, Todd Constantini, assisted in an article assessing the effectiveness of an EHR clinical decision support tool on VTE chemoprophylaxis administration (PMID: 41253072).

The best research involves collaboration with partners. The Minnesota Nano Center works with our Center members to advance interdisciplinary medical research through nanotechnology.