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Baltimore’s Grand Prix Track a Block Away from the Nation’s First Trauma Center

September 4, 2011

As race car drivers hurtle along city streets at speeds of more than 150 miles per hour this weekend during Baltimore’s Grand Prix, they might find it reassuring to know that if they crash, they are only moments away from the nation’s first trauma center, the world-renowned University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. The R [...]

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UM Nurse Helping Haitians to Care for Themselves

November 18, 2010

University of Maryland Shock Trauma nurse Laura Cabahug was a member of UM’s first medical team to provide relief and assistance following the devastating earthquake in January. Cabahug, who specializes in operating room trauma and repair, talks about that experience as well as the work she and others are now doing to ensure sustainability of [...]

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Construction Update: Shock Trauma Critical Care Tower

November 3, 2010

By Marianne Rowan-Braun Director for the Campaign for the Shock Trauma Critical Care Tower Six months into the construction of our new Shock Trauma Critical Care Tower, this photo captures one of an endless stream of helicopters arriving with someone from Maryland in need of life-saving care. The Shock Trauma team is here 24 hours [...]

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Violence Intervention Program Gives Man Hope

August 31, 2010

In this 10-minute video, viewers are introduced to Baltimore City resident Dwight Bolden, a participant in the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center’s Violence Intervention Program (VIP). The program, which was developed by Dr. Carnell Cooper in 1998, focuses on ending the cycle of violence that doctors and nurses in the Shock Trauma Center witness [...]

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Trauma Surgeon Heals Patients and Their Violent Ways

June 21, 2010

R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center surgeon Dr. Carnell Cooper started the Violence Intervention Program (VIP) in 1998 after seeing victims of traumatic violent injury being treated, released, and readmitted months later due to another, often more serious, violent injury. Seeing this caused Dr. Cooper to ask a simple scientific question: “How can we reduce [...]

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Building for the Future

May 13, 2010

The University of Maryland Medical Center is starting construction of a $160 million, nine-floor trauma/critical care building that will significantly expand its renowned Shock Trauma Center. The 140,000-square-foot building at the corner of Penn and Lombard streets will house 10 state-of-the-art operating rooms and 64 new and replacement critical care beds. Take an animated tour [...]

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Haiti: Mission of Hope

March 30, 2010

WBFF-TV FOX 45 reporter Jennifer Gilbert and videographer Darren Durlach were embedded recently with the UM medical team in Haiti. They reported on UM’s ongoing relief efforts to help the Haitian people recover from the devastating earthquake that shook the country in January 2010. This cover story features the work the UM team is doing [...]

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Haiti Relief Event on March 2nd Features Live Video

March 1, 2010

By Bill Seiler Assistant Director of Media Relations Physicians, nurses and other health professionals from the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center and the UM Institute of Human Virology will share their experiences in caring for earthquake survivors in Haiti at a day-long Haiti relief event at the University of Maryland Medical Center on March [...]

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Two Stories From Haiti

February 26, 2010

By Chris Lindsley Blog Editor Wonder what the situation is like in Haiti? Two members of the first University of Maryland Medical Center team there to provide relief for earthquake survivors — surgical technologist Jake Smith and trauma anesthesiologist Cynthia Bucci, M.D., both with the UM Shock Trauma Center — share their experiences. Jake Smith: [...]

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Preparing for Haiti: Pre-Deployment Briefing Video

February 10, 2010

By Chris Lindsley Blog Editor On January 28 the first team of 22 doctors, nurses and other health professionals from the University of Maryland Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine left for a relief mission in Haiti. Prior to departing, the team received a detailed pre-deployment briefing from Dr. Andrew Pollak, [...]

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