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UMMC Nurse, Son, Use Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Experience to Help Others

February 2, 2011
UMMC Nurse Debbie Yohn Pictured with Her Son

By Deborah Yohn Registered Nurse, UMMC’s Shock Trauma Center I will never forget the day I received the call. The person on the other end of the line said, “I am calling with an alert call. I need you to get your husband and let him know there is a possibility he will be going [...]

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Construction Update: Shock Trauma Critical Care Tower

November 3, 2010
Shock Trauma Phase IV Expansion

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
Dwight Bolden

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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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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