It was clear to me there were going to be many challenges - some logistical, some resource-related. It is people, policies and programs working together to create a system of care to take care of the most severely injured. The trauma center is not an emergency department. What challenges did you face in the beginning? Q: The need for a Level 1 trauma center on the South Side of Chicago was clear. For me, it’s a passion and it’s spiritual. That's why I have persisted and that's why I have survived and thrived in this role. Partly because it had not been done for three decades, but also because of what I sensed from the community – that a center was a long-standing desire, and that there must have been significant resistance. When I interviewed and when I talked to people, I realized it was going to be a very heavy lift to develop one. In that context, I was really struck by the absence of an adult Level 1 trauma center on the South Side. Tell us about your mindset in those early days.īefore being asked to look at this position, I had actually never been on the University of Chicago campus. Q: You were appointed founding director five years ago to help build the center, its team, and its programming. Rogers Jr., MD, MPH, Professor of Surgery and founding director of UChicago Medicine’s trauma center, to discuss how the team is caring for the community, preventing violence and their hope of reducing trauma. At the five-year anniversary of the opening of University of Chicago Medicine’s adult Level 1 trauma center, we sat down with Selwyn O.
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