The 2025 Erlanger Trauma Symposium will take place May 22-23, 2025, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
“Our symposium is a two-day event featuring both didactic sessions and a hands-on skills component,” said Meredith Rippy, trauma research coordinator at Erlanger. “This year, we will host trauma professionals from across the region to deliver trauma-focused lectures and participate in our hands-on skills lab.”
The keynote speaker for this year’s symposium is Philip Stahel, MD, chief medical officer of HCA Healthcare North Carolina Division and a nationally recognized expert in disaster preparedness and response.
The title of Dr. Stahel’s address is “Disaster Management in the Face of Hurricane Helene”.
Other lectures will include:
- Ocular trauma
- Traumatic brain injury
- Development of a state-wide trauma system
- Mass casualty incidents
- Air medical resuscitation
- Pre-hospital management of obstetrical trauma
- Pediatric concussions and traumatic brain injury
- Pre-hospital management of geriatric trauma
- Pre-hospital administration of fresh whole blood in the setting of trauma
- Traumatic burns: resuscitation and surgical management
The symposium will also include skills labs covering intubation and tissue ventilation, traumatic brain injury (external ventricular drains and continuous EEG), pelvic fractures and stabilization, surgical management of traumatic burn injuries, obstetrical trauma, massive transfusion and other topics.
To learn more and register for this event, visit 2025 Erlanger Trauma Symposium.
