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Lena Napolitano, MD, FACS, FCCP, FCCM
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Lena Napolitano, MD, FACS, FCCP, FCCM, is Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, Division Chief of Acute Care Surgery (Trauma, Burns, Critical Care, and Emergency Surgery), Chief of Surgical Critical Care, and Associate Chair for the Department of Surgery.
Dr Napolitano is certified by the American Board of Surgery in general surgery as well as surgical critical care.
She is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Critical Care Medicine, and the American College of Chest Physicians.
Dr Napolitano is a member of and holds leadership positions in numerous professional organizations in surgery, trauma, and surgical critical care.
Dr Napolitano is a member of the Trauma, Burns, Critical Care Advisory Council of the American Board of Surgery, representing the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST).
She currently serves on the AAST Board of Managers and Chairs their Critical Care Committee.
She also sits on their Committees on Acute Care Surgery, Membership, and Program.
She has served as Chancellor of the Board of Regents of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.
She is past-Chair of the Surgical Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), and was SCCM Congress Co-Chair in 2006.
She served as Chair of the Committee on Perioperative Care for the American College of Surgeons (ACS) from 2003 to 2005 and is still an active member.
She is past-Chair of the Multi-Institutional Trials Committee and a member of the Board of Directors for the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management.
In addition, Dr Napolitano is President-Elect and past Secretary of the Surgical Infection Society.
She is also a member of the Society of University Surgeons, the Association of Women Surgeons, and the American Surgical Association, among others.
She participates nationally in many organizations, and is a member of the Surgical Education and Self-Assessment Program (SESAP) Committee of the ACS and a member of the Steering Committee of the ACS Fundamentals of Surgery Resident Curriculum Committee.
Dr Napolitano is a member of the national Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) Technical Expert Panels for Respiratory and Infection, with the goal of reducing surgical complications in the United States by 25% by 2010.
She also serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Council on Surgical and Perioperative Safety (www.cspsteam.org).
Dr Napolitano has a research effort in trauma and surgical critical care, and is Principal Investigator on several research grants focused on translational research.
She is Associate Editor of the journal Surgical Infections and is a member of the Editorial Boards.
She is also a reviewer for numerous academic journals, including Surgery, Annals of Surgery, Critical Care Medicine, The Journal of Trauma, Chest, the Journal of Vascular Surgery, and The American Journal of Medicine.
Dr Napolitano received the 2002 Association of Women Surgeons Distinguished Member Award, awarded to a member that exemplifies the ideals and mission of the association.
Additional honors include Surgical Critical Care Educator of the Year Awards in 1998, 1999, and 2000, and Surgery Teacher of the Year Awards in 1999 and 2001 from the University of Maryland.
She received the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Teacher of the Year Award in 2007 from the University of Michigan.
She has been a mentor to several research fellows at the surgical resident and fellow level.
Her research group has received numerous awards, including the annual Resident Paper Competition of the ACS Committee on Trauma, SCCM Best Paper award, and several others.
Dr Napolitano has authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications, over 50 book chapters, has been an invited lecturer at many national and international symposia, and has been a visiting professor at many institutions over the course of her career.
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