This series of audio interviews addresses important events, discoveries and people in trauma and emergency surgery. These stories are our history. Always surprising and often humorous, they come from the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Date recorded 11/17/2017Dr. Lenworth Jacobs, one of the founding members of EAST and first program chair, shares the story of EAST, the Hartford Consensus, and development of the ATOM course.
Recorded 10/23/2019Dr. John Holcomb shares the story of his time deployed with JSOC in Magadishu, Somalia, in 1993, and his deployment in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2003, and his experience with transfusions and trauma teams.
Dr. Mattox tells the story of the longest running 'show' on the Vegas Strip-The Mattox Meeting.
EAST Founding Member, Dr. Kimball Maull, tells the story of the original EAST Tie (yep, there was one) and when ties abruptly disappeared from EAST meeting attire.
Dr. Brent Eastman tells the stories of early trauma system development, his experience as President of the American College of Surgeons and his Scudder Oration.
Dr. Kenneth Mattox tells a little about himself and the story of the Mattox Maneuver.
An introduction to EAST Storycasts and interview with Dr. Kimball Maull on the founding of EAST.
Founding Member Dr. Kimball Maull tells the story of EAST's founding, the early meetings and what it meant to be an EAST kid.