Speakers Bureau

In keeping with Cedars-Sinai's mission to expand the horizons of medical knowledge, we offer the Trauma Services Speakers Bureau, comprised of surgeons, physicians and nurses with expertise in all aspects of trauma care and trauma program management.

How to Arrange for a Speaker

To arrange for a guest speaker on any of the topics listed below, please contact:

Heidi A. Hotz, RN
Trauma Program Manager
Department of Surgery
Phone: (310) 423-8732

Trauma Program, Department of Surgery
Phone: (310) 423-8732

Yoram Kluger, MD, Chairman of the Surgery Department at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, spoke on the medical consequences of war and terrorism at a Surgery Grand Rounds lecture at Cedars-Sinai
Yoram Kluger, MD, Chairman of the Surgery Department at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, spoke on the medical consequences of war and terrorism at a Surgery Grand Rounds lecture at Cedars-Sinai. Dr. Kluger was the founding Director of Israel's first trauma hospital and head of the Trauma Project for the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps.

Speaker Topics

  • Trauma In The Elderly: Not Just Another Trauma Patient
  • Nutrition In The ICU: Calories Are Important To Help Wound Healing And Prevent Sepsis
  • Mass Disasters: What Is The 411 On Surge Capacity
  • Peer Mentoring For Trauma: From Novice To Expert And Back Again
  • Damage Control In Surgery
  • Just Pan Scan Everything
  • Systemic Hemostatic Agents - Factor VII
  • Sequela of Abdominal Compartment Syndrome: What to Do
  • Is There Any Use of Laparoscopy In Trauma
  • Preparing The Hospital For A Mass Casualty
  • Early Operations On Flail Chest
  • Laparoscopy In Trauma
  • Complications Of Feeding Jejunostomy: Not So Harmless
  • Injury Prevention: Why All Nurses Should Be Involved
  • Intraabdominal-Abscess: Current Methods Of Treatment
  • What's New In Thoracic Trauma
  • Abdominal Compartment Syndrome and The Aftermath
  • Abdominal Wall Reconstruction After Trauma: Pay Me Now Or Pay Me Later
  • The Emergency Nurse: Your Impact on The World of Trauma
  • Peer Mentoring: From Novice To Expert And Back Again
  • Me Tarzan, You Jane: Role Definition and Hierarchy
  • Structure In A Trauma Hospital
  • Initial Assessment and Management of the Trauma Patient
  • "Trauma" As A Career
  • Missed Injuries and the Tertiary Survey For Trauma
  • TV, Media, Public Speaking: Survival Tactics For Trauma Program Managers
  • Injury Prevention: Why All Nurses Should Be Involved
  • Injury Prevention and Home Safety
  • Families in the Resuscitation Room: The Reality
  • Entering the Trauma Zone
  • Critical Issues In Trauma Care: The Nursing Shortage and Nursing Staffing
  • Drug And Alcohol Interventions In Hospitalized Trauma Patients: The Reality
  • Trauma In the Rural Emergency Room
  • Trauma Systems on the Verge of a Cataclysmic Event
  • Challenges In Trauma Nursing In The Critical Care Patient
  • The Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Trauma Program: An Overview
  • Trauma Performance Improvement
  • The Role of the Trauma Coordinator In the United States
  • Pediatric Trauma
  • Preparing to Receive the Trauma Patient
  • Pathophysiology and Treatment of Hemorrhagic Shock
  • Stress and Critical Incident Stress Management
  • Facial Trauma