The lecture will take place April 6, 2017, at 4:30 p.m. at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel in Mobile, Ala. It is held in conjunction with the 8th annual Greater Gulf Coast Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Symposium.
Dr. Wolf earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in Galveston, Texas. He then completed his residency training at the University of Missouri at Kansas City in Kansas City, Mo. Dr. Wolf completed a research fellowship at Shriners Hospital for Children in burn surgery in Galveston, Texas, and a fellowship in burn surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.
Dr. Wolf has served as director of the of the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center and professor in the department of surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas. In 2011, he was appointed vice-chair for research and the burn section chief at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.
The lecture is presented annually in memory of William A. L. Mitchell, who passed away in 2005 from severe traumatic injuries sustained in a car crash. In appreciation for the care he received at the USA Trauma Center, his family established the endowed lecture series to memorialize their son and brother and to improve trauma patient care in our region through education. He was a senior at UMS-Wright Preparatory School at the time of his death.
The USA Trauma Center is this region�s only Level I Trauma Center, serving as a community resource for citizens throughout the central Gulf Coast region. The center provides the highest level of care for critically ill and injured patients.
For more information about the lecture, contact Rebecca Scarbrough at (251) 471-7971.
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