E171 - Selwyn Rogers on Violence Prevention & Creating a Trauma Centre in Chicago

Selwyn O. Rogers Jr., MD, MPH, FACS, is a widely respected surgeon and public health expert. As founding director of the University of Chicago Medicine Trauma Center, Dr. Rogers is building an interdisciplinary team of specialists to treat patients who suffer injury from life-threatening events, such as car crashes, serious falls and gun violence. His team works with leaders in the city's trauma network to expand trauma care on the South Side.Dr. Rogers has served in leadership capacities at health centers across the country, including most recently as vice president and chief medical officer for the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Dr. Rogers has also served as the chair of surgery at Temple University School of Medicine and as the division chief of trauma, burns and surgical critical care at Harvard Medical School. While at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), he helped launch the Center for Surgery and Public Health to understand the nature, quality and utilization of surgical care nationally and internationally.Additionally, as executive vice president for community health engagement, Dr. Rogers works with faculty across the University of Chicago as well as members of the community to develop a multidisciplinary approach to trauma care and health disparities. His work will help enhance the understanding of social factors that affect victims of violence and underserved populations, in addition to identifying approaches necessary to achieve better outcomes for trauma victims.Dr. Rogers' clinical and research interests focus on understanding the healthcare needs of underserved populations. He has published numerous articles relating to health disparities and the impact of race and ethnicity on surgical outcomes.Twitter: https://x.com/selwyn_rogers Links:Ann Surg. 2024 Jul 1;280(1):29-31. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000006258. Epub 2024 Mar 5.When Equality Is Not Equity: The Ethics of Access to Trauma Care: A Surgical Perspective. Bethany L Strong 1, Franklin Cosey-Gay 2, Kenneth L Wilson 2, Selwyn O Rogers Jr 2Scarlet S, Rogers SO Jr. What Is the Institutional Duty of Trauma Systems to Respond to Gun Violence? AMA J Ethics. 2018 May 1;20(5):483-491. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.5.msoc2-1805. PMID: 29763395.Chang DC, Oseni TO, Strong BL, Molina G, Ortega G, Chen H, Rogers SO Jr. The Other Global Pandemic: Scientific Racism and the Normality Bias. Ann Surg. 2021 Dec 1;274(6):e646-e648. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000005168. PMID: 34387208.