Lena M. Napolitano, MD, is Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Acute Care Surgery [Trauma, Burns, Surgical Critical Care, and Emergency Surgery]. She also serves as Associate Chair for Critical Care within the Department of Surgery, Director of Surgical Critical Care and Program Director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship (7 fellows annually). Dr. Napolitano received her medical degree in 1984, and completed her general surgery residency in 1990 at George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C. Dr. Napolitano completed a fellowship in Surgical Critical Care and Trauma at the University of North Carolina and is board-certified in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. Dr. Napolitano was previously Director of Surgical Critical Care and Co-Director of Trauma at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center from 1992-1995. She then joined the faculty at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, where her responsibilities included Director of Surgical Critical Care, Program Director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program, Associate Program Director of the General Surgery Residency Program, and Chief of the Division of Surgical Critical Care. In April of 2005, Dr. Napolitano joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Health Systems. Dr. Napolitano's clinical interests include general surgery, trauma and surgical critical care. Her research interests are in translational and outcomes research in trauma and surgical critical care, with a focus on multiple organ failure, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, anemia and blood transfusion. She serves on the editorial board and as reviewer for a number of surgical journals. Dr. Napolitano participates nationally in many organizations. She is a member of the Trauma, Burns and Critical Care Advisory Council of the American Board of Surgery, representing the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. She currently serves on the AAST Board of Managers and has served as Chancellor of the Board of Regents, American College of Critical Care Medicine, Chair of the Surgical Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and Chair of the Committee on Perioperative Care for the American College of Surgeons. She has an active interest in surgical education and is a member of the Surgical Education and Self-Assessment Program (SESAP) Committee and a member of the Steering Committee of the ACS Fundamentals of Surgery Resident Curriculum Committee. |
