Associate Chief of Staff, Surgical Services, Director Trauma Services, Dr. Falcone completed his general surgery training at the University of Cincinnati and his pediatric surgical fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He subsequently went on to receive his Masters of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. He has been on faculty at Cincinnati Children’s since 2004 and currently is an Associate Professor of Surgery and the Director of Trauma Services. He has done extensive research in the area of injury care, trauma systems and quality and safety. He is committed to improving the care of the injured child.

Dr. P. David Adelson is the Director of Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, the Diane and Bruce Halle Endowed Chair for Pediatric Neurosciences in Phoenix, AZ and the Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery/ Children’s Neurosciences at Phoenix Children's Hospital. His research interests lie in pediatric neural injury, brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerve, in particular the acute clinical management of pediatric TBI as well as in the areas of neural recovery and plasticity of the developing brain following injury with active basic science laboratory as well as clinical research programs, including the NIH Funded Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Consortium through both Phase II and Phase III clinical trials on hypothermia following severe traumatic brain injury in children. 

Dr. Brown is the Associate Director of Trauma Services at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and is Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She is Director and Co-Founder of the Buckle Up for Life program, a community-based motor vehicle injury prevention program addressing disparities in the Hispanic and African-American communities which is funded through a grant from Toyota. Her research interests lie in trauma and injury prevention.

Dr. Couture is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics and the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Brenner Children’s Hospital of Wake Forest Baptist Health. His research interests include adult and pediatric brain and spinal cord injury in addition to other pediatric neurosurgical conditions.

Dr. Johnson is an attending staff physician within the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), and assistant professor of clinical pediatrics within the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Her clinical interests include pediatric asthma and trauma.

Dr. Jennifer Kaplan is pediatric intensivist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Critical Care Medicine. Her research interests focus on understanding the mechanisms involved in pediatric sepsis. Dr. Kaplan’s clinical interests include pediatric trauma and sepsis.

Dr. Kerrey is an Associate Professor, Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the Assistant Medical Director/Director of Research at the Center for Simulation and Research at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. His research interests are in emergency airway management, quality improvement, and simulation-based research for systems integration and non-technical skills.

Professor of Pediatrics and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Aaron W. Perlman Chair, Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Residency Program Director
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Dr. Piatt is a Professor of Neurological Surgery and Pediatrics at the Sidney Kimmel College of Medicine of Thomas Jefferson University and Head of the Division of Neurosurgery at the Nemours / A I duPont Hospital for Children, a Level 1 Trauma Center. His research interests lie in the epidemiology of trauma, hydrocephalus and other pediatric neurosurgical conditions.

Todd Ponsky is currently Professor of Surgery at the University of Cincinnati and a pediatric surgeon at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Akron Children’s Hospital. He is the Director of Clinical Growth and Transformation at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio from 1995-1999,Residency in General Surgery at The George Washington University in Washington, DC from 1999-2005, Pediatric Surgery Fellowship at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC from 2005-2007,and an Advanced Minimally Invasive Pediatric Surgery Fellowship at The Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children in Denver, CO from 2007-2008. Dr. Ponsky was the first to perform and report single port surgery in children and modernized the methods of the laparoscopic pediatric hernia repair. He has published over 125 manuscripts, edited 3 textbooks, and authored over 30 book chapters. He has directed over 50 national/international courses and has given over 200 visiting lectureships. He is the Associate Editor for The Journal of Pediatric Surgery, and serves on three editorial boards. He is the immediate past president of the International Pediatric Endosurgery Group (IPEG) and holds, or has held, leadership positions in the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA), the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and the International Society for Pediatric Innovation (iSPI). He has won numerous faculty teaching awards. He is involved in both outcomes and animal research with a focus on inguinal hernia physiology, surgical telementoring, endoscopic repair techniques for pure esophageal atresia, and innovations in education. He founded GlobalcastMD and Stay Current in Surgery, both of which serve to democratize and internationalize medical knowledge and modernize the way we teach and learn surgery.

Dr. Schwartz is an attending staff physician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) Division of Emergency Medicine. He is the Cincinnati Fire Department’s Pediatric Medical Director, the Medical Director of CCHMC Burnet Campus Emergency Department, CCHMC Medical Director of STATline, and Medical Director of Cincinnati Children’s Critical Care Transport Team.

Dr. Vavilala is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at the University of Washington, and the Director of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (HIPRC). She has been the Principal Investigator of a number of federally funded grants in the area of injury funded by the National Institutes of Health and other major organizations, pertaining to trauma care, trauma outcomes and acute resuscitation. Her research focuses on acute care trauma resuscitation of adults and children.