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Saturday, June 27, 2020

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C-Stars - A Focus on Readiness and Trauma

Previous to his current position at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, Dr. Jay Johannigman served in the military as a Colonel in the United States Army Reserves and a surgeon. Dr. Jay Johannigman was integral is the establishment of the C-Stars, a military program that enables medical facilities in large cities to train military medical personnel to be prepared to deal with the complications that are a part of trauma care.

C-Stars focus is primarily on readiness and trauma. The program works by integrating Air Force providers within hospitals that treat a high volume of trauma. Because military medical personnel is a part of the fighting force, they have to become familiar with dealing with severely injured soldiers in a high-pressure environment. This relationship the military has developed with civilian hospitals will prepare military medical personnel when they are deployed.

According to an article written about the C-Stars program based in Baltimore, Maryland, the first few minutes are critical for a trauma patient-regardless of the injury. Moreover, preparing military personnel to work in trauma care centers is critical to the care of a soldier in the middle of a war zone might receive.

About Jay Johannigman

A surgeon with Matrix Providers and adjunct professor of surgery at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Dr. Jay Johannigman has been working as a trauma and critical care surgeon for more than 25 years. He began his career shortly after receiving his MD from Case Western Reserve University. Already commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant for the USAF Reserves, Dr. Jay Johannigman returned to active duty as a staff surgeon and medical director of the Surgical Critical Care Service at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center after finishing his postdoctoral training.

Upon completion of his active duty service duty obligation, Dr. Johannigman joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati and served in the Department of Surgery and the Division of Trauma.During the ensuing years he would continue an active presence in both military and civilian medicine. Dr. Johannigman was a founding leader in the establishment of the Cincinnati Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (Cincinnati CSTARS). Established in 2001 and continuing to this date, Cincinnati CSTARS was one of the first five Military-Civilian Strategic Partnerships in the United States. . Over the next two decades, he split his time between academic appointments, military roles, and professional positions at civilian hospitals. He would deploy to the combat theaters of Iraq and Afghanistan on seven occasions over the ensuing 18 years; translating the lessons learned at war to the civilian trauma centers of the United States and his home institution. Dr Johannigman has served in trauma leadership positions at the local, state and national level to include serving as State Chair for the Ohio Committee on Trauma as well as Region Chief for the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. In the military arena he has served as a consultant to the Office of the Surgeon of the Air Force as well as a founding member of the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care.

Beyond his academic and professional experience, Dr. Jay Johannigman has maintained an active presence in the professional community as both a member of numerous organizations and a medical researcher. He was involved in nearly 100 peer-reviewed research papers including work in the area of mechanical ventilation, enroute care, resuscitation and whole blood utilization. He continues to be active in both basic science and clinical research investigations.