PHILADELPHIA – Over 200 trauma professionals will gather to be recognized for their lifesaving and critical care efforts and celebrate the strides being made in patient care and injury prevention during Penn Medicine’s annual Trauma Reflections Ceremony on Thursday, May 6, 2010. The program will also celebrate “great saves,” with more than a dozen former Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania trauma patients and their families reuniting with the doctors and nurses who ensured their survival when they were critically injured.
The event will be held to mark National Trauma Awareness Month, a time to honor professionals who administer lifesaving care after car crashes, stabbings, shootings, falls and other injuries, and recognize the incredible stories of “unexpected trauma survivors.” Members of Penn Medicine’s Team Haiti, a group of nine medical professionals who traveled to Haiti to provide life- and limb-saving surgery for earthquake victims, will also be honored during the event.
WHERE: |
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Dunlop Auditorium (located in Stemmler Hall)
(Use hospital’s main entrance and follow event signage)
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
WHEN: |
Thursday, May 6, 2010
PHOTO OP & EVENT HIGHLIGHTS (full agenda available upon request)
11:30 AM |
Recognizing Team Haiti |
12:00 PM |
Former Trauma Patients & Families Honored |
12:20 PM |
2010 Trauma Nurse Excellence Award Presentation |
12:45 PM |
Reception (all participants available for interview) |
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WHO: |
- Over 12 regional “unexpected survivors” who received life-saving treatment from Penn’s trauma surgeons and nurses
- Penn Medicine trauma surgeons
- Team Haiti – Members of “Penn Medicine Team One,” the medical professionals from Penn who traveled to provide medical relief in Haiti following this year’s massive earthquake
- Meghan Feeney – 2010 Trauma Nurse Excellence Award Recipient
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