Expert Team
Under the leadership of Ali Salim, MD, Medical Director, the Trauma Program draws from the full range of disciplines and specialties available at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
The Trauma Program is guided by a team of experts:
- Ali Salim, MD, Medical Director (publications)
- Heidi Hotz, RN, Program Manager (publications)
- Rex Chung, MD (publications)
- Marko Bukur, MD (publications)
- Nicolas Melo, MD (publications)
- Eric Ley, MD (publications)
- Daniel Margulies, MD, FACS (publications)
- Matthew Bloom, MD
- Mario Trizzino, CTSR Trauma Registrar
A Team of Dynamic Support
The complexity of trauma requires surgical leadership. Trauma is a surgical disease and also requires a special team approach. The Trauma Program uses the knowledge and skill of a wide spectrum of specialists to provide complete care for both adult and pediatric patients.
- Anesthesiologists
- Cardiologists
- Cardiac and thoracic surgeons
- Emergency medicine physicians
- Eye surgeons
- Gastrointestinal surgeons and specialists
- Gynecological surgeons and obstetricians
- Hand surgeons
- Infectious disease specialists
- Internal medicine physicians
- Laboratory and blood bank technicians
- Mouth, face and jaw surgeons
- Nephrologists
- Neurosurgeons
- Orthopedic trauma surgeons
- Pathologists
- Pediatric surgeons, critical care physicians and nurses
- Plastic surgeons
- Psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers
- Pulmonologists
- Radiological technologists
- Radiologists
- Respiratory therapists
- Surgical critical care physicians and nurses
- Trauma and general surgeons
- Trauma nurses
- Urological surgeons
- Urologists
- Vascular surgeons
