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Thomas A. Santora, MD

Vice-Chairperson, Department of Surgery

Professor, Surgery

Telephone:  215-707-3078

Email: thomas.santora@tuhs.temple.edu

Department of Surgery, Sections of General Surgery and Trauma/Critical Care

BS (Chemistry), Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 1980

 

MD, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, 1984

 

Internship, General Surgery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1985

 

Residency, General Surgery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1989

 

Fellowship, Surgical Critical Care, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1990

 

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• Control of surgical infections
• Abdominal wall herniae
• Bilary tract disease
• ARDS management
• Trauma care

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• American Board of Surgery, 1990; recertified 1998
• Advanced Trauma Life Support, Instructor, 1990; Surgical Critical Care 1991, recertification 2001

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• American Medical Association, 1985 to present
• Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, 1988 to present
• Founding President, Society of Carolina Surgeons, 1989 to present
• Society of Critical Care Medicine, 1990 to present
• American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 1990 to present
• Pennsylvania Medical Society, 1990 to present
• Drinker Society, 1990 to present
• Philadelphia Medical Society, 1990 to present
• Association for Academic Surgery, 1991 to present
• Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, 1993 to present
• Fellow, American College of Surgeons, 1993 to present
• Surgical Infection Society, 1994 to present
• Pennsylvania Committee on Trauma, 1996 to present
• American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, 1996 to present
• Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 1996 to present
• Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, 1999 to present

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• Mechanical ventilation
• Trauma systems development

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Peer-Reviewed Articles:

Blank-Reid C, Corcorcan K, Santora TA.  When the President visits:  A primer to presidential triage.  Disaster Management and Response, 2004 Mar.

Blank-Reid C, Santora TA.  Historic trauma cases:  Ben Hogan's survival.  Advance for Nurses. 2003 Nov;5(24):35-36.

Blank-Reid C, Santora TA. Developing and implementing a surgical response and physician triage team. Disaster Manag Response. 2003 Apr-Jun;1(2):41-5.

Sloan EP, Koenigsberg M, et al. for the DCLHb Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock Study Group.  Post hoc mortality analysis of the efficacy trail of diaspirin cross-linked hemoglobin in the treatment of severe traumatic hemorrhagic shock.  J of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care. 2002 May;52(5):887-895.

Terry S, Santora TA.  Small bowel tumors.  E-Medicine: Ob-Gyn, Emergency Medicine and Surgery.  Feb. 1, 2002.

Clarke JR, Hayward CZ, Santora TA, Wagner DK, Webber BL. Computer-generated trauma management plans: comparison with actual care.
World J Surg. 2002 May;26(5):536-8.

Santora TA, Rukstalis DB.  E-Medicine: Fournier's Gangrene, Jul. 2001.

Kaplan LJ, McPartland K, Santora TA, Trooskin SZ. Start with a subjective assessment of skin temperature to identify hypoperfusion in intensive care unit patients. J Trauma. 2001 Apr;50(4):620-7; discussion 627-8.

Clarke JR, Spejewski B, Gertner AS, Webber BL, Hayward CZ, Santora TA, Wagner DK, Baker CC, Champion HR, Fabian TC, Lewis FR Jr, Moore EE, Weigelt JA, Eastman AB, Blank-Reid C. An objective analysis of process errors in trauma resuscitations. Acad Emerg Med. 2000 Nov;7(11):1303-10.

Book Chapters:

Ginwalla RF, Mullarkey J, Santora TA.  Mechanical Ventilation Basics.   In: Competency-Based Handbook of Surgery.  Mann B (ed), Elsevier Publishing, Philadelphia, PA. August 2006.

Santora TA.  Shock: Principles in Management.  In: Competency-Based Handbook of Surgery.  Mann B (ed), Elsevier Publishing, Philadelphia, PA. August 2006.

Gupta D, Santora TA.  Introduction to Hemodynamic Monitoring.  In: Competency-Based Handbook of Surgery.  Mann B (ed), Elsevier Publishing, Philadelphia, PA. August 2006.

Blank-Reid C, Kaplan LJ, Santora TA.  Neuroscience Critical Care Management,  Elsevier Publishing, St. Louis, MO.  August 2005.

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