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Advocacy Committee

 

Mission

The Advocacy Committee’s mission is to coalesce support for the access to trauma care nationwide through legislative and regulatory support and grass roots activation by stakeholders when appropriate.

 

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Projects
Meeting Dates
Leadership
Members

Projects

  • MISSION Zero Appropriations – Secure Full Funding of $11.5M
  • Improving Trauma Systems Emergency Care Act – Secure Appropriations
  • TCAA Trauma Advocacy Institute & Lobby Day

Meeting Dates

  • 3rd Monday of every month at 2:00 pm ET
  • Wednesday, April 30 (Onsite at Annual Conference)

Leadership

Mark Hayes
Co-Chair
Dell Children’s Medical Center, TX

Shelly Schlenker
Co-Chair
CommonSpirit Health, WA

David Tessmer
Past Chair
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital, TX

Members

  • Bruce Hartmann - University of Tennessee Medical Center, TN
  • Dinah Welsh - Texas EMS, Trauma & Acute Care Foundation, TX
  • Francesca Sullivan - New York Presbyterian/Queens, NY
  • Grace Dobbertin - Good Samaritan Medical Center, CO
  • Heidi Gartland - Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, OH
  • James Jarvie - Idaho Falls Community Hospital, ID
  • Mary Ann Contreras - JPS Health Network, TX
  • Regena Young - Erlanger Medical Center, TN
  • Charles Adams - Rhode Island Hospital, RI
  • Chelsea Sutton - Piedmont Medical Center, SC
  • Jessica Levy - Atrium Health’s Carolinas Medical Center, NC
  • Teresa Brunt - Intermountain Medical Center, UT
  • Yvonne LaRoche-Pardo - Novant Health New Hanover Regional, NC