National Trauma Institute

Dr. Angela Gardner, MD, FACEP, is Assistant Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. She has served in numerous leadership capacities with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) on a national level and in the Texas chapter. She served on the ACEP Board of Directors for seven years prior to her election as president for 2009-2010. Dr. Gardner served in all chapter offices for Texas ACEP, including as president of the chapter in 2003.

Dr. Gardner earned her medical degree at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas and completed her residency in emergency medicine at the Texas Tech Regional Academic Health Center in El Paso.

"The clinical research supported by the National Trauma Institute will ultimately save thousands of military and civilian casualties by producing the "evidence" necessary for the provision of evidence-based medicine."

Timothy C. Fabian, MD, FACS,
Head of the Department of Surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee and Chairman, National Trauma Institute