Guidelines Committee
The Guideline Committee is responsible for all aspects related to EAST’s role as the premier provider of evidence based guidelines in all fields of clinical acute care surgery (trauma, critical care, emergency general surgery) as well as injury prevention. This committee supervises the creation of new guidelines on topics using the skills and the expertise of members of other sections (i.e. Injury Prevention, Acute Care Surgery) as well as the general EAST membership. It ensures all guidelines are up to date by revising already published guidelines.
EAST guidelines are developed using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology.
Membership on the Guidelines Committee is not required to be an individual guidelines leader, first author, co-author, or team member. There is a separate call for volunteers to assist on specific individual guidelines.
Committee members are appointed by the President with approval by the Board of Directors. Committee member terms are three years. All terms begin in January and conclude in January in the year specified in "term ends".
Guidelines Task Forces
In addition to the core committee, task forces have been established to assist in the development of specific guidelines. Each task force is chaired by a member of the Guidelines Committee.
Content Task Forces
Emergency General Surgery Guidelines Task Force
Injury Prevention Guidelines Task Force
Surgical Critical Care Guidelines Task Force
Trauma Guidelines Task Force
Members
Lisa M. Kodadek, MD, FACS, Chair- Yale New Haven Health/Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Jennifer J. Freeman, MD, MPH, FACS, Committee Vice Chair
- TCU Burnett School of Medicine in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
John Agapian, MD, FACS, FCCM, Committee Member- University of California, Riverside in Los Angeles, CA
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Laura R. Brown, MD, PhD, Committee Member- in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Edward Chao, MD, FACS, Committee Member- Jacobi Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Kennith Conley Coleman, DO, Committee Member- West Virginia University - WVU Medicine in Morgantown, WV
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Sabrina Goddard, MD, Committee Member- in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Diana Jewett, BSN, Committee Member
- HCA in Richmond, VA
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Vishnu R. Mani, MD, Committee Member
- in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Helen A. Markowski, MD, Committee Member
- Honor Health Scottsdale Osborn in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Joshua A. Marks, MD, Committee Member- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Kate Savoie, MD, MS, Committee Member
- Yale School of Medicine in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Kyle M. Schmitt, MD, Committee Member
- USF/HCA Aventura Medical Center in Hollywood , FL
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Asha Shah, MD, Committee Member
- St.Joes/Trinity Health/IHA in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Jyoti Sharma, MD, MPH, FACS, Committee Member
- Hospital of Central Connecticut in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Anaar Siletz, MD, PhD, Committee Member
- in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Linda Imen Yala, MD, Committee Member
- Riverside University Health System in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027