Massive Transfusion Protocol—What to Give and When to Stop
January 22, 2025
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Massive Transfusion Protocol—What to Give and When to Stop
Presented By: Scott Thomas, MD FACS
Chief of Trauma Services, Beacon Health System
Dan Waxman, MD
South Bend Medical Foundation
Mark Walsh, MD
Emergency/Internal Medicine, South Bend
Dr. Thomas received his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine and completed his residency in general surgery at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan and The Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He also completed his trauma fellowship at The Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney.
Board certified in surgery, Dr. Thomas is Chief of Trauma Services for Beacon Health System and answers as Medical Director of Trauma Services at Memorial Hospital of South Bend.
He has been instrumental in strengthening the quality and expanding the capabilities of the area’s leading trauma program. He is a member of the American Trauma Society and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Thomas, who has served on numerous medical committees and councils, has conducted a variety of presentations and panel discussions regionally, statewide and internationally.
Dr. Dan Waxman is the Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of the Indiana Blood Center (IBC) in Indianapolis, Indiana and Clinical Professor of Pathology at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Dr. Waxman received his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and his medical degree at the University of Kansas. After completing a Pathology Residency and a Fellowship in Transfusion Medicine, Dr. Waxman held positions at the Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City, BloodCare in Dallas and was the Chief Executive Officer of the Southeastern Michigan Blood Services Region of the American Red Cross in Detroit.
Dr. Waxman is on the AABB Board of Directors and is a past president of the Kansas City Society of Pathologists, Heart of America Association of Blood Banks, Indiana State Association of Blood Banks and America’s Blood Centers.
Dr. Waxman is the 2012 recipient of the Victor H. Muller Achievement Award from the Indiana State Association of Blood Banks and the 2012 recipient of the Hemphill-Jordan Leadership Award from the AABB.
Dr. Walsh graduated from the University of Notre Dame where he received the Rink Academic Scholarship and an athletic scholarship for track and field. He graduated from the University of Bologna, Italy School of Medicine in 1976, attending medical school in the country of his mother’s birth. Dr. Walsh completed his residency in internal medicine in 1980 at Northwestern University in Chicago. Since that time, he has practiced emergency medicine and internal medicine and has been board certified in internal medicine since 1980 and emergency medicine since 1987.
