Dr. Louis J Magnotti is a clinical professor of the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns, and Acute Care Surgery at the University of Arizona. He is a member of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Surgical Infection Society, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the Harwell Wilson Surgical Society, and the Southern Surgical Association. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Before joining the University of Arizona, he was a Professor of Surgery and former program director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He completed his medical degree and general surgery residency at the former University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Following that, he pursued a fellowship in surgical critical care at the Presley Regional Trauma Center in
Memphis, Tennessee. Throughout his training and career, Dr. Magnotti received the 2018 Arthur M. Shipley Award of the Southern Surgical Association, the Golden Apple Teaching Award at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and the Resident Education and Training Award at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Dr. Bellal Joseph received his M.D. from Saba University School of Medicine in 2003. He is the Martin Gluck Endowed Professor of Surgery, Professor of Neurosurgery, Chief of the Division of General Surgery, Chief of the Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Burns, and Emergency Surgery, and the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Arizona. Dr. Joseph is a respected member of various national associations, past President of Arizona ACS and Arizona Trauma Association, and Vice Chair of the Committee on Trauma for the State of Arizona. He is a founding member of the Society of Acute Care Surgery Chiefs. Dr. Joseph is also a member of the National Trauma Research Action Plan (NTRAP) steering committee. His areas of expertise encompass traumatic brain injury, transfusions and factor replacement in trauma patients, frailty, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
