From the classroom to the emergency room, O-R and beyond.

You're joining trauma ICU rounds with your host, Dr. Dennis Kim.

I think that diversity and equality is super important in everything in the world.

I think that not only diversity of gender or race,

but diversity of thought, right? Like, it's again, if you think, if you think always in a box

and you just go, you know, and you never question yourself, then you can be very sure, but very

wrong about things in life. So I think it serves ourselves better as professionals and it serves

our patients better to have inclusion and diversity and equity. That's Dr. Paula Ferrada, who

joins us on rounds this week. Dr. Ferrada is a professor of surgery at Virginia Commonwealth

University or VCU, where she serves as the medical director

of the trauma surgical ICU and program director of the surgical critical care fellowship.

Dr. Farada is extensively involved in organizational and committee work both nationally and

internationally.

In fact, you probably won't find a major surgical society in which she is not actively involved in some leadership role. In fact, you probably won't find a major surgical society in which she is not actively

involved in some leadership role.

In addition to being a busy clinician, researcher, and educator, Paul's professional

passions include ultrasonography, global surgery, as well as advocating for and supporting

initiatives to enhance diversity, inclusion, and equality

through efforts such as East for All.

I recently had an opportunity to sit down with Dr. Farad and discuss several clinically

clinically and professionally relevant topics in trauma and critical care, from a circulation-first

approach to patients presenting in hemorrhagic shock

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