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TRAUMA MEDICAL DIRECTOR

Vishal Bansal, MD is the current Director of Trauma Surgery at Scripps Healthcare and Mercy Hospital since 2015.  Previously, Dr. Bansal was an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University California San Diego.  Dr. Bansal is a clinically active trauma and general surgeon as well as a funded surgical-scientist focusing on the physiologic response to brain injury, injury causation and surgical outcomes.  He has been a principle investigator for three clinical trials in traumatic brain injury.  He has over 100 peer reviewed publications, book chapters and invited reviews, sits on three national trauma committees, is a referee for over 25 national and international scientific journals, and has been awarded the John H. Davis Scholarship from the American Association of Surgery for Trauma, the American Surgical Association Foundation Research Award, and awards from the Japanese Surgical Society and Neurotrauma Society. He is the inventor of ghrelin therapy in mild traumatic brain injury.

Dr. Bansal received his undergraduate degree in music from Kalamazoo College and his medical degree from Wayne State University where he graduated Alpha Omega Alpha with high honors.  He completed his general surgery internship and residency at The University of Pittsburgh and his fellowship in Surgical Critical Care at University of California San Diego.

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Kimberly Peck, MD is one of six full time trauma surgeons at Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego where she currently serves as the Medical Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit. She has a hospital-based clinical practice consisting primarily of trauma, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care. She is also an educator for interns and residents from Naval Medical Center San Diego and Kaiser. Locally she is a member of the Critical Care Committee and the Disaster Management Committee at Scripps Mercy San Diego. Nationally she is a member of multiple trauma societies and is an active member of Western Trauma Association.

Dr. Peck received her Bachelor of Science degree from Nebraska Wesleyan University and Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Nebraska, Omaha. She is board certified in both General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. She completed general surgery residency at the University of Arizona in Tucson which was followed by a fellowship in Surgical Critical Care at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Maryland. She spent two years as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Arizona before joining the Scripps Mercy Trauma Team in 2007.

Dr. Krosner joined Scripps Mercy Trauma Team in 1998. Dr. Krosner received his Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago. His residency was completed at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI. He also trained at the Nuffield Department of Surgery at the University of Oxford. Dr. Krosner is Board Certified in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, and is a Certified Nutrition Support Physician.

Dr. Simpson graduated with honors from UCSD in 2006 with a B.S. in general biology.  She completed her M.D. at UCSD in 2010 and her general surgical training at University of Washington Seattle.  Dr. Simpson returned to UCSD for her surgical critical care fellowship and was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Surgery  where she attended on trauma, emergency and burn surgery.  She was recruited to Sharp Memorial where she continued as a trauma and acute care surgeon and finally joined the Scripps Mercy Trauma Team in 2022.  Dr. Simpson has special expertise in emergency and trauma surgery, critical care management, tissue reconstruction and skin grafting.

Dr. Yang hails from the San Francisco bay area. He is the current Chief of Vascular Surgery and past Chief of Surgery at Mercy hospital. He also co-chairs the professional practice review committee. His undergraduate studies were completed at UC Berkeley in 1982, followed by a Master’s degree in Public Health in 1986. He attended medical school at UC San Diego and continued on with a residency in general surgery and fellowship in surgical critical care. Dr. Yang joined the Mercy trauma service in 1997, then took a year off to complete a vascular surgery fellowship at the Scripps Clinic. His practice consists of trauma and emergency vascular surgery. Dr. Yang finds working with residents and students the most fulfilling aspect of his profession after direct patient care, and has felt honored to receive numerous teaching awards.

Dr. Steven Shackford is past Chairman of the Department of Surgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, a post that he held for 18 years, and the former chief of trauma at The University of California San Diego. He has authored or co-authored 352 scientific papers, 29 book chapters and 3 monographs, mostly relating to secondary brain injury and the effect of hemorrhagic shock on the injured brain. He was funded by the NIH from 1988 through 1995. He is on the editorial board of several surgical journals and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Trauma. In addition to his interest in trauma he is an active vascular surgeon. Working with a number of other surgeons, Dr. Shackford helped to develop the ultrasound educational program for the American College of Surgeons. He was the first Chair of the National Ultrasound Faculty of the American College of Surgeons. He is a past President of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the Western Trauma Association.  Dr. Shackford served as the Director of GME for the trauma services and is one of the five attending trauma surgeons and one of the three vascular surgeons at Scripps Mercy Hospital. He has been married to Ellen Dee Shackford for 40 years and has four children and 3 grandchildren.