About The Authors

- COL (Ret) Cancio, MC, USA, is the senior burn surgeon at the US Army Burn Center. He directs the Multi-Organ Support Task area. He deployed as 504 Parachute Infantry Regiment Surgeon, 82d Airborne Division, Operation Just Cause and Desert Storm; with SOCCENT and 86th Combat Support Hospital during Operation Iraqi Freedom; and with a Forward Surgical Team during Operation Enduring Freedom.
- MAJ Powell, MC, USA, is an intensive care physician currently serving as the 4th Battalion 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) Surgeon and a staff intensivist at Womack Army Medical Center.
- MSgt Adams, USAF, is an IDMT-P, FP-C, ATP, and Combat Aviation Advisor with the Air Force Special Operations Air Warfare Center (AFSOAWC)/Irregular Warfare Directorate, where he directs/coordinates Aviation Foreign Internal Defense/Global Health Engagement missions in Special Operations Command Africa (SOCAF). He has served multiple deployments to Iraq/Afghanistan and Africa supporting Base Support Operations, casualty evacuations (CASEVAC) and the CAA TCCC/CASEVAC missions. He also works part-time as a civilian critical care flight paramedic.
- LT Bull, MC, USN, formerly the Battalion Surgeon for 3d Marine Raider Battalion, Marine Special Operations Command, is a family medicine resident at Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune. He is also a Navy Undersea Medical Officer.
- Maj Keller, MC, USAF, is an emergency medicine physician serving as the group surgeon for the 720th Special Tactics Group (AFSOC). He previously served as a CSAR flight surgeon with multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan supporting rescue forces. Maj Keller is also an experienced tactical EMS provider having provided support to multiple law enforcement agencies to include the Dayton Police Department SWAT and Vice Squad, as well as the FBI.
- LTC Gurney, MC USA, is a general, trauma, and burn surgeon and currently works as the Chief of Trauma Systems Development, Joint Trauma System, and the Deputy Director of the Burn Center in San Antonio, Texas. She has multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan as part of Combat Support Hospitals and Forward Surgical Teams.
- LTC Pamplin, MC, USA, is a board-certified intensivist and is currently the Director of Virtual Critical Care at Madigan Army Medical Center, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. Previously, he was the Director of the US Army Burn Intensive Care Unit and Chief of Clinical Trials in Burns and Trauma at the US Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, Texas, and has served as the Simulation and Training Director for the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Program, San Antonio Military Medical Center, and the Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Brooke Army Medical Center.
- Col Shackelford, MC, USAF, is a trauma surgeon, currently serving as the Chief of Performance Improvement, Joint Trauma System, San Antonio, Texas. She is a member of the Committee on TCCC and has previously deployed as the director of the Joint Theater Trauma System.
- COL Keenan, MC, USA, is a board-certified emergency medicine physician, and is currently serving as Command Surgeon, Special Operations Command, Europe. He has previously served as Battalion Surgeon in both 1st and 3rd SFG(A), and as Group Surgeon, 10th SFG(A). He is the coordinator for the SOMA Prolonged Field Care Working Group.