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Michael F. Rotondo, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Michael F. Rotondo, M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Surgery and CEO of the University of Rochester’s Medical Faculty Group, was recently voted president-elect of (AAST), the world’s leading scientific trauma society. Rotondo’s one-year term as president will begin in September 2017.

Founded in 1993, the AAST serves as the premier scholarly organization for surgeons dedicated to trauma and to caring for critically ill surgical patients. The organization promotes the discovery, dissemination, implementation and evaluation of knowledge related to acute care surgery (trauma, surgical critical care and emergency surgery) by fostering research, education and professional development in an environment of fellowship and collegiality.

Rotondo was named president-elect at AAST’s 75^th annual meeting in September. He had previously chaired its Publications and Communications Committee. Raul Coimbra, M.D., Ph.D., of the UC San Diego Medical Center, was elected president.

A trauma surgeon by practice, Rotondo is recognized for his pioneering research and education around “damage control surgery,” a revolutionary approach to treating penetrating abdominal injuries that fundamentally changed the operative approach to patients with major bleeding. It has become the standard of care worldwide and spread in concept to a wide array of severe injuries, and with remarkable outcomes: Today, nearly 90 percent of patients recover from the most serious bleeding wounds, compared to the historical 10 percent.

Since the U.S. Department of Defense adopted it as a core treatment method, “damage control” practices have helped the Army achieve some of its all-time highest battlefield survival rates in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.  In 2011, Rotondo was commissioned by the United States Military to analyze the Joint Theater Trauma System and spent a month in Afghanistan with a small team visiting various facilities and operating on wounded soldiers. The resulting report was heavily referenced in a paper published this past June by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, A National Trauma Care System: Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury.

Rotondo graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed his general surgical training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital before becoming the first Fellow in Traumatology and Surgical Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania. He accepted his first academic post at Penn, rising to direct its Level One Trauma Center and serve as Vice Chief of Traumatology and Surgical Critical Care. In 1999, he was recruited by The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, where he rose to the rank of Professor of Surgery, built a Level I Trauma Center for eastern North Carolina and became Chair of the Department of Surgery while maintaining his surgical practice.

In 2013, Rotondo was recruited back to his hometown, Rochester, N.Y., where as CEO he is leading the medical faculty group through an intensive restructuring in an effort to make the practice more integrated, efficient and patient-centric in support of the academic mission. At the same time, he holds two appointments at the University of Rochester’s School of Medicine—Vice Dean of Clinical Affairs and Professor of Surgery—and serves as Associate Vice President for Administration at Strong Memorial, the University’s 830-bed flagship teaching hospital.

Counted among The Best Doctors in America, Rotondo is the past President of the Eastern Association of the Surgery of Trauma, Chair of the Committee on Trauma for the American College of Surgeons and President of the Halsted Society.  He currently serves as Trauma Medical Director for the American College of Surgeons.  He has held numerous prestigious visiting professorships across the United States and around the globe. He is also a member of the Editorial Review Board for Journal of Trauma, reviewer for other leading surgical journals, and the author of more than 250 publications.