AshleyBChristmasMDFACS
General Surgery • Charlotte, NCTrauma Surgery & Surgical Critical Care
Professor of Surgery, Medical Director and Chief of Trauma
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Office
1000 Blythe Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28203Phone+1 704-355-3176- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- A. Britton Christmas received his B.A. degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in 1996 and his M.D. degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 2000. He completed his internship, residency, and surgical critical care fellowship in the Department of Surgery at the University of Louisville from 2000-2006 where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He joined the faculty of The F. H. “Sammy” Ross, Jr. Trauma Center at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2006 where he currently serves as an attending surgeon for trauma, critical care, and acute care surgery, Professor of Surgery, Associate Medical Director and Vice Chief of Trauma, and Co-Medical Director or Pediatric Trauma. He also serves as Adjunct Associate Professor of Surgery for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has authored/co-authored, 64 peer reviewed publications, 8 book chapters, and 160 presented abstracts. Society memberships include the American College of Surgeons, the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), the Pediatric Trauma Society, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) and the Southern Surgical Association. He is a former recipient of the EAST Leadership Development Scholarship, the recipient of the inaugural EAST Foundation Brandeis Scholarship in Health Policy and Management, and the recipient of the 2016 ACS Young Fellows Leadership and Advocacy Summit Scholarship. He currently serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee as Treasurer for EAST, the Board of Directors for TCAA, and as Vice Chair for the North Carolina ACS Committee on Trauma. Current committee appointments include the TCAA Education Committee, the AAST Acute Care Surgery Committee, and the Southeastern Surgical Congress Fellow, Resident and Medical Student Committee.
Education & Training
University of Louisville School of MedicineResidency, Surgery, 2000 - 2006- University of Louisville School of MedicineFellowship, Surgical Critical Care, 2003 - 2004
- University of Louisville School of MedicineClass of 2000
Certifications & Licensure
NC State Medical License 2006 - 2024- American Board of Surgery Surgery
- American Board of Surgery Surgical Critical Care
- American College of Surgeons Committee on TraumaAdvanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Course Director
- American College of Surgeons Committee on TraumaAdvanced Trauma Operative Management (ATOM) Course Instructor
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Cox-Templeton Injury Prevention Paper Competition of the EAST Foundation Award Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, 2016
- Young Fellows Association Leadership and Advocacy Summit Scholarship American College of Surgeons, 2016
- Best Manuscript Award Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, 2012
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Clinical Trials
- PREVENTion of Clot in Orthopaedic Trauma Start of enrollment: 2017 Apr 24
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 2 citationsEmergencies do not shut down during a pandemic: COVID pandemic impact on Acute Care Surgery volume and mortality at a level I trauma center.Samuel W Ross, Jason C McCartt, Kyle W Cunningham, Caroline E Reinke, Kyle J Thompson, John M Green, Bradley W Thomas, David G Jacobs, Addison K May, A Britton Christm...> ;American Journal of Surgery. 2022 Dec 1
- 2 citationsEmergency General Surgery Regionalization: Retrospective Cohort Study of Emergency General Surgery Patients at a Tertiary Care Center.Sullivan A. Ayuso, Sharbel A. Elhage, Kyle W. Cunningham, A. Britton Christmas, Ronald F. Sing, Bradley W Thomas, Addison K. May, Caroline E. Reinke, Samuel W. Ross> ;The American Surgeon. 2021 Aug 16
- 4 citationsPrehospital End-Tidal CO2: A Superior Marker for Mortality Risk in the Acutely Injured Patient:Robert G Willis, Kyle W. Cunningham, Paola A Troia, Ashley S Gutierrez, Ashley Britton Christmas, Rita A. Brintzenhoff, Ronald F. Sing> ;The American Surgeon. 2021 May 28
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Other
- Management of hepatic trauma in adultsChristmas AB, Jacobs DG
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/management-of-hepatic-trauma-in-adults
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2012-12-29 - Surgical techniques for managing hepatic injuryChristmas AB, Jacobs DG
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/surgical-techniques-for-managing-hepatic-injury
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2012-06-19
Committees
- Board of Directors, TCAA 2018 - Present
- Committee Member, AAST Acute Care Surgery Committee 2017 - Present
- Treasurer, EAST Board of Directors Executive Committee 2016 - Present
- Vice Chair (Advocacy Pillar), North Carolina ACS State Committee on Trauma 2016 - Present
- Committee member, TCAA Education Committee 2015 - Present
- Committee Member, Southeastern Surgical Congress Resident, Medical Student, and Fellows Committee 2015 - Present
- Committee member, AAST Prevention Committee 2015 - 2017
- Chair, EAST Advanced Practitioner Section 2015 - 2016
- Chair, EAST Injury Control and Violence Prevention Committee 2012 - 2015
Professional Memberships
- Member
- Member
- Member
- Southern Surgical AssociationFellow
Hospital Affiliations
Atrium Health's Carolinas Medical CenterCharlotte, North Carolina
External Links
- LinkedInhttp://linkedin.com/in/a-britton-christmas-md-facs-88966579
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