
Daniel Norman Holena MD MSCE
Trauma Surgery & Surgical Critical Care
Chief of Acute Care Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina
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96 Jonathan Lucas St., CSB 417DCharleston, SC 29425
Phone+1 843-792-1414
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Summary
- Daniel N. Holena, MD, MSCE is the Charles F. Crews Endowed Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Acute Care Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he also serves as Trauma Systems Lead for the MUSC Health System. He is a fellowship-trained trauma, surgical critical care, and emergency general surgeon with more than 15 years of clinical and academic practice across major academic medical centers, including the University of Pennsylvania and the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Dr. Holena earned his MD from Stony Brook University and completed general surgery residency at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, followed by fellowship in trauma and surgical critical care at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned an MSCE in epidemiology from Penn's Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
His research focuses on quality improvement in trauma and emergency general surgery, with particular interest in failure-to-rescue, trauma video review, and outcomes benchmarking across trauma systems. He has authored more than 190 peer-reviewed publications and has held NIH funding as principal investigator.
Education & Training
University of Pennsylvania Health SystemFellowship, Surgical Critical Care, 2007 - 2009
New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)Residency, Surgery, 2002 - 2007
Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center School of MedicineClass of 2002
Certifications & Licensure
SC State Medical License 2025 - 2027
WI State Medical License 2021 - 2027
PA State Medical License 2007 - 2022
NY State Medical License 2004 - 2007
American Board of Surgery Surgery
American Board of Surgery Surgical Critical Care
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons
Clinical Trials
- IV Iron for the Anemia of Traumatic Critical Illness Start of enrollment: 2011 Jun 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Closure of an urban level 1 trauma center and firearm assault mortality: The death of Hahnemann University Hospital.Daniel Counihan, James Byrne, Michael Poulson, Justin Hatchimonji, Allyson Hynes
Surgery. 2026-07-01 - Transfer Status: A Driver of Failure-to-Rescue in Emergency General Surgery.Blake R Miller, Sonia Slusarczyk, Amir Farah, Patrick Murphy B, Rachel S Morris
The American Surgeon. 2026-03-01 - Under the lens: utilizing trauma video review for performance improvement, quality improvement and resident and fellow education.Caitlin Anne Fitzgerald, Alexander C Schwed, Daniel Holena, Amelia W Maiga, Cristy Meyer
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open. 2026-01-01
Journal Articles
- Measuring Emergency Care Survival: The Implications of Risk‐Adjusting for Race and PovertyDaniel Holena, MD, Academic emergency medicine
- A Safe Haven for the Injured? Urban Trauma Care at the Intersection of Healthcare, Law Enforcement, and RaceDaniel Holena, MD, ScienceDirect
Press Mentions
Life-Threatening Collapsed Lung: Survival Better with Prehospital Needle InsertionAugust 17th, 2022
Telemedicine Facilitates Better Family Participation in Surgical ICU RoundsSeptember 8th, 2016
ICU Rounds Bring Patients, Families, Providers TogetherAugust 26th, 2016
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