Dr. Jurkovich is professor of surgery at the University of Washington and chief of trauma at Harborview Medical Center. Dr. Jurkovich received an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University and his MD degree from the University of Minnesota. His surgery residency was at the University of Colorado, with a trauma research fellowship at Duke University. Dr. Jurkovich has looked extensively at some of the major problems in trauma, including new methods of measuring outcome in trauma patients, the role of hypothermia in trauma, alcohol and injury, the immune-inflammatory response to injury, and nutritional support in the critically injured. Dr. Jurkovich is an associate editor of the Journal of Trauma and the textbook ACS Surgery: Principles and Practices. He has held leadership positions in the Association of Academic Surgeons, the Society of University Surgeons, and Western Surgical Association, and has served as president of Western Trauma Association and the Washington State Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. He completed his tenure as vice-chairman and chief of regions of the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons (ACS/COT). He has chaired the AAST Committee on the Acute Care Surgeon, to define the future training paradigm for trauma surgeons, and just completed a term as president of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma.