Dr. Fabian is a Harwell Wilson Alumni Professor & Chairman and currently heads the Department of Surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended college and medical school at Loyola University of Chicago. Following medical school he did his surgical residency training at Ohio State University. He then went to Emory University School of Medicine and completed a fellowship in trauma/critical care at Grady Memorial Hospital. After serving on the faculty at Emory, he moved on to the University of Tennessee in Memphis where he began an academic career in trauma. He helped organize and develop one of the largest volume trauma centers in the United States -- The Presley Memorial Trauma Center at Memphis. His academic interests have been in both clinical and laboratory research dealing with shock and organ injury management. He has served as vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons, as president of Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and currently serves on the Board of Managers and is a past president of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (2008). Dr. Fabian is the current chairman of the National Trauma Institute.