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Eric A. Toschlog, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Trauma & Surgical Critical Care
Pitt County Memorial Hospital
2100 Stantonsburg Road
Greenville, NC 27835
etoschlo@pcmh.com
252-847-4299


CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT:

Assistant Professor
Trauma & Surgical Critical Care
Department of Surgery
East Carolina University

EDUCATION:

1985 – 1989     Bachelor of Science – Denison University
                       Granville, OH
                       Wildlife Biology

1989 - 1993      Doctor of Medicine - University of Cincinnati College
                       of Medicine
                       Cincinnati, OH

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:


1993 – 1997 ST. LUKE’S-ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER
New York, New York
Resident in General Surgery

1997 – 1998 ST. LUKE’S-ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER
New York, New York
Chief Resident in General Surgery

1998 – 1999 VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
Nashville, Tennessee
Surgical Critical Care/Trauma Fellow

BOARD CERTIFICATION:

Diplomate, American Board of Surgery
General Surgery
December 1999
Recertification: December 2010

Certificate of Added Qualifications: Surgical Critical Care
October 20, 2000
Recertification: July 1, 2011

CERTIFICATIONS:


DEA Registration
Certification #BT6285046
Expires: 11-30-2004

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
Inception: March 2001
March 2005

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS): Instructor
Inception: November 1998
Current

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS): Course Director
Initial Certification: November 1998
Current

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS): Instructor
Initial Certification: February 2001
Current

Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals (PEPP): Course Director
Initial Certification: February 2002

Focused Critical Care Support Course (FCCS): Director
Initial Certification: October 2003


MEDICAL LICENSURE:

North Carolina: 2000-00641

Tennessee: MD0000030978

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:

1999 – 2000 Instructor in Surgery
Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN

2000 - Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Trauma & Surgical Critical Care
East Carolina University, School of Medicine

2003 - Present Associate Director, Surgical Critical Care
Department of Surgery
Division of Trauma & Surgical Critical Care
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
Greenville, NC


MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

1998 – Present    American Medical Association
                         Society of Critical Care Medicine
                         Wilderness Medical Society
2001 – Present    American College of Surgeons, North Carolina
                         Chapter
                         Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
                         North Carolina Medical Society
                         Pitt County Medical Society
2001 – 2003       Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, 
                         Program Committee
2002 – Present    American College of Surgeons: Fellow
                         American Trauma Society
                         North Carolina Committee on Trauma
2003 – Present    Southeastern Surgical Congress
                         Virginia/Carolina Chapter Society of Critical Care 
                         Medicine: Board Member
2004 – Present   Shock Society

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

2002                  Consultant; Ortho Biotech – Anemia and Critical
                          Illness, Atlanta, GA
2003                  Consultant; Eli Lilly – Clinical Update on Sepsis,
                         Charlotte, NC
2003 – Present    Editorial Board: Critical Care Medicine


GRANTS:


2004                  Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Prevention
                         Co-Principal Investigator
                         American Association of Critical Care Nurses
                         $1,000

COMMITTEES/ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:

PITT COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL:

2000 – 2001 OR Subgroup Committee

2000 – Present    Surgical Intensive Care Unit Executive Committee
                         Surgical Administrative Committee
                         Trauma Patient Documentation System Committee
                         Trauma Center Development Team Committee
                         Trauma Performance Improvement Committee
                         Trauma Research Committee

2001 – 2002 Radiology Subgroup Committee

2001 – 2003 Population Based Health Subcommittee

2001 – Present     Antibiotic Utilization & Stewardship Committee
                          Bedside Surgery Users Group
                          Nutrition Care Committee
                          Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
                          Chairman, Surigical Intensive Care Unit Executive
                          Committee
                          Residency Curriculum Committee

2002 – Present     Critical Care Matrix Committee
                           Leapfrog Subcommittee
                          Monitor Upgrade Subcommittee

2003 – Present     Multidisciplinary Trauma PI Peer Review Committee
                          Trauma Center Executive Committee
                          CPOE Physicians Work Group Committee
                          Chairman, Critical Care Matrix Committee

2004 – Present Infection Control Committee

REGIONAL:

2001 – 2003        Eastern Regional Advisory Committee on Trauma

2002 – 2003         Chairman, Eastern Regional Advisory Committee;
                           Educational Subcomittee
2003 – 2004         Board Member, Carolina/Virginia Chapter SCCM

STATE:


2001 – Present     North Carolina Committee on Trauma
2002 – Present     North Carolina COT Research Subcommittee

NATIONAL:

2001 – 2003         Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma;
                           Program Committee

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES:


2003 – Present      Associate Director, Surgical Critical Care
                           Department of Surgery
                           Division of Trauma & Surgical Critical Care
                           The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina  
                           University
                           Greenville, NC

2004 – Present     Clinical Champion, Organ Donation Breakthrough    
                          Collaborative
                          Patient Access Medical Director

TEACHING ACTIVITIES:

THE BRODY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE:

2000                    Participant, The 12 Steps to Successful Grants and 
                           Contract Proposals,
                           Faculty Development Workshop
2000 – Present      3rd Year Medical Student Mentor Program
                           3rd Year Medical Student Clerkship Lecturer:    
                           “Abdominal Trauma”
                           4th Year Medical Student Advisor
                           Regional Outreach PrehospitalTrauma Lecturer
                           Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Course  
                           Instructor
                           ATLS Course Director
2001                    Participant, How to Conduct Qualitative Research,
                           Faculty Development
                           Workshop
2001 – Present      Examiner, Surgical Resident Oral Examinations
2002                    Section Editor, “Fundamentals of Surgical
                           Education”, Surgical Resident
                           Curriculum, 4th Edition
                           Pediatric Education for Pre-hospital Provider Course
                           Director
2002-2003            Chairman, Eastern Regional Advisory Committee;  
                           Educational Subcomittee
2002 – Present      Development of Surgical Critical Care (SCC)  
                           Residency Program
                           Charles Robb Surgical Society
                           Director, Multidisciplinary Critical Care Conference
2002 – 2003         Transition to Residency Trauma Course Director
2003 – Present      Advisor, Wilderness Medicine Club
                           Focused Critical Care Support Course Director
2004 – Present      Development of Surgical Critical Care Residency
                           Curriculum
                           Allied Health Education Committee Lecturer

PITT COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL:


2000 – Present     Critical Care Nursing Continuing Education Lecturer
2001 – Present     Advanced Level Practitioner Continuing Education
                          Lecturer

STATE:

2003                   Facilitator, North Carolina COT Resident Paper
                          Competition, Asheville, NC

NATIONAL:

2004                   Participant, Summit on ICU Quality and Cost,
                          Chicago, IL

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS:

My investigative interests, a very significant component of my motivation to pursue a career in academic medicine, are diverse. I am interested in clinical research in general surgery and injury, and both clinical and basic science research in surgical critical care. Future research activities will be focused primarily in emergency general surgery, trauma epidemiology, and surgical critical care. Surgical critical care projects will include prospective clinical research in surgical intensive care unit pharmacology, infectious disease, performance improvement, ventilator associated pneumonia, and acute lung injury. Basic science goals include development of a multisystem trauma acute lung injury animal model.

PUBLICATIONS:

JOURNALS:


1. Toschlog EA, MacElligot J, Sagraves SG, Schenarts PJ, Bard MR, Goettler CE, Rotondo MF, Swanson MS: The Relationship of Injury Severity Score (ISS) and Glascow Coma Score (GCS) To Rehabilitative Potential In Patients Suffering Traumatic Brain Injury. American Surgeon. 69(6): 491-498, 2003.

2. Toschlog EA, Blount KP, Rotondo MF, Sagraves SG, Bard MR, Schenarts PJ, Swanson M, Goettler CE: Clinical Predictors of Subtherapeutic Aminoglycoside Levels In Trauma Patients Undergoing Once-Daily Dosing. Journal of Trauma. 55(2): 255-62, 2003.

3. Sagraves SG, Conquest AM, Albrecht RJ, Toschlog EA, Schenarts PJ, Bard MR, Powell CS, Rotondo MF: Popliteal Artery Trauma In A Rural Level I Trauma Center. American Surgeon 69(6): 485-490, 2003.

4. Bard MR, Goettler CE, Schenarts PJ, Collins BA, Toschlog EA, Sagraves SG, Rotondo MF: Language Barrier Leads to the Unnecessary Intubation of Trauma Patients. American Surgeon, accepted not yet in print.

5. Goettler CE, Bard MR, Toschlog EA. Laparoscopy in Trauma. Current Surgery, accepted not yet in print.

6. Bowen J, Schenarts PJ, Bard MR, Sagraves SG, Toschlog EA, Goettler CE, Cromwells, Rotondo MF. Does Resident Continuity of Care Matter? : The Effect of a Night-Float Coverage Scheme on Morbidity and Mortality at a Regional Level I Trauma Center. Journal of American Surgery, accepted not yet in print.

ABSTRACTS:


1. Toschlog EA, Rotondo MF, Blount K, Pender J, Sagraves SG, Schenarts PJ, Bard MR: Clinical Predictors of Sub-therapeutic Aminoglycoside Levels in Trauma Patients Undergoing Once-Daily Dosing. Journal of Trauma 53(6): 1204, 2002.

2. Sagraves SG, Rotondo MF, Toschlog EA, Schenarts PJ, Bard MR: Brief Interval Transfer (BIT): The Morbid Consequence of Delay To The Trauma Center in a Rural Patient Demographic. Journal of Trauma 53(6): 1209, 2002.

3. Toschlog EA, Rotondo MF, Spain T, Walker J, Crowder G, Barrett A, Joyner M, Sagraves SG, Schenarts PF, Bard MR, Swanson M, Goettler CE. Characterization Of Trauma Patients Lost To Follow-Up. Journal of Trauma 53(6):1214, 2002.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Toschlog EA, Morris, JA, Jr: Wilderness Trauma and Surgical Emergencies. In: Wilderness Medicine, 4th Edition, Auerbach PS, ed., St. Louis, Mosby, July 2001.

Toschlog EA, Dulabon GR, Rotondo MF: Shock: Unbound Surgery (an online text): www.unboundmedicine.com. May 2002.

Toschlog EA. Section Editor. Fundamentals of Surgical Education. In: Surgical Resident Curriculum, 4th Edition, Cox, Pofahl, Pories, eds., The Association of Program Directors in Surgery, Arlington, VA, 2002.

CONTRACT RESEARCH:


Multicenter, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized, Phase III Study of tifacogin [Recombinant Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor (rTFPI/59735)] in Severe Sepsis (Chiron Corporation), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 1998-1999.

A Multicenter, Randomized, Open-Label Study to Compare the Safety and Efficacy of Levofloxacin with that of Imipenem/Cilastin in the Treatment of Nosocomial Pneumonia (Ortho-McNeill), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 1998-1999.

A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of a Single Intravenous Dose of CP-101,606 in Subjects with Severe Head Injury (Pfizer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 1998-1999.

A Phase II, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Bline, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group, Dose-Ranging Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of alpha-hANP Infusion (Carperitide for Injection: SUN 4936) in Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) (Suntory Pharmaceuticals), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 1998-1999.

Open-Label Randomized, Multicenter, Phase III Study of Intravenous Synercid 7.5 mg/kg q 8 hours plus Aztreonam 2g q 8 hours versus Standard Therapy in the Treatment of 190 Adult Evaluable Hospitalized Patients with Nosocomial Pneumonia Due, at Least in Part, to Gram Positive Cocci (Aventis Pharmaceuticals), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 1998-1999.

A Multicenter, Phase III Study to Asses the Safety and Efficacy of Bactericidal/Permeability-Increasing Protein (rBPI21) in Patients with Hemorrhage Due to Trauma (XOMA), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 1998-1999.

A Phase Iib Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Recombinant Platelet Activating Factor Acetylhydrolase (rPAF-AH) for the Prevention of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) in Patients with Severe Sepsis or Traumatic Injuries (ICOS Corporation), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 1998-1999.

A Multicentre, Randomized, Open Pilot Study to Compare the Efficacy and Safety of Albumin (Human) 5% plus Ringer’s Lactate versus Ringer’s Lactate Alone for Patients Suffering from Thermal Injury (Bayer, Inc.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 1998-1999.

A Randomized, Open-Label, Pilot Assessment of the Efficacy of Protonix IV for Injection (Pantoprazole Sodium) on Gastric pH in ICU Patients (Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 1998-1999.

PRESENTATIONS:

INVITED LECTURES:

“Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide”. Surgical Grand Rounds, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY, April 1993.

“Time to Pull the Pulmonary Artery Catheter”?. Surgical Grand Rounds, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY, May 1994.

“Volume Resuscitation in Critically Ill Patients”. Surgical Grand Rounds, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY, July 1995.

“Management of Bites and Stings”. Surgical Grand Rounds, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY, April, 1998.

“Arthropod Envenomation”. Fellow’s Conference, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, May 1998.

“Twentieth Century Bloodletting: The Use of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in Sepsis”.
Fellow’s Conference, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, September 1999.

“Coagulopathy”. Critical Care Nursing Educational Symposium, Greenville, NC, November 2000.

“Trauma Care: NC Update and Current Controversies”. NC Chapter – American College of Surgeons Meeting, Grove Park Inn, Asheville, NC, July 2001.

“Project Impact”. Orchestrated teleconference on ICU data acquisition systems, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC, January 2002.

“Burns”. Chairman’s Conference, East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, February 2002.

“Management of Envenomation”. Transition to Residency Program, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, March 2002.

“Ventilator Associated Pneumonia”. Critical Care Grand Rounds, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2002.

“Bedside Surgery In-service”. Critical Care Nursing Continuing Education, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC, May 2002.

“Blunt Abdominal Trauma”. Intermediate Care Unit Nursing Continuing Education, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC, September 2002.

“Scene Management and Trauma”. Outreach Education, College of the Albemarle, Manteo, NC, November 2002.

“Airway Management and Trauma Scenarios”. Outreach Education, Dare County EMS, Nags Head, NC, December 2002.

“Wild Animal Attacks from Myth to Treatment”. Wilderness Medical Society Conference, City Bistro and Hotel, Greenville, NC, November 2002.

“Critical Care”. Chairman’s Conference, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, September 2003.

“Environmental Trauma”. Multidisciplinary Trauma Conference, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC, January 2003.

“Ventilation Strategies”. Midlevel Nurse Practitioner Education, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC, January 2003.

“Snake Envenomation”. Pediatric Emergency Department Grand Rounds, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, March 2003.

“Management of Blunt Trauma”. North Carolina Surgical Society Annual Meeting, Southern Pines, NC, April 2003.

“Future Directions in Critical Care”. Multidisciplinary Critical Care Conference, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC, June 2003.

“Prehospital Trauma Care”. Beaufort County Community College, EMS Providers, Washington, NC, September 2003.

“Shark Attack on Man”. North Carolina Aquarium, Manteo, NC, June 2003.

“Envenomation in Eastern North Carolina”. AHEC Lecture, Cherry Point AFB, Goldsboro, NC, February, 2004.

ABSTRACTS:

“The Relationship of Injury Severity Score (ISS) and Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) to Rehabilitative Potential in Patients Suffering Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)”. Southeastern Surgical Congress, Savannah, GA, February 2003.

“Clinical Predictors of Subtherapeutic Aminoglycoside Levels in Trauma Patients Undergoing Once-Daily Dosing”. Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) 16th Scientific Assembly, Fort Myers, FL, January 2003.

POSTERS:

“Characterization of Trauma Patients Lost to Follow-Up”. Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) 16th Scientific Assembly, Fort Myers, FL, January 2003.

“Rural Trauma Recidivism: A Different Disease”. Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) 17th Scientific Assembly, Amelia Island, FL, Janurary 2004.

INVITED DISCUSSANT:

“Associated Injuries in Blunt Solid Organ Trauma: Implications For Missed Injury In Non-Operative Management”. Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 15th Scientific Assembly, Orlando, FL, January 2002.

“How Long Should You Wait for a Chest X-ray After Placing a Chest Tube on Water Seal”?
Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 17th Scientific Assembly, Amelia Island, FL, Janurary 2004.

SPECIAL HONORS AND AWARDS:


1985-1989  Elizabeth P. Clemments Scholarship, Denison University
1987-1989  Lamson Stage Curtis Scholarship, Denison University
1989          Schell Memorial Grant, Denison University
1989          Sigma Xi Research Honorary, Denison University
1986          All-North Coast Athletic Conference Football Team,
                 Denison University




 

 
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