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Thursday April 8, 2021
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

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Mary E. Klotman, MD (SPEAKER)
Duke School of Medicine, Dean
Duke University, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs

Mary E. Klotman, MD, was chair of the Department of Medicine at Duke University March 1, 2010 through July 1, 2017. On July 1 she became dean of the Duke School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University.

Klotman earned her undergraduate (zoology) and medical degrees from Duke, and then completed her internal medicine residency and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at Duke. She became assistant professor of medicine at Duke before moving to the National Institutes of Health, where she was a member of the Public Health Service and trained and worked in the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology under the direction of Robert C. Gallo, MD.

In 1994, Klotman joined the faculty at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, where she was a tenured professor of medicine and microbiology and associate professor of gene and cell medicine; she held the Irene and Dr. Arthur M. Fishberg Chair in Infectious Diseases. She served as chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases for 13 years and co-director of Mount Sinai’s Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute. She returned to Duke in March 2010 to become chair of the Department of Medicine.

Klotman is editor of Annual Reviews of Medicine. She was elected to membership in the Academy of Medicine in 2014 and has served as councilor and is past president of Association of American Physicians and past president of the Association of Professors of Medicine. She is a former president of the Duke Medical Alumni Association, and she received a Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Alumni Award in 2015.

Klotman is married to Paul Klotman, MD, a former resident at Duke, now CEO and president of Baylor School of Medicine in Houston. They have two sons.

Paul Klotman, MD (SPEAKER)
President and CEO
Executive Dean
Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Paul Klotman began serving as president, CEO and Executive Dean of Baylor College of Medicine on September 1, 2010. He received his B.S. degree in 1972 from the University of Michigan and his M.D. from Indiana University in 1976. He completed his medicine and nephrology training at Duke University Medical Center. He stayed at Duke as a faculty member before moving to the National Institutes of Health in 1988, where he became chief of the Molecular Medicine Section in the Laboratory of Developmental Biology. In 1993, he became chief of the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory in the NIDR/NIH. In 1994, he moved to Mount Sinai School of Medicine as Chief of the Division of Nephrology. In 2001, he was selected to be the chair of the Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

At Baylor College of Medicine, he oversees the only private health sciences university in the Greater Southwest United States, with total research funding of more than $500 million. The medical school is ranked among the top 25 institutions for research and the top 5 for primary care by U.S. News & World Report. The School of Health Professions is among the best in the nation as is the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. As the CEO of Baylor College of Medicine, he oversees approximately 15,000 employees, 3,500 students, residents and fellows, and is responsible for the Baylor medical staff at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Texas Children’s Hospital, the DeBakey VA Medical Center, Ben Taub Hospital and its affiliated clinics, the Menninger Clinic and the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio. He serves on the Board of Directors of St. Luke’s Health System and the Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, the College’s jointly owned and governed private adult hospital. The enterprise revenue is over $2 billion dollars with net assets of approximately $2 billion.

Kenneth L. Mattox, MD (MODERATOR)
Special Advisor to the President and CEO of Baylor
Associate Vice Chair for Education in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor

Kenneth L. Mattox, M.D., is one of the most recognized surgeons around the world. He is Distinguished Service Professor of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and Chief of Staff/Chief of Surgery at the Ben Taub Hospital, Houston, Texas. He helped develop the internationally renowned Ben Taub General Hospital Emergency Center and its equally respected Trauma Center. His reputation as an innovator in trauma care is worldwide. He has made original and significant contributions in trauma resuscitation, trauma systems, thoracic trauma, vascular injury, autotransfusion, complex abdominal trauma and multi-system trauma. His research in preoperative fluid restriction for penetrating trauma shook the foundation of surgical doctrine in this area. His textbook, Trauma, is an international best seller, now in its 9^th edition, and he is co-editor of the Sabiston’s Textbook of Surgery, recognized throughout the world. He is co-editor of the second edition of Rich’s Vascular Trauma. A fifth book, History of Surgery in Houston, recounts the last 50 years of Houston’s impressive and colorful surgical heritage. He co-authored the unique, international best seller, Top Knife, a practical guide to trauma care, translated into thirteen foreign languages. He frequently receives emails from physicians in war zones who refer to this “little book” as their Bible in the OR.

Authoring over 600 articles and more than 1000 abstracts, he has also served on six Editorial Boards and has been an Editorial Reviewer for 15 other journals. He has been a visiting professor or consultant to more than 800 medical schools, hospitals, or health care systems throughout the world. For the past 20⁺ years, he has been Program Director of the Las Vegas Trauma, Critical Care, and Acute Care Surgery Course. In 2008, he added the directorship of another international conference to his “docket,” Medical Disaster Response. In its inaugural year, the course sold out. Both conferences are internationally acknowledged as an annual educational tour de force. Doctor Mattox is a member of over 30 professional organizations and is Past President of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Past Secretary-Treasurer of the Michael E. DeBakey International Surgical Society, and Past President of the Houston Surgical Society and Texas Surgical Society. He also served as Vice President of the American College of Surgeons and the American Surgical Association.

He is an active participant in helping to formulate and pass legislation relating to improved care for the trauma patient on local, state, and national levels. He previously served on the Mayor’s Neighborhood-Oriented Government Steering Committee, chaired the Red Ribbon Committee to address HFD Emergency Medical Services, and sat on the Hospital Subcommittee of the Mayor’s Special Task Force on The Medical Aspects of Disaster. Currently, Doctor Mattox serves as consultant to the Center for Biologic Evaluation and Research of the FDA. Additionally, he is the trauma consultant on the Best Doctors Medical Advisory Board.

During the Allison, Katrina, and Rita hurricanes, Doctor Mattox was at the center of the storms’ medical responses. As part of Katrina’s Joint Unified Command Structure, he assisted in the formation of an “Evacuation City” for 27,700 Katrina evacuees. This amazing “city” was built in 18 hours! He was part of the four-member medical branch and supervised the five-tiered medical care for more than 15,000 clinic visits in 14 days. More recently, he has been involved in response to each of the various natural and made-made disasters occurring in the Houston area, as well as, in consultation, other areas around the world.

Doctor Mattox has been listed in “Best Doctors in America, Best Doctors in Houston, and profiled in Inside Houston. The Association of Operating Room Nurses of Greater Houston selected him to receive the 1998 Distinguished Surgeon Award, and in May 2001, was named Distinguished Surgeon by the Houston Surgical Society. He has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Wayland Baptist University and Baylor College of Medicine. In June 2003, Doctor Mattox was given the Barbara and Corbin J. Robertson, Jr., Award for Excellence in Education, the highest educational recognition given at Baylor College of Medicine and has repeatedly been honored by the residents in training in recognition of his guidance and mentorship. In 2010, Doctor Mattox was named Distinguished Service Professor, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine. Doctor Mattox has been chosen to receive the 2012 Distinguished Citizen of the Year Award by the Rotary Club of Houston, and he was awarded the Master Clinician Award by Baylor College of Medicine. The AMA presented him with the 2013 Benjamin Rush Award for Citizenship and Community Service, and the TMA gave him the Platinum Award for Excellence in Academic Medicine.

Doctor Mattox has served on the Board of Directors of the Doctors’ Club of Houston, Wayland Baptist University, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the American College of Surgeons Board of Governors, and the Board of the John P. McGovern Museum for Health & Medical Science, as well as Chairman of the Board for Southeast Texas Trauma Regional Advisory Council. He has served as the Texas Representative to the AMA House of Delegate and was named to the Health Care Delivery subcommittee of the Defense Health Board, a federal advisory committee to the Secretary of Defense.

Effective April 1, 2021, Doctor Mattox stepped down from his longtime position as Chief of Staff at the Ben Taub Hospital and continues his work at Baylor as Special Advisor to the President and CEO of Baylor, Dr. Paul Klotman, and Associate Vice Chair for Education in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor.

Doctor Mattox is equally adept in the emergency center, operating room, intensive care unit, conference room, courtroom, and political arena. Clinician, technician, administrator, educator, researcher, medical statesman, disaster response leader, and iconoclast equally describe this versatile and controversial surgeon.