Mississippi Trauma Care System - Trauma Advisory Committee Members

NAME	TERM EXPIRES	REPRESENTING
Ed Thompson, M.D. State Health Officer, Mississippi State Department of Health	----------	Chairman
K.C. Hamp, Sheriff Tunica County Tunica, Mississippi	6/30/2009	County/Municipal Government
John Nelson, MD Hattiesburg, Mississippi	6/30/2010	Mississippi Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians
Robert Schmieg, MD University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, Mississippi	6/30/2010	American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma, Mississippi Chapter
Rodney E. Frothingham, MD Delta Regional Medical Center Greenville, Mississippi	6/30/2010	State Medical Association
Vacant	6/30/2009	State Medical Association
Rick Lassiter, CEO Baptist Memorial - Golden Triangle Columbus, Mississippi	6/30/2010	Mississippi Hospital Association
Doug Higginbotham Executive Director South Central Regional Medical Center Laurel, Mississippi	7/1/2008	Mississippi Hospital Association
H. S. McMillan, Executive Director Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services Jackson, Mississippi	6/30/2010	Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services
Amber Kyle, RN University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, Mississippi	6/30/2010	Mississippi Emergency Nurses Association
Vacant	6/30/2010	North Trauma Care Region
Bennie Wright, MD Cleveland, Mississippi	6/30/2010	Delta Trauma Care Region
Clyde Deschamp, Ph.D., NREMT-P Jackson, Mississippi	7/1/2010	Central Trauma Care Region
Vacant	7/1/2009	East Central Trauma Care Region
Ben Yarbrough, MD Meadville, Mississippi	7/1/2010	Southwest Trauma Care Region
Jerry M. Howell, CEO Marion General Hospital Columbia, Mississippi	6/30/2010	Southeast Trauma Care Region
William T. (Pete) Avara III, MD Pascagoula, Mississippi	6/30/2010	Coastal Trauma Care Region