MEDIA ALERT

WHAT:

Media availability about a new partnership that has stationed five Army health care professionals at OHSU.

WHO:

Presenters will include:

• Brig. Gen. Telita Crosland, commanding general, Regional Health Command-Atlantic
• OHSU Executive Vice President and CEO of OHSU health system John Hunter, M.D., FACS.
• Martin Schreiber, M.D., chief of OHSU Healthcare’s Trauma, Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery Division and director of AMCT3 program at OHSU
• Army health care professionals stationed at OHSU

WHEN:

11 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019

WHERE:

OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital

700 S.W. Campus Drive

Portland, OR 97239

Editors: Reporters/photographers should gather in the lobby of OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital; they will be escorted to the event location from there. Paid hourly parking is available nearby in Parking Structure F, which is also located on SW Campus Drive. Event questions should be directed to Franny White, whitef@ohsu.edu, 971-413-1992 (cell).

DETAILS:

OHSU is one of two hospitals nationwide participating in the new Army Military Civilian Trauma Team Training program, which has stationed five Army health care professionals at OHSU. The soldiers are working alongside their OHSU colleagues to jointly care for OHSU trauma patients. OHSU and Army officials, including the soldiers themselves, will provide more information at the Jan. 22 media availability.