Trauma Team

The Level 1 Trauma Center at Rhode Island Hospital consists of a broad team of medical professionals and care providers specially trained in treating critically ill trauma and burn victims.

Trauma surgeons and other team members are in the hospital 24 hours a day, seven days a week, ready to treat a variety of traumatic injuries. Physicians in specialties ranging from neurosurgery and orthopedics to plastic surgeons and obstetricians and gynecologists are on standby as well. These medical providers are backed up by an institution wide commitment to care of the injured patient. Rhode Island Hospital is the only American College of Surgeons certified Level 1 Trauma Center in our region, and is the only hospital with the entire spectrum of resources required to take care of all the needs of the complex trauma patient.

Our trauma surgical team oversees the efforts to determine the patient's life-threatening injuries and coordinates the complete care of the injured patient including any surgical interventions that are required. The trauma team works in a multi-disciplinary fashion to provide state-of-the-art care throughout the hospital admission, and rehabilitation period as well.

Trauma Surgeons

Eftikhar Abureida Akam, DO

Traumatologist and Surgical Intensivist, Brown Health Medical Group Surgery

Artur Chernoguz, MD

Pediatric Surgeon

Brent Emigh, MD

Benjamin M. Hall, MD

David T. Harrington, MD

Director, Rhode Island Burn Center at Rhode Island Hospital

Carl-Christian A. Jackson, MD

Pediatric Surgeon

Tareq Kheirbek, MD

Stephanie N. Lueckel, MD

Chief of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care

Francois I. Luks, MD, PhD

Pediatric Surgeon-in-Chief and Division Chief of Pediatric Surgery, Hasbro Children's

Sean Monaghan, MD

Surgeon, Rhode Island Hospital

Julie Monteagudo, MD

Medical Director, Pediatric ECMO Services, Pediatric Vascular Anomalies Service; Pediatric Surgeon

Niel Page, MD

Surgeon, Brown Health Medical Group Surgery

Elizabeth Renaud, MD

Medical Director, Pediatric Trauma

Kathleen Elizabeth Singer, MD

Trauma Surgeon

Holden Spivak, MD

Surgeon, Brown Health Medical Group Surgery

Andrew H. Stephen, MD

Erin Blais, NP

Nurse Practitioner

Justine Currier, PA-C

Physician Assistant

Linda Girouard, PA-C

Physician Assistant

Taresa Kulik, PA-C

Physician Assistant

Kenneth A. Lynch, Jr., PhD, APRN-CNP

Nurse Practitioner

Lauren Marvell, MSN, APRN

Nurse Practitioner

Michelle Miceli, NP-C

Nurse Practitioner

Veronica Buchanan, MSN, APRN, AGACNP-BC

Nurse Practitioner

Trauma Team

Trauma Surgeons

Eftikhar Abureida Akam, DO

Traumatologist and Surgical Intensivist, Brown Health Medical Group Surgery

Artur Chernoguz, MD

Pediatric Surgeon

Brent Emigh, MD

Benjamin M. Hall, MD

David T. Harrington, MD

Director, Rhode Island Burn Center at Rhode Island Hospital

Carl-Christian A. Jackson, MD

Pediatric Surgeon

Tareq Kheirbek, MD

Stephanie N. Lueckel, MD

Chief of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care

Francois I. Luks, MD, PhD

Pediatric Surgeon-in-Chief and Division Chief of Pediatric Surgery, Hasbro Children's

Sean Monaghan, MD

Surgeon, Rhode Island Hospital

Julie Monteagudo, MD

Medical Director, Pediatric ECMO Services, Pediatric Vascular Anomalies Service; Pediatric Surgeon

Niel Page, MD

Surgeon, Brown Health Medical Group Surgery

Elizabeth Renaud, MD

Medical Director, Pediatric Trauma

Kathleen Elizabeth Singer, MD

Trauma Surgeon

Holden Spivak, MD

Surgeon, Brown Health Medical Group Surgery

Andrew H. Stephen, MD

Advanced Practice Providers

Erin Blais, NP

Nurse Practitioner

Justine Currier, PA-C

Physician Assistant

Linda Girouard, PA-C

Physician Assistant

Taresa Kulik, PA-C

Physician Assistant

Kenneth A. Lynch, Jr., PhD, APRN-CNP

Nurse Practitioner

Lauren Marvell, MSN, APRN

Nurse Practitioner

Michelle Miceli, NP-C

Nurse Practitioner

Veronica Buchanan, MSN, APRN, AGACNP-BC

Nurse Practitioner