Transforming Trauma: Advancing Practice, Enhancing Patient Care

A collage of 3 images: Blurred emergency in hospital; Surgeons in full surgical gear during operation; Clinician comforting patient in hospital bed

Fall Trauma Symposium

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 — 6–9:15 p.m.

Penn State Great Valley Conference Center
30 Swedesford Rd, Malvern, PA 19355

Registration/Cost

Registration is open from September 18 through October 6, 2025

  • Main Line Health employees: All registration must be completed through Health Stream. For cancellation, do not cancel through Health Stream.
  • Non-Main Line Health care professionals: Register online

Registration fee: No cost — Registration is required

A light dinner will be served from 5:30–6 p.m.

For questions or assistance with registration, call 484.565.8328 or email LarkinK@mlhs.org.

Target audience

This program is designed for physicians, nurses, physician assistants, prehospital emergency medical service personnel and other interested allied healthcare professionals.

Learning objectives

At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:

  • Discuss the operative indications, transfer criteria, and initial trauma management of amputation and vascular extremity injuries.
  • Examine the evaluation, initial management, and reconstructive options in the management of devastating hand injuries including extremity gunshot wounds, degloving injuries, firework injuries, and spaghetti wrist injuries.
  • Recognize the presentation of spinal cord injuries
  • Identify the management of spinal cord injuries including bedside care
  • Gain a basic understanding of rib fixation and current trends/new technology
  • Identify updated protocols and criteria for burn management
  • Discuss the impact of early cavitary triage of patients with blunt multiregional injuries
  • Describe the impact of burden of injury on physiological and physical recovery of the body

Topics and speakers

Replantation, Revascularization, and Really Messed Up Hands
Corbin Muetterties MD, Plastic and Reconstructive Hand Surgery, Philadelphia Hand to Shoulder Center, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals

Spinal cord injury: An important differential diagnosis after falls in the elderly
Marcus Nartey PA-C, Manager, Advanced Practice Providers, Main Line HealthCare, Neurosurgery

Jack of All Trades, Master of None — My First Seven Years as a Trauma Surgeon
David Lapham DO, Surgical Critical Care, General Surgery, Trauma Surgery – Jefferson Health

Trauma Survivor's Story – A clinical case review
Matthew M. Rosen MD, Trauma Surgeon, Paoli Hospital; Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University

Statements

Accreditation statement: Main Line Health is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Main Line Health is approved as a provider of emergency medical service continuing education by the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

Conflict of interest statement: Faculty and all others who have the ability to control the content of continuing education activities sponsored by Main Line Health are expected to disclose to the audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s).

There is no commercial support for this program.