The Shock Trauma & Nutrition Research Laboratories
The Shock Trauma & Nutrition Research Laboratories consist of 1500 square feet of research laboratories and offices in the research building of UT Medical Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. The laboratories are well equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation and computer equipment and provide a unique environment where complex research activities can be effectively coordinated between basic and clinical research scientists assuring continued productivity in research areas of shock, trauma and nutrition.
Program Objectives
The Division of Surgical Research has four full-time laboratory scientists and is comprised of several research laboratories including a shared core research laboratory for use by surgery residents, critical care and vascular fellows, undergraduate and graduate students, and faculty investigators. The core research laboratory contains research equipment and computers designed to increase the overall functional capacity of the individual laboratories. It is imperative that surgical residents, undergraduate and graduate students, medical students, and critical care and vascular fellows are exposed to the exciting challenges of basic and clinical research as a first step to an academic career in research, surgery or as a well-educated community practitioner.
Resident Research Year
Surgical residents and research fellows are involved in ongoing research and are encouraged to initiate their own investigations under faculty guidance.
Current Research
Current research interests include vascular biology and cardiovascular physiology, platelet physiology, nutrition, bioterrorism, non-linear dynamic modeling, trauma, and transplantation immunology. In addition to research projects within the various divisions of the Department of Surgery, collaborative investigators in the Departments of Medical Genetics, Anesthesiology, Pathology, Medicine, Radiology and the UT College of Veterinary Medicine offer an extensive assortment of projects including immunology, hematology, cell physiology, medical genetics, tumor biology, molecular biology and cytometry.
Program Description
One resident is selected by the Resident Research Committee at the end of the first year for participation in this highly competitive program in which selection is made on the basis of project plans submitted by the first year residents. The resident will spend one year after completion of the second residency year in a rigorous clinical or fundamental research program in the area of the resident's interest. The resident will plan to re-enter the clinical program at the third year level. The research must be carried out in a research laboratory approved by the department.
The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
Department of Surgery
Graduate School of Medicine
The University of Tennessee Medical Center
l924 Alcoa Highway, Box U-11
Knoxville, Tennessee 37920