UNC TAR HEEL TRAUMA PROGRAM - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Dan Park, MD, MBA is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He serves as the Medical Director of the Pediatric Emergency Department. He was fellowship trained in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Emergency Ultrasound at the Medical University of South Carolina, he completed pediatric residency at Yale, and received his medical degree from The Medical College of Virginia. He also received an MBA from UNC Pembroke. Dr. Park is a nationally recognized expert in pediatric point of care ultrasound. Over the past few years, he has shifted his focus to improving operations in the Pediatric Emergency Department. He serves on the Fixed Term Promotions Committee for the UNC School of Medicine and Co-chairs the ASAP workgroup that oversees optimization of Epic for Emergency Departments across the UNC Health System. He lives in Chapel Hill with his three daughters and wife who is a Pediatric Cardiologist at Duke.
Job Titles:
- Physical Therapist at UNC Hospital
Jennifer Turley has been a physical therapist at UNC Hospital for 13 years. She is a Clinical Specialist and has focused on trauma patients and ICU patients during her time at UNC. She has also collaborated with the UNC PT school to teach TBI lectures, SCI lectures and labs, and presented at PT Grand Rounds.
Katherine Croft, BSN, RN - Program Manager, UNC Transgender Health Program A former management professional in operations and logistics, Katherine entered the medical profession as her second career by attending the Unviersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for her Bachelor's Degree in Nursing. Katherine has worked within the UNC Health System since her graduation, and as of 2019 she became the founder and Program Manager of the UNC Transgender Health Program. The UNC Transgender Health Program has grown rapidly since its inception and now provides comprehensive gender affirming care services to thousands of transgender and non-binary patients throughout the Southeast.
Dr. McClellan is a graduate of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and joined UNC in 2023 as part of the military-civilian partnership that integrates Army surgeons into civilian academic centers.
Prior to that he served in faculty roles at the University of Washington School of Medicine Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Burn, and Critical Care Surgery (Seattle, WA) and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (Bethesda, MD). He completed his Surgical Critical Care Fellowship and Burn Certification at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA .
He is Co-Editor and Founder of Behind the Knife, a surgical podcast turned educational platform that is continuing to provide excellent educational resources for trainees and lifelong learners.
As a graduate of the UNC SOM and from the UNC Internal Medicine Residency program, Paul has been an active practicing hospitalist at UNC Ch-Hill since 2009. He completed further training in geriatrics as a Reynolds Grant Scholar and now serves as the Geriatric Provider Liaison for the UNC Trauma Program.
Dr. Ossman's clinical interests include integrating geriatric medicine and palliative care medicine into the continuing education of hospitalists as well as educating on caring for patients with comorbid personality disorders. As an educator, Dr. Ossman has been a guest lecturer on communication to both undergraduates as well as new nursing graduates and has given talks about "difficult patients" to multiple medical groups and nursing cohorts. He also is an active member in the UNC Hospital Ethics committee where he has been a lead consultant since 2009 and continues to educate clinicians and residents across departments in clinical bioethics.
Job Titles:
- Pediatric Trauma Program Coordinator
Victoria Boggiano MD MPH is an Assistant Professor in the UNC Department of Family Medicine, where she has the ability to provide gender affirming care to more than thirty patients in addition to other primary care, obstetrics, pediatrics, and inpatient adult medicine. Originally from Maryland, shewent to college at Dartmouth in New Hampshire, medical school at Stanford,and attended family medicine residency here at UNC. She is thrilled to be presenting with Katherine Croft about gender affirming care at UNC and ways that it has continued to evolve to meet the needs of the community.