Michael H. Thomason, M.D., F.A.C.S.
is the Director of CMC's F.H. "Sammy" Ross, Jr. Center and Associate Chairman of the Department of General Surgery at Carolinas Medical Center. Dr. Thomason completed his internship and residency at Charlotte Memorial Hospital and Medical Center, Charlotte. Dr. Thomason has added qualifications in Surgical Critical Care and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Southeastern Surgical Congress, and a member of American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) and Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST). He is an Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Instructor and Course Director. Dr. Thomason also serves as a site visitor/reviewer for the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Verification Review Committee.

David G. Jacobs, M.D., F.A.C.S.
serves as the Associate Director of CMC's F.H. "Sammy" Ross, Jr. Center. Dr. Jacobs completed his internship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He completed his residency at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio. He also completed a fellowship in Pediatric Surgical Research at the Sick Children's Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and a fellowship in Trauma/Surgical Critical Care at the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS) in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Jacobs is board certified in general surgery as well as in surgical critical care. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and is a member of the of American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), the EAST, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). Dr. Jacobs is the Director of Trauma Performance Improvement, Associate Medical Director of MedCenter Air and is the Chairman of the Violence Prevention Committee.

Ronald F. Sing, D.O., F.A.C.S.
joined the attending staff of CMC's F.H. "Sammy" Ross, Jr. Center in 1995. Dr. Sing completed his residency at the Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and then went on to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for his trauma and surgical critical care fellowship. Dr. Sing is a diplomat of the American Board of Surgery with added qualifications in Surgical Critical Care. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Chest Physicians. He is a member of multiple national and international organizations including the of American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), the EAST, the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), the International Trauma Anesthesia Critical Care Society and the International Wound Ballistics Association. Dr. Sing is very active in research and publishing and has recently released a textbook entitled, "The Initial Management of Injuries - an Evidence-Based Approach."

William S. Miles, M.D., F.A.C.S.
joined the attending staff of CMC's F.H. "Sammy" Ross, Jr. Center 1995. He is currently the Director of Surgical Critical Care and the Medical Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit. He is also the Chairman of the Hospital Wide ICU Advisory Committee. He completed his internship and residency at University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Richland Memorial Hospital, Columbia. He also completed a fellowship in Trauma/Surgical Critical Care at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Miles is board certified in general surgery and surgical critical care. He was accepted as a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) in October 1998. Dr. Miles' interest in resident education won him the title of "Attending of the Year" from the General Surgery residents for recognition of excellence in surgical education in 1996. He has completed a Surgical Education Research Fellowship position (2000) through the Association of Surgical Education and the American College of Surgeons. His research in Blinded Interviewing of Surgical Resident Applicants won the 2002 Haemonetics Best Paper Award at the Association of Surgical Education Meeting in Toronto, Canada.

Toan T. Huynh, M.D., F.A.C.S.
has been an attending surgeon at the CMC's F.H. "Sammy" Ross, Jr. Center since 1998. Dr. Huynh completed internship and residency in General Surgery at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. During his residency, Dr. Huynh obtained a NIH-NRSA Trauma Research Fellowship (T32-GM08450) and studied the mechanisms of Kupffer cell alterations after trauma and sepsis. He also completed a clinical fellowship in Trauma Surgical Critical Care. At Carolinas Medical Center, Dr. Huynh continues his studies on Kupffer cell alterations and hepatic microvascular dysfunction after inflammatory stress. Dr. Huynh is active in professional organizations, including the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Association for Academic Surgery, Shock Society, American College of Surgeons and Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM).