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Dr. Jacobs is professor of surgery and professor of traumatology and emergency medicine, University of Connecticut; and director, Trauma Institute at Hartford Hospital, CT. He is an ACS Regent.

Posts by Lenworth M. Jacobs, Jr., MD, MPH, DSc(HON), FACS, FWACS(Hon):

• Where there’s smoke: Quick Safety article recommends safety precautions
• Make the call: A car crash, trauma care, standards, and inequity
• New Speak Up campaign focuses on how patients can play an active role in surgical safety
• Southern Nevada Trauma System uses proven techniques to save lives after 1 October shooting
• Out of unspeakable tragedy comes progress in bleeding control
• The Hartford Consensus IV: A Call for Increased National Resilience
• Citation for Prof. Sir Errol Ricardo Walrond, MB, BS, BSc(Hon), FACS, FRCSEng, FCCS
• The Hartford Consensus III: Implementation of Bleeding Control
• Citation for Prof. J. Octavio Ruiz Speare, MD, FACS
• Initial management of mass-casualty incidents due to firearms: Improving survival