Biography
Dr. Cushman is a seasoned Trauma/Critical Care surgeon. He earned his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and his medical degree from Columbia Physicians and Surgeons Medical School. He remained in New York at St. Vincent’s for his surgical residency followed by a fellowship in Trauma/Critical Care at University of California, San Diego. Dr. Cushman's trauma/critical care experience includes appointments at several of this nation’s most prestigious trauma centers including service on the surgical faculty at Grady Memorial in Atlanta, Bellevue Medical Center in New York City, and a seven year tenure as Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Maryland’s Shock Trauma Center.
Dr. Cushman fulfilled a childhood dream by taking a second residency in Aerospace Medicine between 2011-2013, earning a Masters in Public Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. This residency has affiliations with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) where he participated in a training program designed to train present and future flight surgeons in support of manned exploration of space.
Education
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, B.A., Biology, 1981
Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, M.D., 1986
University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston, TX, MPH, 2012
St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center, New York, Residency, 1986-1991
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, Residency in Aerospace Medicine Training, 2013
University of California, San Diego, Trauma/Surgical Critical Care Fellow, Division of Trauma, 1991-1992
Board Certifications
American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
American Board of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
Clinical Expertise
Trauma management (operative and non-operative)
Damage control strategies and surgery mass casualty preparation
Research Interests
The role of surgeon-performed ultrasound in evaluation of cardiac injury (1966)
Physiologic failure in trauma patients undergoing abbreviated laparotomy (1997)
Trauma Quality Assurance and Analysis of Complications in Trauma (1993, 2005, 2010)
The conviction process (legal) for intoxicated drivers in Pennsylvania (2001)
Mass casualty preparation and response (2001)
Publications
- Traumatic lumbar visceral hernia.| | PubMed
- Acute exertional lumbar paraspinal compartment syndrome.| | PubMed
- Disaster preparedness, triage, and surge capacity for hospital definitive care areas: optimizing outcomes when demands exceed resources.| | PubMed
- Superficial septic thrombophlebitis.| | PubMed
- Two New York City hospitals' surgical response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City.| | PubMed
- Disaster preparation and management for the intensive care unit.| | PubMed
- Remembering September 11: reflections from Bellevue Hospital and New York University Medical Center.| | PubMed
- Practice management guidelines for the management of mild traumatic brain injury: the EAST practice management guidelines work group.| | PubMed
- The injured intoxicated driver: analysis of the conviction process.| | PubMed
- Blunt splenic injury in adults: Multi-institutional Study of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.| | PubMed
- Iliac vessel injury: operative physiology related to outcome.| | PubMed