Michael Ditillo, DO, FACS, is a clinical assistant professor of surgery with the Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Burns and Emergency Surgery. He is also the director of Geriatric Trauma, Acute Care, and Surgical Critical Care at Banner University Medical Center – Tucson. Dr. Ditillo earned his undergraduate degree from Long Island University and his medical degree from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his residency in general surgery at the Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, and was fellowship-trained in trauma and surgical critical care at The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. After finishing his fellowship, Dr. Ditillo served as assistant professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine/Yale New Haven Hospital for five years before moving to Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh, he served as an assistant professor of surgery at Allegheny General Hospital in the Division of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care. He was also the director of the Trauma Critical Care Unit, the associate director of the critical care fellowshiprogram, and the assistant residency director of the general surgery fellowshiprogram. At the University of Arizona School of Medicine, Dr. Ditillo has served clinically as the Director of Geriatric Trauma and Assistant director of the Trauma/Surgical ICU as well as as the General Surgery ClerkshiDirector, FellowshiDirector of the Surgical Critical Care/Acute Care Surgery Fellowship, Co-Director, Faculty Instructional Development and the General Surgery Residency Program Director. Dr. Ditillo’s clinical interests are in geriatric trauma, post-cardiac arrest hypothermia, coagulopathy in trauma, and hemostatic resuscitation.