Mary E Fallat, MD

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Dr. Fallat joined the University of Louisville in 1987. She became the Chief of Pediatric Surgery in 2002 and the first Hirikati S. Nagaraj endowed Professor in Pediatric Surgery at the University of Louisville. Dr. Fallat has a long history of service and leadership in Pediatric Surgery and is a past President of the American Pediatric Surgical Association, past Chair of the American College of Surgeons Pediatric Surgery Advisory Council, and the current Secretary of the Section on Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Her interest areas include ethics, trauma, and emergency medical services (EMS). She served on the Committee on Bioethics for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and was the first surgeon to Chair this national committee. She has written AAP position statements on pediatric professionalism, fertility preservation for children and adolescents who have cancer, and resuscitation strategies for terminally ill children who need surgery and anesthesia. Dr. Fallat started the first pediatric trauma service in Louisville, while simultaneously developing a leadership role in the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. She led the initiative in Kentucky that culminated in Trauma System Legislation in 2008. She has been continuously funded as program director for the KY EMS for Children program since 1993. She participated in the Institute of Medicine project “The Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System” as a member of the Subcommittee on Pediatric Emergency Care. She has twice led the initiative to revise the national Equipment for Ambulances list. She has recently completed a grant to develop an educational program and app to train EMS providers to cope with pediatric cardiopulmonary arrest and death in the field.