Our Team

Program Director

Mark Hemmila, MD

Phone: +1 734-763-2854

Email: mhemmila@med.umich.edu

Specialty Consultant

Bryant Oliphant, MD, MBA, MSC

Phone: +1 734-936-9839

Email: bryantol@med.umich.edu

Biography

Mark R. Hemmila, MD, is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan in the Division of Acute Care Surgery. He is a general surgeon and his clinical practice is devoted to trauma and burn surgery, elective and emergent general surgery, and provision of critical care to acutely ill patients. His clinical research interests are in trauma, burn, and general surgery outcomes. In addition, he has a basic science research effort devoted to trauma and burn research. These investigations are focused on pneumonia, systemic effects of burn wounds, and novel treatments of burn wounds with anti-inflammatory/antimicrobial compounds.

Dr. Hemmila received his BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester in 1985. He then completed an MS degree in bioengineering at Columbia University in New York City. His medical degree and subsequent general surgery training were undertaken at the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Hemmila has also completed fellowship training in trauma and burn surgery as well as surgical critical care. He is board certified in surgery and surgical critical care and since 2001 has served as faculty in the University of Michigan Department of Surgery. Dr. Hemmila is a founding member of the Trauma Quality Improvement Program of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.

Biography

Dr. Oliphant is an orthopaedic traumatologist and health services researcher. He received his medical degree from the Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed his orthopaedic surgical residency at Wayne State University-Detroit Medical Center and Saint Louis University Hospital. He completed a fellowship in orthopaedic traumatology at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland. He then obtained a Healthcare Executive MBA at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California – Irvine and a Master of Science in Health and Health Care Research at the University of Michigan. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Wayne State University and is staff physician at Detroit Receiving Hospital. He is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Michigan where he has a career development award through the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases titled “Trauma Center Characteristics that Drive Quality, Cost and Efficiency in Lower Extremity Injuries.” Dr. Oliphant is the chair of the orthopaedic surgery specialty group of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma and he is a member of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association Health Policy Committee. He is also a specialty consultant with the Michigan Trauma Quality Improvement Program where he runs the orthopaedic surgery working group. He is interested in improving quality and value in the trauma care delivered at both the state and national level.

Program Manager

Judy Mikhail, PhD, MBA, RN

Phone: +1 810-964-4950

Email: jmikhail@med.umich.edu

Program Manager

Data & Analytics

Jill Jakubus, PA-C, MHSA, MS

Phone: +1 734-763-8229

Email: jjakubus@med.umich.edu

Biography

Judy N. Mikhail, RN, MSN, MBA, PhD has over 30 years of progressive trauma nursing experience, most recently as Clinical Nurse Specialist, Trauma Program Manager and Trauma Administrator at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, MI. Her primary research interests include trauma center quality improvement, and trauma disparities.

She received a Diploma in Nursing from the Hurley Medical Center School of Nursing, Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Michigan, Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Texas Science Center Houston, Master of Business Administration from Colorado State University and a PhD in Nursing from the Medical University of South Carolina. Her dissertation focused on trauma disparities, the social determinants of violence, and the association of race, insurance and socioeconomic status on trauma outcomes.

Ms. Mikhail has served as President of the Society of Trauma Nurses, President of the Michigan Trauma Coalition, and Chair of the Michigan – State Trauma Advisory Committee. She is a nationally recognized speaker in trauma care and serves as an instructor for the Optimal Trauma Center Organization & Management Course cosponsored by the ACS and STN.