Bryan A. Cotton, MD, MPH

Bryan A. Cotton, MD, MPH is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. He received his undergraduate degree from Baylor University and his medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine. Dr. Cotton then completed a residency in General Surgery at the University of Missouri and a fellowship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Upon completing fellowship in 2004, he accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where he also earned a Masters of Public Health. In 2009, Dr. Cotton accepted his current position at The University of Texas Health Science Center as well as a faculty position at the Center for Translational Injury Research, also in Houston. He is the Director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at UT-Houston and the Associate Director of the Shock-Trauma ICU. His clinical specialties are trauma surgery and surgical critical care.
Dr. Cotton’s research focuses on identifying optimal resuscitation strategies for hemorrhagic shock and the early prediction of patients who will receive massive transfusion of blood and blood products. To that end, he currently holds funding from the State of Texas Emerging Technologies Fund (Rapid Identification of Patients Who Will Receive Massive Transfusion) and the Department of Defense (The Use of Whole Blood in Severely Injured Patients Receiving Massive Transfusion). He has also recently received funding from Haemonetics Corporation for a multicenter, investigator initiated study evaluating the use of rapid thromboelastography in detecting the early coagulopathy of trauma and in guiding its treatment. In the last three years, Dr. Cotton has published over twenty manuscripts specifically related to hemorrhagic shock resuscitation and early identification of the acute coagulopathy of trauma.