Jeffrey Young, MD

Dr Jeffrey Young is the Senior Associate Chief Medical and Quality Officer, Professor of Surgery, and Director of the UVA Trauma Center. He was an Echols Scholar graduate of the University of Virginia and the Medical College of Virginia. He completed his general surgery residency and trauma surgery fellowship at the North Carolina Baptist Hospital at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He was a finalist in the National Residents Paper Competition for the ACS COT. He joined the faculty at the University of Virginia in 1994 as Director of the UVA Trauma Center. He was appointed Associate Chief of Staff for Quality and Performance Improvement, Chief Quality Officer, and is currently the Senior Associate Chief Medical and Quality Officer at the University of Virginia. He has also previously served as the Director of the Surgical Trauma ICU at UVA .

He has served as State Chair for the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, member of the Verification Review Committee and Performance Improvement and Patient Safety Committee, and is currently a member of the National Committee on Trauma. He is a past President of the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and the Executive Committee of the Southeastern Surgical Congress. He is a co-creator and instructor in the Optimal Trauma Center Organization and Management Course sponsored by the ACS and the STN.

He has published research in performance improvement, clinical trauma care, trauma systems, basic science of shock and lung injury, medical decision making and simulation. He has over 60 publications in these areas, and multiple book chapters. His current research focuses on enhancement of the training of medical students and residents through low fidelity simulation to improve performance and outcomes and decrease errors in clinical care.