Ronald I. Gross, MD, FACS

Dr. Ronald Gross is the Chief, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts and an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Gross completed medical school at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine in New York, NY and his general surgery residency at Bellevue Medical Center, NYU School of Medicine. During his surgical residency he was a fellow with the Cardiovascular Research Laboratory and completed his residency as the Chief Resident in Surgery. Dr. Gross served in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps where he held the rank of Colonel and was the Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgical Services for the 405th Combat Support Hospital, and Deputy Commander, Clinical Services of the 912th Forward Surgical Team during his deployment to Iraq in 2003. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and holds membership in the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), and the Society for Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). He is a member of the national American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, a member of the Massachusetts State COT, and a voting member of the Massachusetts State Trauma Committee. He has served as the Vice-Chair and Chair of the Connecticut State COT, and is a site reviewer for the ACS COT Verification Review Committee. For three years, Dr. Gross served on the Board of Directors for LifeChoice Donor Services, serving six counties in Connecticut and three counties in Western Massachusetts, and is currently the “donor champion” for Baystate Medical Center.

Dr. Gross was one of the surgeons chosen for the AAST Distinguished Visiting Surgeon Program at the U.S. Army Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany in 2010, 2011, and 2012. He was the recipient of the “Evening to Honor Excellence” High School Scholarship Foundation Award of Fairfield in 2004, received a Public Service Award from the Southwest Emergency Services Council in 2003, and in 2000 he received the Millennium Commitment Award from the ACS Committee on Trauma. He is a decorated combat veteran, and in 2004 he was the recipient of the Order of Military Medical Merit, an honor given “to those individuals who have clearly demonstrated the highest standards of integrity and moral character, displayed an outstanding degree of professional competence, served in the Army Medical Department (for a minimum of 10 years) with selflessness, and have made a sustained contribution to the betterment of Army Medicine.” Dr. Gross was one of the inaugural ten mentors of the EAST Mentor Program, and continues to serve as a mentor for young trauma surgeons who are EAST members.

Dr. Gross has authored and co-authored numerous peer reviewed publications and book chapters on numerous trauma topics including emergency airway management, blunt hepatic trauma, transthoracic lung herniation in blunt trauma, morbid obesity in surgery and trauma, and public health-related issues in trauma. He is one of the original authors of several ACS educational offerings, including the Advanced Trauma Operative Management (ATOM) Course, the Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma (ASSET) Course, and the Disaster Management & Emergency Preparedness (DMEP) Course, and is national faculty for all three courses