Hasan B. Alam, MD is the Loyal and Edith Davis Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Surgeon-in-Chief at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He is an Acute Care Surgeon who is certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, who has been a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the University of Michigan before coming to Chicago. With over 20 years as a physician-scientist, Dr. Alam has gained international recognition as a trauma and general surgeon. His clinical interests revolve around the areas of trauma, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care. Dr. Alam has established himself as an exceptional investigator. His research interests are in the areas of novel resuscitation strategies, hemorrhage control, modulation of cell protective strategies, consequences of septic shock, and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Alam is currently involved in multiple clinical trials, several of which he is the principal investigator. In addition, his research is funded by large federal grants including the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Defense. Dr. Alam has also earned numerous awards for excellence in teaching and research and holds numerous patents as an inventor.