Philip Spinella

Dr. Spinella is a professor of pediatrics at Washington University in St Louis, and is the Director of the Critical Care Translational Research Program. Dr. Spinella served 15 years in the US Army and separated as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2007. He is a veteran of the Iraq War, where he received a Bronze Star and the Combat Medic Badge for providing care under fire. In collaboration with investigators at the US Army Institute of Surgical Research, his work in the area of the treatment of hemorrhagic shock received the US Army's Best Invention Award in 2008 for his role in the development of the concept of “damage control resuscitation”.

Dr. Spinella co-founded and is co-Chair of the Trauma Hemostasis and Oxygenation Research (THOR) Network, which is an international multidisciplinary network with a mission to improve outcomes for patients with traumatic hemorrhagic shock. Dr. Spinella is also a co-founder of the Pediatric Critical Care Blood Research Network (Blood Net). Blood Net is an international network with a mission to improve outcomes in critically ill children by supporting and performing research in transfusion medicine, hemostasis, and blood management. Dr. Spinella is a consultant to the US Army Blood Research Program at the US Army Institute of Surgical Research and the Norwegian Navy Blood Research Program. In 2015, Dr. Spinella was appointed by the Institute of Medicine as a member of the Committee on Military Trauma Care’s Learning Health System and its Translation to the Civilian Sector. Dr. Spinella is a well-established clinical trialist who has been awarded approximately 20 million dollars in funding from the US Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health. He has published over 195 manuscripts and 16 chapters in the area of both pediatric and adult critical care.