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Ruben Peralta, MD, FACS, FCCM, FCCP Deputy Trauma Medical Director, Professor and Director of Trauma, Emergency and Critical Care Fellowship Program, Senior Consultant in Surgery, Trauma, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Associate Director of Trauma Intensive Care Unit, Hamad General Hospital and Hamad Medical Corporation, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar

Ruben Peralta, MD, FACS, FCCM, FCCP is a member of the following medical societies: American Association of Blood Banks, American College of Healthcare Executives, American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association, Association for Academic Surgery, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Massachusetts Medical Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Society of Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeons

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Hassan Al-Thani, MD, FRCSC, FRCS(Ire) Senior Consultant in Surgery, Vascular, and Trauma Surgery, Head, Division of Vascular Surgery, Head, Trauma Surgery Section, Hamad General Hospital, Qatar

Hassan Al-Thani, MD, FRCSC, FRCS(Ire) is a member of the following medical societies: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

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Mary L Windle, PharmD Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape Drug Reference

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Kurt E Roberts, MD Associate Professor, Division of Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine; Chair, Department of Surgery, Saint Francis Hospital, Trinity Health of New England Medical Group

Kurt E Roberts, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Surgeons, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, Society of Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeons

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