Col. (Ret.) Mark W. Bowyer, MD, FACS, DMCC, FRCS (Glasg)

Retiring after 22 years of active-duty military service as a trauma and combat surgeon, Dr. Bowyer remains the Ben Eiseman Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. In this role, he is responsible for the training of current and future military physicians.

As a faculty member for Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), Definitive Surgical Trauma Care, Definitive Surgical Trauma Skills, Emergency War Surgery, Advanced Trauma Operative Management, and founder of the Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposures in Trauma (ASSET) courses, Dr. Bowyer is an international force in trauma education. He has taught more than 250 ASSET courses in 25 countries and more than 300 ATLS courses. Featured in the videos used in the ATLS course, Dr. Bowyer has become the “face of trauma training” around the world.

His active practice of trauma surgery in busy civilian trauma centers and experiences as “Trauma Czar” in Iraq, provide him with credible, real-life experiences that he enthusiastically brings to the classroom. As an acknowledged expert in the fields of trauma and medical simulation, he is in great demand as a speaker having presented in many national and international forums. Dr. Bowyer has published widely on a diverse range of critical care, trauma, and simulation topics.