Jeffrey D. Kerby, MD, PhD, FACS is the Brigham Family Endowed Professor and Director of the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital. Dr. Kerby received both his undergraduate degree and medical degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in 1989. He completed his surgical residency in general surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1999, along with a postdoctoral research fellowship in 1996. Following residency, Dr. Kerby served in the United States Air Force as an active duty surgeon until 2003. Since his return to UAB in 2003, he has served as a clinically active trauma and acute care surgeon. Dr. Kerby served as the principal investigator for the Alabama Resuscitation Center of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium network, an NIH funded multicenter trials network of traumatic injury and cardiac arrest, from 2005 through 2015.  Dr. Kerby has established military-civilian partnerships between UAB and the U.S. Air Force, developing trauma-training programs for Air Force Special Operations Pararescue personnel beginning in 2006. In addition, his division has hosted Air Force Special Operations Surgical Teams (SOST) on a permanent basis since 2010, with nearly 30 active duty Air Force currently personnel embedded at UAB as a result of this program. Dr. Kerby has been a member of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT) since 2016 and served as Chair of the ACS COT from 2022 - 2026. He is currently the immediate past Chair of the ACS COT and serves as Medical Director for Trauma Education at the ACS COT.