Each year the Society of Trauma Nurses presents the Trauma Leadership Award. The award recognizes an individual, in the medical or non-medical field, who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in trauma through practice, research, publication, education, patient advocacy, injury prevention, trauma system development or legislative involvement during his or her career at a local, state or national level.

The society is proud to announce the 2012 recipient is Kathryn T Von Rueden, MS, RN, ACNS-BC, FCCM, associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and Interim Specialty Director of the Trauma/Critical Care/ED Advanced Practice Nurse graduate program.

In addition to her roles at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Ms. Von Rueden, is in a joint appointment as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center.  Her professional career includes leadership roles in hospitals and the biotechnical industry. Her clinical research most recently has focused on secondary traumatic stress in nurses and delirium in trauma patients.  She is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine, is a recognized expert in areas related to care of critically ill and injured patients and clinical outcome management, and has been invited to lecture internationally and nationally on a variety of subjects related to trauma, critical care, and performance improvement.

Please join us on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Savannah in Savannah, Georgia during the President’s Address and Annual Meeting at 7:30am where Ms. Von Rueden will be recognized for her many contributions to trauma nursing and trauma care.