Summer 2024 JSOM Podcast

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Our JSOM Podcast team of Alex Merkle and Josh Randles will be reviewing the following articles for our Summer podcast: Advancing Combat Casualty Care Statistics and Other Battlefield Care Metrics by Jud C. Janak, Russ S. Kotwal, Jeffrey T. Howard, Jennifer M. Gurney, Brian J. Eastridge, John B. Holcomb, Stacy S. Shackelford, Robert A. De Lorenzo, Ian J. Stewart, and Edward L. Mazuchowsk (https://www.jsomonline.org/FeatureArticle/2024211Janak.pdf) Evaluation of a Rebreathing System for use with Portable Mechanical Ventilators by Thomas Blakeman, Maia Smith, and Richard Branson (https://www.jsomonline.org/FeatureArticle/2024234Blakeman.pdf) The Effect of Critical Task Auto-failure Criteria on Medical Evaluation Methods in the Pararescue Schoolhouse by Ian Richardson, Michael Lauria, Brian Gravano, Jeffrey Swenson, and Stephen Rush (https://www.jsomonline.org/FeatureArticle/2024267Richardson.pdf) JSOM Guest Author Advancing Combat Casualty Care Statistics and Other Battlefield Care Metrics author Jud C. Janak will be interviewed by our podcaster team about the article. Jud C. Janak, PhD, has over 10 years of experience as an epidemiologist and applied biostatistician in the private sector, public sector, and academia. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed studies on topics related to traumatic injury, accelerated aging, chronic disease, and real-world pharmacoepidemiology. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the U.S. Army Institute for Surgical Research where he focused on traumatic brain and genitourinary injuries. He was Director of Epidemiology and Biostatistics for the Department of Defense Joint Trauma System from 2017 to 2020. He also served as the lead epidemiologist for the Military Trauma Preventable Death Working Group. He was an Associate Director of Epidemiology at CorEvitas from 2020 to 2023. His current responsibilities focus on leveraging real-world patient and clinical registry data to study the safety and effectiveness of FDA-approved therapies as a Principal Epidemiologist in the Real-World Data Research and Analytics group at Merative. Dr. Janak received his master’s and doctoral degrees in Epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health. We Would Love Your Feedback Please email [e-mail]. Follow us on Social Media @jsomonline or on our website https://www.jsomonline.org