Dr. Kelly Hall DVM, DACVECC

Dr. Hall’s passion is to improve trauma care through collaborative clinical and translational research and education. She is an Associate Professor at Colorado State University and is the Executive Director of the ACVECC Veterinary Committee on Trauma (VetCOT) – a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional effort to improve trauma outcomes. Since 2015, Dr. Hall has organized the annual ACVECC VetCOT Trauma and Critical Care Conference which is held in conjunction with the Mattox Trauma, Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery conference in Las Vegas. Her current research efforts include multi-center translational clinical trials and co-leading the Translational Trauma Research Alliance (TeTRA-MED): an international, multidisciplinary team including pre-clinical researchers and human and veterinary clinicians with a focus on a One Health approach to improving trauma care.

Dr. Hall was a faculty member at the University of Minnesota for 14 years where she also earned her DVM (1998), Emergency and Critical Care board certification (2008) and Masters in Clinical Research (2013). More recently, Dr. Hall took a non-linear path and spent 6 years teaching and coaching at the high school level which led to a better understand of teaching pedagogy and the components necessary for effective teamwork. This experience is helping inform the CSU led effort to develop a Veterinary Trauma Stabilization course in partnership with the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma leadership, ACVECC and dozens of colleagues.

Dr. Hall is grateful to work with others that have similar interests and recognizes that each effort to improve trauma care only makes progress because of the significant contributions of many.