Dr. Alicia J. Mangram is the Senior Trauma Critical Care Director of a private multi-specialty group, Valley Surgical Clinics and Acute Care Surgical Specialists. This group is composed of physicians who specialize in general surgery, trauma, advanced laparoscopy, robotics and medical/surgical critical care.
She is the Senior Medical Director of Trauma Acute Care at HonorHealth John C. Lincoln Medical Center in Phoenix. Dr. Mangram is the appointed Program Director for the HonorHealth John C. Lincoln General Surgery Residency. She completed her general surgery residency and fellowship in surgical critical care at University of Texas Health Sciences Center (Hermann Hospital) in Houston.
Dr. Mangram has devoted herself to improving trauma care through advocacy, surgical and critical care research, education and community service. She has a special interest in trauma patients over the age of 60, and has created G-60 Trauma.
She is a member of multiple prestigious medical societies including; American Association of Surgical Trauma (AAST), Arizona Trauma Association (ATA), Western Trauma Association (WTA), and Southwest Surgical Congress (SWSC). She has recently been nominated to the ACS Committee on Trauma (term beginning in 2018) and chaired the new Committee on Trauma Geriatric Trauma Guidelines.
Dr. Mangram has published numerous scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, and is most recognized worldwide for her landmark work at CDC: Guidelines for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection (1999), and recently for her work in geriatric trauma (G60).
She has taken on the new challenge of creating an acute care robotic emergency general surgery curriculum. Dr. Mangram began performing robotic surgery in 2018. She has continued to grow her robotic skills and truly believes that robotic surgery is the future. All of Dr. Mangram’s residents graduate with robotic certification.