United States of America - Baltimore, MD
University of Maryland Medical Center R A Cowley Shock Trauma Center - Trauma Attending
Sharon Henry, M.D., F.A.C.S., the Anne Scalea professor of trauma at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, is a trauma surgeon at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.
Dr. Henry came to the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in1997, where she is currently an attending trauma surgeon/intensivist and director of the Center's Division of Wound Healing and Metabolism.
Dr. Henry received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981 at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She then returned to Maryland to attend medical school and received her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1985. Her residency training was at State University of New York's Health Science Center at Brooklyn where she began her academic career after completing a critical care fellowship at the University of Minnesota.
After joining the faculty at the R A Cowley shock trauma center, in addition to her duties and interests in injury care she was named the chief of the division of wound healing and metabolism service. Dr. Henry has been active in the Maryland Committee on Trauma serving as chair from 2004-2010. She served on the ACS central COT and was chair of the ATLS subcommittee 2013-2018. She is currently the ATLS global program chair. She has been on the board of managers of the AAST since 2017 and was a part of the senior visiting surgeon program in 2009. She is also a member of the federal Trauma critical care team and serves on the Disaster committee of the AAST.