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For more than 40 years, the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center has been a worldwide leader in trauma care. Shock Trauma is proud to stand as a cornerstone of Maryland’s exceptional Emergency Medical Services System – the first coordinated system in the country and a national model of excellence. Serving more than 8,000 critically ill and injured people each year, to date the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center has cared for more than 150,000 patients.  Approximately 96% of those patients survive their injuries.

Dr. Cowley is considered the father of trauma care and gave the world the concept of the Golden Hour. The Shock Trauma Center is the nation’s first and only integrated Trauma Hospital. We are dedicated to treating the severely injured and employ groundbreaking research and innovative medical procedures with one goal in mind — saving lives.

Our patients “are people who get up each day, leave their home for work or school and end up here at Shock Trauma. Our team is committed to giving each person a second chance.” (Dr. Thomas Scalea, MD, FACS, FCCM, Physician-in-Chief, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center)

Every patient we touch is part of a web of life — of hopes, fears, possibilities and dreams. For every heart that we keep beating, there are many others that we save from breaking.

If you are a trauma survivor or loved one of a trauma survivor and would like to join the Trauma Survivors Network at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, click here to join and be placed on our mailing list.