USA Health Adds Trauma Surgeon

USA Health recently hired Dr. Nathan Polite, trauma surgeon and assistant professor of surgery at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, for its Level-I trauma team at the Fanny Meisler Trauma Center at USA Health University Hospital. Polite spent three years as the trauma medical director at a Level-II trauma center near Atlanta, where he learned about the business and management of a trauma program and gained an appreciation for quality-improvement initiatives and community outreach. Polite attended medical school at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences in Kansas City, Missouri. He completed a residency at Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and a surgical critical care fellowship at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans.