Terri DeWees is an accomplished healthcare executive and trauma program leader with extensive experience advancing system performance, quality, and verification readiness at a high-volume trauma center. As a Trauma Program Director, she has led a program experiencing significant growth, overseeing complex clinical, regulatory, and operational infrastructures while maintaining a steadfast focus on patient safety, quality outcomes, and continuous improvement.
Throughout her career, Terri has driven measurable improvements in performance improvement and patient safety (PIPS) programs, trauma registry operations, and multidisciplinary governance structures. She is recognized for aligning frontline clinical practice with national standards, translating regulatory requirements into sustainable operational models, and building high-functioning teams capable of meeting the demands of trauma center verification. Her work has included scaling registry and PI resources to support thousands of annual trauma activations, improving abstraction timeliness, strengthening loop closure, and embedding a Just Culture approach across trauma services.
Terri brings deep expertise in American College of Surgeons trauma standards, verification readiness, and strategic planning. She has led gap assessments, developed executive-level business cases for program investment, and partnered with senior leadership to align trauma quality initiatives with organizational safety, financial, and operational goals. Her leadership has contributed to improved compliance, enhanced survey readiness, and strengthened credibility with external reviewers.
In addition to operational leadership, Terri is committed to advancing trauma research and professional development. She has supported the development of trauma research infrastructure, multidisciplinary collaboration, and scholarly output, while mentoring trauma professionals and emerging leaders. Known for her direct, data-driven, and systems-focused leadership style, she is respected for balancing regulatory rigor with practical implementation and team engagement.
Terri continues to focus on building resilient trauma programs that deliver high-quality, equitable care while meeting the evolving demands of trauma systems, healthcare regulation, and organizational accountability.
Annemarie Glazer is an accomplished trauma and emergency nursing professional whose career spans more than four decades. Her professional passion is trauma and prehospital care, with expertise encompassing emergency nursing, critical care, trauma program leadership, performance improvement, research, education, and community outreach. Her extensive experience provides a unique perspective across the continuum of trauma care—from the prehospital environment and emergency department through critical care, rehabilitation, and the patient's return to the community.
Anne has held key leadership positions within trauma programs, including Trauma Program Manager, Performance Improvement Coordinator, and Outreach, Education, and Research Coordinator at a Level I Trauma Center. She has played a significant role in developing trauma performance-improvement initiatives, advancing evidence-based practice, supporting multidisciplinary collaboration, preparing trauma centers for verification, and translating trauma data into meaningful improvements in patient care. She has participated in five American College of Surgeons trauma center verification visits, demonstrating extensive knowledge of trauma program operations, quality management, and regulatory readiness.
Beyond hospital-based trauma care, Anne has dedicated more than four decades to the volunteer fire and EMS community and served as the first female line officer in her department. Her experience as an EMT-CC and emergency responder has reinforced her commitment to seamless collaboration between prehospital providers and hospital trauma teams. She is also a strong advocate for injury prevention and community preparedness, including Stop the Bleed education and bleeding-control initiatives for first responders and the public. Her expertise in hemorrhage control has included providing education to Long Island lifeguards following serious injury events.
As a national trauma educator, Anne has presented on trauma program leadership and management, performance improvement, trauma activations, hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation, environmental injuries, disaster response, succession planning, and the challenges of maintaining trauma programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her educational work emphasizes strong multidisciplinary teams, effective leadership, continuous learning, and sustainable trauma systems. She has also contributed to peer-reviewed research involving acute spinal cord injury and traumatic pancreatic injuries, as well as quality-improvement projects examining trauma demographics, pedestrian injuries, penetrating trauma, massive transfusion, trauma activation metrics, and innovative approaches to real-time performance-improvement data collection.
Anne is an active member of the Society of Trauma Nurses (STN) and the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) and has been involved with the American College of Surgeons (ACS) trauma community. Within STN, she has served on the Finance Committee, was the inaugural Chair of the Geriatric Committee, and contributes to the Trauma Performance Improvement Special Interest Group (PI SIG). She has also served as a reviewer for the Journal of Trauma Nursing and has contributed to national professional meetings through presentations, posters, education, mentoring, and committee service.
Anne's career is distinguished by her commitment to making trauma care better for patients, families, providers, and communities. She brings together clinical nursing expertise, prehospital experience, trauma program leadership, business and organizational education, performance improvement, research, and community outreach to strengthen high-performing trauma systems. Whether leading a trauma team, analyzing performance data, preparing a trauma center for verification, educating clinicians and prehospital providers, or teaching the public how to control life-threatening bleeding, Anne remains dedicated to improving readiness, strengthening teamwork, advancing trauma nursing, and ensuring that every injured patient receives the highest quality care possible.
