Sherwood W. Barefoot Jr., M.D.
Medical Background
I am a retired board-certified surgeon who practiced general surgery and vascular surgery early in my career in private practice and later trauma and surgical critical care in the academic arena. I have coauthored articles in peer reviewed surgical journals, served on a panel discussing vascular surgery, and belonged to national surgical/trauma/critical care societies (Fellow of American College of Surgery, Peripheral Vascular Society, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine).
Dr. Sherwood W. Barefoot, Jr.
I held a clinical teaching appointment in the Department of Surgery, East Tennessee State University School of Medicine and a full-time academic appointment in the Department of Surgery at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. I was certified in Advanced Trauma Life Support as a provider, instructor, and course director.
After graduating from The George Washington University School of Medicine, I interned in Internal Medicine at the University of Florida and was a resident in General Surgery at The University of Florida and University of North Carolina. Thereafter I completed a fellowship in Vascular Surgery (U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego) and later a fellowship in Surgical Critical Care (SUNY, Stoney Brook, NY).
My detailed Curriculum Vita is available to review.
Practicing trauma/surgical critical care at a major academic/teaching university center with a Level I trauma program provided me with extensive experience in management of the injured. It required managing and correcting the impaired physiology of the various organ systems resulting from injury as well as surgically managing the damaged organs/structures.
My education, training, and experience qualify me to discuss the theories of disease, the diseases, the therapeutic modalities, and the management of firearm injuries in the Civil War. Additionally, I am able to identify the advancements in both the provision of care and the acquisition of knowledge resulting from the war. Finally, I am able to demonstrate how these contributions have improved health care today.