MichaelSCharlesMDFACS

Trauma Surgery & Surgical Critical Care

Trauma Medical Director

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Dr. Michael Charles is a trauma surgeon in Tulsa, OK. He received his medical degree from St. George's University School of Medicine (1985) and has been in practice 32 years. Dr Charles' completed a Trauma /Surgical Critical Care fellowship in St Louis at Washington Univ school of Medicine and the Barnes/ Jewish hospital. He specializes in traumatic surgery & surgical critical care is boarded in general surgery, trauma surgery and surgical critical care and remains in active clinical practice.
Dr Charles is currently the Trauma Medical Director of the Ascension/ St John Medical Center in Tulsa OK, one of two A.C.S./C.O.T. nationally verified trauma centers in Oklahoma. He is on the adjunct faculty of the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, Tulsa and is the state chairman for the Oklahoma Committee on Trauma

Washington University/B-JH/SLCH ConsortiumFellowship, Surgical Critical Care, 2010 - 2011
New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist HospitalResidency, Surgery, 1985 - 1991
St. George's University School of MedicineClass of 1985

Chairman: Oklahoma Committee on Trauma American College of Surgeons
Trauma Medical Director Acute Care Surgery/ Trauma Surgery
Outstanding Volunteer Faculty of the Year The University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, Tulsa, 2019
Emergency Medicine Teaching Award OU School of Community Medicine, Dept of Emergency Medicine, 2013
Aesculapian Award for Clinical Excellence in Teaching 2013
"Crimson Apple" for Teaching Excellence OU School of Medicine, 2012-2013
Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons
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PubMed

Appendicitis after colonoscopy-a case report, literature review, and synopsis of the pitfalls in diagnosis.
Austin Milton, Bradley Cox, Michael Charles, Zhamak Khorgami
Journal of Surgical Case Reports. 2024-05-01
17 citations
Ten-Year Trends in Traumatic Cardiac Injury and Outcomes: A Trauma Registry Analysis.
Hoang-Vu Tran, Michael S. Charles, Robert C. Garrett, Paul W. Kempe, C. Anthony Howard
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2020-09-01
18 citations
Ten-year trends in traumatic injury mechanisms and outcomes: A trauma registry analysis.
Zhamak Khorgami, William J. Fleischer, Yuen-Jing A. Chen, Nasir Mushtaq, Michael S. Charles
American Journal of Surgery. 2018-04-01

Books/Book Chapters

Neuro/ Trauma/ Surgical Internsive Care Manua
Chapter: entire manual
Page 1 - 152Micharl S Charles, M.D., F.A.C.S.Editors: Casie Brim, APRN-CNP.St John, TulsaEdition 4th,2022
Trauma Resident Manual, Neurotrauma/Surgery Intensive Care Unit
Michael S. Charles, MDEdition 3rd,2014

Lectures