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Mission adds New Trauma Surgeons09/28/2007
Mission Health & Hospitals has added two new physicians to its growing Trauma Program, Anne Conquest, MD, trauma surgeon, and Harold M. Frisch, MD, orthopedic trauma surgeon. Mission is Western North Carolina's designated Level II Trauma Center. It provides 24-7 staff, facilities and services to care for patients with life and limb threatening injuries, meeting standards of readiness, performance and ongoing educational activities set by the North Carolina Office of EMS and the American College of Surgeons.
Dr. Conquest is a board-certified general surgeon and surgical critical care intensivist. She received her Medical Degree from Louisiana State University, completed her residency in General Surgery at East Carolina University School of Medicine in Greenville, and a trauma surgery and critical care fellowship at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Conquest has taught courses including Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) for physicians, and Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS), which prepares non-intensivists for the first 24 hours of management of critically-ill patients.
She and her husband, Lance, have one son.
Dr. Frisch is a Board-certified Orthopedic Surgeon. He received his Medical Degree from Georgetown School of Medicine in Washington, DC. He trained at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, served as a Brigade Surgeon for the 3rd Infantry Division at Ft. Stewart, GA, and completed his residency in orthopedic surgery from Brooke Army Medical Center at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. Frisch served as Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at Bassett Army Community Hospital in Ft. Wainwright, Alaska, and received his fellowship in Orthopedic Traumatology at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, MD. Frisch was awarded the Walter Reed AMC Orthopedic Residency 'Brown Bag' Teaching Award in 2004-2005. Most recently, Dr. Frisch served as Director of Orthopedic Traumatology and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. Dr. Frisch has written and prepared numerous journal articles and presentations on topics including amputations, extremity war injuries, and wound management. He continues to do research in the treatment and outcomes of extremity war injuries.
Dr. Frisch and his wife, Susan, have four children.
Mission is one of the four highest volume Trauma Centers in North Carolina. Its volume has grown from 1,644 patients in the year 2000 to 3,200 patients in 2006, according to Mike Buechler, MD, Medical Director of Trauma Surgery Service at Mission.
'By adding trauma surgeons, we are simply trying to keep pace with the volume increase so we can assure continued delivery of the high quality patient care and regional education provided currently,' Buechler said. 'The Trauma Center at Mission Hospitals meets or exceeds all outcome metrics when benchmarked against the mean data of the other North Carolina Trauma Centers and the National Trauma Data Bank. We plan to keep it that way."
