David Spain

David A. Spain, MD, FACS, the current president of the AAST, he is also the David L. Gregg, MD Professor and Chief of Acute Care Surgery at Stanford University and the General Surgery Program Director. 

Dr. Spain grew up in Michigan and obtained a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from the Honors College at Michigan State University. He attended Wayne State University Medical School, followed by general surgery residency at UMNDJ-Robert Wood Johnson. After that he completed a 2-year fellowship at the University of Louisville in Trauma/Burns/Critical Care Surgery. He has been at Stanford since 2001 where he has an active surgical practice in elective and acute care surgery. His research interests include trauma/surgical critical care, assessment of trauma system performance and PTSD following critical illness and injury.