UNC Health Care Tar Heel Trauma

Mid Carolina Trauma Regional Advisory Committee

2025

Evan Bradley, AAS, LP, FP-C

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Flight Paramedic
UNC Health

Evan started his career in Emergency Services in 2014, and has managed public safety planning, logistics, data management, and technical services for events with upwards of 60,000 attendees. Evan also co-founded an emergency services company in Texas providing EMS, Fire, Law Enforcement, K9, Vaccination, Laboratory Testing, Biohazard remediation, and Health & Safety Supervision. Evan is currently a rotor-wing Flight Paramedic in the Bell 429/EC135/EC145 platforms with extensive fixed-wing experience treating and transporting critical care patients throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Oklahoma, and ground experience in a suburban/rural 911 EMS agency outside of Austin, Texas.

Jared Gallaher, MD, MPH

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Assistant Professor of Surgery
UNC Department of Surgery

Jared Gallaher, MD, MPH, FACS is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of General and Acute Care Surgery at UNC in Chapel Hill, NC. He also has an adjunct appointment in the UNC Gilings School of Global Public Health and co-teaches a course there each spring on cost-effectiveness analysis. Dr. Gallaher graduated from Wake Forest School of Medicine in 2011 and completed his MPH at UNC Gilings School of Global Public Health in 2016. After finishing his General Surgery Residency at UNC in 2018, he completed his Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at Oregon Health Sciences University in 2019 and then returned to UNC to join the faculty in the Department of Surgery. His research focuses on global health in Malawi, especially in the fields of trauma, general surgery, and burn, and he serves as the co-director of the Malawi Surgical Initiative at UNC. He has also published clinical research on trauma and ECMO in the United States.

Ben Smith MD

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Medical Director
UNC Hospitals Emergency Management
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC

Dr. Smith is an emergency physician at UNC and the medical director for emergency management at UNC Hospitals as well as the medical advisor for the Mid-Carolina Healthcare Preparedness Coalition. He is board-certified in both Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services. He has been involved in field response to disasters both locally and across the state. He is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina and also serves as the Medical Director for Carolina Air Care and Air Life NC.