A. Britton Christmas received his B.A. degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in 1996 and his M.D. degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 2000. He completed his internship, residency, and surgical critical care fellowship in the Department of Surgery at the University of Louisville from 2000-2006 where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He joined the faculty of The F. H. “Sammy” Ross, Jr. Trauma Center at Carolinas Medical Center (Atrium Health) in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2006 where he currently serves as an attending surgeon for trauma, critical care, and acute care surgery, Clinical Professor of Surgery for the Wake Forest School of Medicine, and Medical Director and Chief of Trauma at one of the nation’s busiest trauma centers. Dr. Christmas also obtained his Master of Business Administration degree from the East Carolina University College of Business in 2021. He has authored/co-authored more than 80 peer reviewed publications, 8 book chapters, and nearly 200 presented abstracts. Society memberships include the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the ACS Committee on Trauma, the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), the Pediatric Trauma Society, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) and the Southern Surgical Association. He is a former recipient of the EAST Leadership Development Scholarship, the recipient of the inaugural EAST Foundation Brandeis Scholarship in Health Policy and Management, and the recipient of the 2016 ACS Young Fellows Leadership and Advocacy Summit Scholarship. He is a Past-President of EAST and currently serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for the Trauma Centers Association of America (TCAA) as Secretary, as a Central Member of the ACS Committee on Trauma, as Vice Chair for the North Carolina ACS Committee on Trauma, and as President-Elect of the Hiram C. Polk Surgical Society. Current national committee appointments include the TCAA Finance and Education Committees, the AAST Healthcare Economics Committee, and the EAST Development Committee.
