National Trauma Institute

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National Trauma Awareness Month

To reduce injury, death and disability by:

    Elevating trauma on the national research agenda

       Increasing scientific knowledge related to trauma,
         burns and injury prevention

       Changing clinical practice throughout the state, nation
        and world

To stop unnecessary suffering from trauma through prevention, education and research, and ultimately decrease rates of death and disability in trauma patients. NTI will be recognized as the premiere grant-making institution for translational trauma research.

IMPROVING
THE ODDS

Survivors Must Include More than The Lucky

Sharon Smith, the executive director of NTI, has avoided the site of her traumatic injury for nearly 40 years.

Although she drives past the La Grange County Fairgrounds every so often, she cannot bring herself to pull in and peer over the 60-foot high, boulder-strewn cliff she tumbled down as a teenager in 1970.

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