Frank Mitchell, MD

Dr. Frank “Tres” Mitchell has a long history in the trauma community and is highly visible on the national stage. He has been a member and officer of the National ATLS Committee, a member of the Verification Review Committee of the ACS Committee on Trauma, Region Chief for the Committee on Trauma, and Chairman of the Oklahoma State Committee on Trauma. Dr. Mitchell has been a Verification Review Committee Site Reviewer since 1999 and is the Current Chair of the Committee on Trauma Verification Review Committee. Dr. Mitchell was a site surveyor for the first Trauma Verification Review Committee Site Visit outside the U.S. at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany. In his role as Chair of the Verification Review Committee, Dr. Mitchell has fostered a collaborative relationship with the Society of Trauma Nurses (STN), which has included support for the new “OPTIMAL” course as well as lecturing at our annual conference for the past three years.

He is the Medical Director, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at St. John Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has been a general surgeon, trauma surgeon, and director of both trauma and critical care in both Oklahoma and Kansas. Dr. Mitchell graduated with a BA from the University of Missouri, earned his MD from Tulane in New Orleans. He completed his General Surgery Residency at Parkland Memorial in Dallas. He is board certified in General Surgery and in Surgical Critical Care. Dr. Mitchell is a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences. He was also the Course Director for the annual Adult and Pediatric Trauma Symposium for multiple years.

Dr. Mitchell is active in many professional organizations, including the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, the Parkland Surgical Society, the Tulane Surgical Society, and the American Association for Surgery of Trauma, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, Western Trauma Association, and the Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.