Atrium Health’s Department of Surgery has named Dr. Addison May as chief of the Acute Care Surgery division. May brings over three decades of expertise in trauma and acute care surgery, previously serving as the Ingram chair of Surgical Services, director of Surgical Critical Care, and program director of the Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

May will oversee all aspects of trauma care, emergency general surgical care and surgical critical care.

“I look forward to continuing to expand our innovations by increasing access to care with a commitment to technology and research,” May said.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of Virginia, completing medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina in 1988. May completed his general surgery residency and a research fellowship at the University of Virginia Health Science Center in 1995. From there, he completed a two-year fellowship in surgical critical care and traumatology in 1997 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from Auburn University.