Jason L. Sperry, MD, MPH

  • Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine
  • Director, Acute Care Surgery Fellowship

Dr. Sperry is a Professor with a primary appointment in the Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and General Surgery and secondary appointments in the Department of Critical Care Medicine and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at the University of Pittsburgh.He is a physician trained in general surgery and surgical critical care with a masters’ degree in public health. Dr. Sperry's research focuses on the elucidation of the mechanisms that are responsible for sex-based outcome differences following injury, clinical outcomes following traumatic injury (primarily on massive transfusion), prehospital resuscitation, early correction of the coagulopathy that complicates injury, and the ability to predict a complicated post-injury course in the early prehospital and trauma bay setting. He is the principal investigator (PI) for the Linking Investigations Trauma and Emergency Services (LITES) network funded by the U.S. Department of Defense and PI of the PAMPer trial and STAAMP trials funded by the Prehospital Use of Plasma in Traumatic Hemorrhage (PUPTH) program and the Tranexamic Acid Clinical Research (TACR) program, under the direction of the Department of the Army.He is a co-investigator for the Trans-Agency Research Consortium for Trauma-Induced Coagulopathy (TACTIC) funded thru NHLBI, as well as multiple other NIH-funded grants. His overarching goal is to improve outcomes following traumatic injury.

Education & Training

  • BA, Case Western Reserve University
  • MD, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine
  • General Surgery Residency, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • MPH, Epidemiology/Biostatistics, University of Texas Houston, School of Public Health
  • Surgical Critical Care/Trauma Fellowship, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Representative Publications

Dr. Sperry's publications can be reviewed through PubMed.