Douglas T. Hutchinson

Chris Rich, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University Of Utah School Of Medicine. Dr. Rich graduated from the University of Utah with a B.A. in German and received his medical degree from the University Of Utah School Of Medicine. He completed his adult psychiatric residency at UC San Diego and his Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Utah .Dr. Rich currently works as a child psychiatrist at Primary Children’s Hospital Center for Counseling. As a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, Dr. Rich’s clinical interests include childhood mood and anxiety disorders, ADHD treatment, early onset schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders.

Dr. Thomas Higgins holds the Richard L. Stimson Presidential Endowed Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery and is a Professor and Chief of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the University of Utah. His medical degree was completed at Brown University School of Medicine. His orthopaedic training was at Yale University, with a post-graduate fellowship in orthopaedic trauma at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. He has been on the faculty at University of Utah since 2000. Dr. Higgins’ clinical expertise is in the treatment of complex intra-articular injuries, pelvic and acetabular trauma, and musculoskeletal care in the setting of polytrauma. His elective practice focuses on the deformity correction, malunions, and nonunions. The author of over one hundred peer-reviewed publications and multiple book chapters, Dr. Higgins’ main area of research interest clinically has been on plateau fractures. He has been primary investigator or co-investigator on four OTA grants, two AO grants, and an OREF grant. His most recent research has focused on the genetics of trauma, the use of opiate analgesics in the trauma setting, and the role of inflammatory mediators in the formation of post-traumatic osteoarthritis. He was recently awarded a $2.5 million dollar DOD grant for a prospective randomized clinical trial on the role of NSAIDs in fracture healing. In the educational sphere, Dr. Higgins is recognized nationally for his research and presentations of tibial plateau fractures. He has been active with orthopaedic education with AO North America, chairing three courses, and teaching at over thirty. Previously a member of the OTA Education Committee, he has also chaired multiple resident courses for the OTA. He has received the annual teaching award three times at the University of Utah. He has previously served on the Orthopaedic Trauma Association Board of Directors, and currently serves as the OTA Second President-elect. Dr. Higgins was the OTA Annual Program Chair in 2013 and 2014. In 2009, Dr. Higgins served as the OTA/AAOS Landstuhl Visiting Scholar in Germany and has been visiting professor at multiple universities. In 2015 he and his family spent four months serving at Kijabe Hospital in Kenya, and he served as a visiting surgeon with Health Volunteers Overseas at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital in Thimphu, Bhutan for the month of January 2020. He has also served twice at the Haiti Adventist Hospital in Carrefour, Haiti. He maintains an interest in continuing to serve in global medicine. When he is not working, he enjoys skiing, biking, and traveling with his wife and kids.