Heather Audrey Vallier | |
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| Known for | Early appropriate care Orthopaedic trauma resuscitation guidelines First female OTA president |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Orthopaedic surgery |
| Institutions | MetroHealth Cleveland Clinic |
Heather A. Vallier is an American orthopaedic surgeon at Cleveland Clinic and was the 36th president of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association and the first ever female president. She is known for developing early appropriate care, the resuscitation criteria now used globally to determine when polytraumatized patients are optimized for orthopaedic trauma surgical intervention.