Bryan Cotton, M.D.

Bryan A. Cotton, M.D., MPH, is the John B. Holmes Distinguished Professor in Clinical Sciences and a Professor in the Department of Surgery at McGovern Medical School (UT-Houston) and the Red Duke Trauma Institute at Memorial Hermann Hospital. His clinical specialties include trauma surgery and surgical critical care.

Over the last decade, Dr. Cotton’s research has centered on resuscitation strategies for hemorrhagic shock, the development and refinement of massive transfusion protocols, and the early prediction of patients likely to require large-volume blood product transfusions. To that end, he has held funding from the National Institutes of Health, the State of Texas Emerging Technologies Fund, Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative, and the Department of Defense. Even when not serving as principal investigator, he has been recognized by others as a key contributor and have subsequently been awarded site-principal investigator for numerous studies in the field of resuscitation and hemostasis.

In the last five years alone, he has published over 100 manuscripts specifically related to hemorrhagic shock resuscitation, massive transfusion protocolization and early identification of the acute coagulopathy of trauma. He has delivered invited lectures throughout North America on these topics and has been an invited speaker internationally as well, with lectures at major Surgical, Trauma, and Coagulation conferences in Turkey, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Canada, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the UK.

Dr. Cotton joined the Board of Trustees for Gulf Coast Blood in 2021.