Our mission is to reduce the number of injuries and deaths due to injuries, 
through prevention, improved trauma care, and improved rehabilitation.

Trauma Foundation
SF General Hospital
Bldg 1 Room 300
San Francisco, CA 94110

Phone:415/821-8209
Fax: 415/821-8202
email: tf@traumaf.org

Board of Directors
Andrew McGuire
Executive Director

Maggie Escobedo-Steele
Deirdre H. Henderson
Gary Mason
Cher McIntyre
Paul O'Rourke, MD
William Schecter,MD

Founder
Donald D. Trunkey

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Making Change Happen

The Trauma Foundation, founded in 1981 at San Francisco General Hospital, was established, and continues to be directed, by Andrew McGuire who was severely burned as a seven-year-old child. Andrew began his injury prevention work in 1974 in Boston, Massachusetts, where he developed and directed Action Against Burns, the first survivor advocacy organization for burn survivors and their families. This organization was instrumental in the establishment of a federal fire resistance standard that helped eliminate pajama-related burn injuries to children.

Upon returning to California in 1975, Andrew established the Burn Council. Dr. Donald Trunkey, then Director of the Burn Center at San Francisco General Hospital, offered support for this new organization by inviting the Burn Council to open offices at San Francisco General Hospital. Among other activities, the Burn Council set up self-help groups for patients and families in the six burn centers in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

In 1981, the Burn Council expanded its mission to include the prevention of all traumatic injuries, including those related to burns, domestic violence, firearms, transportation, the workplace, youth violence, and all injuries involving excess alcohol use. It was renamed the Trauma Foundation.

Today, staff of the Trauma Foundation continue to work with injury survivors who wish to bring meaning to their painful experiences by becoming survivor advocates. The breadth of activities includes data collection and research to support injury prevention policies; policy development and education; and information dissemination.  With its focus on collaboration, the Trauma Foundation has become an internationally recognized leader in injury prevention and an "incubator" of projects and organizations committed to the prevention of traumatic injuries. Advocates, policy makers, community leaders, educators, the media, and many others have come to rely on the Trauma Foundation's expertise and experience in the field of injury prevention policy.

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