Panamerican Trauma Society (PTS) / Sociedad Panamericana de Trauma (SPT)

The Panamerican Trauma Society (PTS) was officially founded in Bogota in 1986. Previously, Dr. Armando Baqueiro had the idea to create a society in which the main objective was to improve the management of trauma patients among Latin American countries. Dr. Baqueiro, along with Dr. Alejandro Grife, Garcia Morales "El Max," Gomez Palacio, Carlos Moreno, and Aurelio Rodriguez, set up the structure of the organization and the idea became a reality—The Panamerican Trauma Society (PTS) was born in 1987. The first officers and members met during the Annual Congress of the Federation of Latin American Surgical Societies (FELAC) and at that time Dr. Aurelio Rodriguez was appointed as president and Ricardo Sonneborn, vice-president.

Mission:
The Panamerican Trauma Society seeks to encourage the exchange of knowledge and information among physicians, nurses, pre-hospital providers, and other health care personnel who take care of injured patients in North, Central, and South America.