Matthew Wiepking

Matthew Wiepking is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology (Clinician Educator) at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. He completed his MD at Boston University School of Medicine (1998), residency in General Surgery at Madigan Army Medical Center (2003), and Trauma/Surgical Critical Care fellowship at LAC+USC Medical Center (2005). A retired Army Colonel with five combat deployments, he served leadership roles including Forward Surgical Team Commander and Chief Medical Officer for Iraq/Syria operations.

Research focuses on:

• Trauma resuscitation methodologies
• Hemodynamic monitoring innovations
• Military-civilian trauma system integration

His extensive publication record examines emergency surgical management patterns, with recent work exploring surgical shift structures, military medical ethics, and anticoagulation protocols in vascular trauma. Clinical practice emphasizes acute care surgery, advanced laparoscopy, robotics, and bariatric surgery.