THOR Network Foundation Board of Directors

Dr. Elon Glassberg is an operational medicine leader with over 25 years of experience driving large-scale medical transformation. As the former Surgeon General of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), he led the strategic design and implementation of national military healthcare reform, focusing on outcome-driven clinical care in high-uncertainty environments.

Dr. Glassberg’s career is defined by the practical application of medical innovation. He successfully pioneered the integration of advanced resuscitation protocols and pre-hospital blood product delivery, translating complex research into protocols that significantly reduced casualty fatality rates. His work bridges the gap between theoretical medical advancement and fielded, life-saving clinical solutions.

A dedicated researcher and educator, Dr. Glassberg serves as a Professor of Surgery at Bar-Ilan University and Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). He has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications covering trauma systems, operational medicine, and medical leadership.

Currently, he leads the ADaPT (Advanced Damage Control Resuscitation and Prehospital Transfusion) project on behalf of the THOR Network Foundation, an initiative focused on next-generation medical education on advanced resuscitation for civilian EMS.
ADaPT, a collaboration with the North American Rescue training division, utilizes real-world data and high-fidelity training to build scalable, resilient medical systems.

Dr. Glassberg brings a unique combination of executive strategic experience, academic depth, and frontline operational expertise to the advancement of global emergency medical care.

Dr. Ward is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan where he also serves as the Executive Director of the Max Harry Weil Institute for Critical Care Research and Innovation. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine.

Dr. Ward’s research and clinical expertise is centered on combat casualty care and the resuscitation and monitoring of the critically ill and injured patient. He is a serial innovator and entrepreneur and an elected Fellow in the National Academy of Inventors. He is the recipient of the university innovator of the year award from both Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Michigan as well as the DoD Advanced Technologies Applications in Combat Casualty Care Award for Excellence. He is also the recipient of both the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Excellence Awards.

Dr. Ward serves in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corp as a Lieutenant Colonel assigned to Forward Resuscitation Surgical Detachments with combat deployments to Afghanistan and Syria. He has assisted in developing and reviewing US Joint Trauma System Clinical Practice Guidelines for damage control resuscitation and assisted in the development of the 75th Ranger Regiment ROLO program. He has collaborated with the Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center in developing civilian clinical training sites responsible for training over 2000 Special Operation Combat Medics. His discoveries and patents in hemostasis have also been critical and instrumental in the development of the military’s standard issue hemostatic bandage Combat Gauze. In 2024 he was the recipient of the THOR Viking Sword award. Dr. Ward also was instrumental in developing THOR’s ADaPT training program.

Professor Reade is Director of the Greater Brisbane Clinical School of the University of Queensland (UQ) and until 2021 with the rank of Brigadier was Director General of the Health Reserve of the Australian Army. He continues to lead an expanding research program focussed on military trauma medicine based at UQ, covering blood and fluid resuscitation clinical trials in trauma, trauma systems design, and traumatic brain injury. Since 2011 he has been the Professor of Military Medicine and Surgery at the ADF’s Joint Health Command, and from 2019-2021 he was President of the Australian and New Zealand Trauma Society. He is an intensive care physician at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and in the Australian Army.