Dr. Long is a graduate of the University of Maryland Medical School, where he did a fellowship in trauma and surgical critical care Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. In 1983, he came to Oregon to become Emanuel Hospital’s first Trauma Medical Director. Throughout his 35 years in that position, Long transformed trauma care on the West Coast, saving countless lives in the process. Emanuel’s trauma program became the second Level 1 Trauma Center in the Pacific Northwest verified by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. Long formed coalitions with police, first responders, EMTs, nurses, and medical and surgical specialists to create the first statewide trauma system in the American West. His bibliography includes over 140 publications, including the development of the Injury Severity Score with Susan Baker, RN, PhD, at Johns Hopkins Univ., which has been used for over 30 years internationally as a benchmark measuring the severity of injury. 

Lifeline’s color commentator/host, Will Ohman, attended Pepperdine University, graduated from Arizona State University and had a 13-year Major League Baseball career as a relief pitcher spanning from 2000 to 2012. He knows the tension and stress of competing at the highest levels of sport which is somewhat (and very loosely) analogous to desperate medical crises when a life is on the line. Will has the unique ability to synthesize complicated topics and make them user-friendly for the average listener. He has no medical training whatsoever, but his medical experiences do include 5 arm surgeries, 3 sprained ankles, 2 broken bones and a recent paper cut. He is a husband and a father to twins; has traveled the world extensively; and is an accomplished eater of food.