The Mid Carolina Trauma Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) plays a lead role regarding the coordination and communication for trauma and disaster programs within the Mid Carolina region of North Carolina. This region includes the following counties: Alamance, Chatham, Cumberland, Hoke, Orange, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Sampson, Vance, Wake, and Warren. Administratively, the RAC is led by the University of North Carolina Hospitals, the regional Level I Trauma Center and by working collaboratively with the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, the RAC possesses extraordinary resources. Those assets include one of the nation’s leading research centers for trauma, burn care, injury prevention, bioterrorism and infectious disease, and disaster preparedness.