Eileen Bulger
MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery, University of Washington, Chief of Trauma & Acting Surgeon-in-Chief, Harborview Medical Center, USA
Professor of Surgery, University of Washington, Chief of Trauma & Acting Surgeon-in-Chief, Harborview Medical Center, USA
Dr. Bulger is Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA and the Chief of Trauma and Acting Surgeon-in-Chief at Harborview Medical Center. She is the Medical Director for Trauma Programs at the American College of Surgeons and the President-elect for the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Dr. Bulger has an active research program. She has served as co-Principal Investigator for trauma with the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium and as Principal Investigator of the Seattle Crash Injury Research and Engineering center. She is currently leading the development of a National Trauma Research Action plan for the United States and is the Chair of the Board for the Coalition for National Trauma Research. Her research interests include resuscitation strategies for hemorrhagic shock, trauma system development, the prehospital triage and management of injured patients, the biomechanics of injury after motor vehicle crashes, modulation of the inflammatory response after injury, and necrotizing soft tissue infections. Her research program has generated over 300 publications. |