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Timothy G. Buchman, PhD, MD, FACS, FCCM
Harry Edison Professor, Surgery
Division of General Surgery
Chief; Burn, Trauma, Surgical Critical
Care Section
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
Speaker Topic: Genetic Testing in the Acute
Care Environment: Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects
In addition to the positions mentioned above, Dr. Buchman is Professor
of Anesthesiology and of Medicine at Washington University School
of Medicine in St. Louis. He is also Director of the Level I Trauma
Center, co-Director of the Surgery/Burn/Trauma ICU, and Attending
Surgeon at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
Prior to moving to St. Louis, Dr. Buchman was Associate Professor
of Surgery, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, and Director
of the Training Program in Surgical Critical Care at The Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he also held a joint
appointment in Molecular Biology and Genetics.
The Associate Editor of Shock, Dr. Buchman has also been a member
of the following editorial boards: Critical
Care Medicine, International Journal of Surgical Investigation,
The Journal of Surgical Research,
and The Journal of the American College of
Surgeons. He has published
approximately 150 journal articles, abstracts, books, and chapters.
Currently Dr. Buchman has three National Institutes of Health grants.
An active member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, Dr.
Buchman is the immediate Past President as well as a member of
the Strategic Planning Committee. Previously he chaired the following
SCCM organizational bodies: Research Division, Project IMPACT Advisory
Committee, and the Undergraduate Education Subcommittee of the
Educational Affairs Division. He has served the American College
of Surgeons as a member of the Surgical Research and Education
Committee and Course Director for the Young Surgical Investigators'
Conference.
Additionally, Dr. Buchman is a member of the following professional
societies: American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, American
Surgical Association, Association for Academic Surgery, Eastern
Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Shock Society, Society of
University Surgeons, and Surgical Infection Society.
Washington University has honored Dr. Buchman with the Senior
Class Award for Teacher of the Year and the Evarts A. Graham Resident
Teaching Award. He is the recipient of the Dr. Harold Lamport Research
Award Citation and the First Prize Resident's Award from Contemporary
Surgery. While at Hopkins, Dr. Buchman was presented with the Anthony
L. Imbembo Teaching Award and the Baltimore Academy Teaching Award.
He received the John Van Prohaska Award and the Merck Award from
the University of Chicago.
Dr. Buchman completed his fellowship in Traumatology and Critical
Care at the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Service Systems
and his residency and internship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in
Baltimore. He received a medical degree, a doctorate in virology,
a master's degree in organic chemistry, and a bachelor's degree in
chemistry from the University of Chicago. |