Trauma Surgery
MD, FACS, Professor;Division Chief, Division of Trauma, Burns, Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of Washington. Surgeon-in-Chief, Harborview Medical Center. Medical Director for Trauma Programs, American College of Surgeons, USA
Dr. Bulger is Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Trauma, Burns, and Critical Care at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA and the Surgeon-in-Chief at Harborview Medical Center, a Level l trauma center for both adults and children. 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 serves on 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 the long-term outcomes of injured patients.
Selected publications from PubMed
Establishing a Consensus-Based Definition of Air Medical Transport Need for Rural Patients After Injury: Results from a Delphi Survey.
Brown JB, Cash RE, Lu L, Weiss L, Beal J, Kravetsky M, O'Brien M, Sperry J, Bledsoe BE, Shatz DV, Gestring ML, Cathers A, Tanaka K, Jurkovich GJ, Yorkgitis BK, Clemency B, Latimer A, Lawner B, Lyng J, Nelson B, Bulger EM, Stilley J, Wubben R, Delbridge TR, Cohen J, George NH, Innes J, Swanson D, Bank EA, Martin-Gill C, Guyette FX
Prehosp Emerg Care. 2026;30(6):907-916 doi: 10.1080/10903127.2026.2632975.
Application of Evidence into Practice in Trauma: The Purpose to Practice (P2P) Approach to Consensus Generation.
Guido JM, Krause M, Frankel B, Hillmer E, Knight AW, Grider K, Moreno AN, LaGrone LN, 2025 Design for Implementation (DFI) Authorship Group, Bixby P, Bonne S, Bulger EM, Cain JG, Chastek J, Coleman JR, Costantini TW, Cozzi N, Davis KA, Dicker RA, Dorlac WC, Van Eaton E, Eriksson E, Evans S, Foster SM, Goodloe JM, Haut ER, Jarman M, Johnson A, Kotagal M, Krause M, Kubasiak JC, Lang K, Leigh AB, Mangat HS, Marvel DM, Michetti CP, Moran V, Moreno AN, Oczkowski SJ, Person MA, Price MA, Punch LJ, Racey M, Ray BL, Redmond D, Reinhart LK, Rhodes H, Rhodes B, Rubiano AM, Sanchez S, Sarani B, Shelton E, Spain DA, Staudenmayer K, Stein DM, Valenzuela J, Villarreal CL, Wells JL, Wong GZ, Young LS
medRxiv. 2025 Aug 24 pii: 2025.08.20.25334072. doi: 10.1101/2025.08.20.25334072.
Disparities in Misclassification of Race and Ethnicity in Electronic Medical Records Among Patients with Traumatic Injury.
Conrick KM, Mills B, Schreuder AB, Wardak W, Vil CS, Dotolo D, Bulger EM, Arbabi S, Vavilala MS, Moore M, Rowhani-Rahbar A
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2024 Dec;11(6):3289-3293 doi: 10.1007/s40615-023-01783-3.
Improving post-injury follow-up survey response: incorporating automated modalities.
Scheuer H, Conrick KM, Mills B, Solano E, Arbabi S, Bulger EM, Dotolo D, Vil CS, Vavilala MS, Rowhani-Rahbar A, Moore M
Inj Epidemiol. 2024 Sep 5;11(1):46 doi: 10.1186/s40621-024-00531-3.
Identifying Common Data Elements to Achieve Injury-related Health Equity Across the Lifespan: A Consensus-Driven Approach.
Conrick KM, Mills B, Fuentes M, Graves JM, St Vil C, Vavilala MS, Bulger EM, Arbabi S, Rowhani-Rahbar A, Moore M
Health Equity. 2024;8(1):249-253 doi: 10.1089/heq.2023.0044.
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