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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.