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Dr. Robert Sheridan

Rob Sheridan graduated from Boston University’s six-year medical program Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha. Dr. Sheridan has served as director of the pediatric burn program at Shriners for over 25 years. He attended medical school with a military scholarship, served two years as an aviation medical officer in Germany, completed residency training in general surgery at Walter Reed, and served as a general surgeon in Honduras, Germany, and Colorado. He then trained in burns, trauma, and critical care at the Army Institute of Surgical Research (the Army Burn and Trauma Unit) in San Antonio and subsequently served in Germany as surgeon and triage officer at the Landstuhl trauma center in support of Operation Desert Storm. Upon completion of his active-duty scholarship and training obligations, he joined the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Burn and Trauma Services and Shriners Children’s-Boston (SCB) where he has been active in burns, trauma, and surgical critical care. He transitioned into the Army Reserve where assignments have included humanitarian surgical missions, disaster experience in Indonesia and Haiti, and two deployments with Forward Surgical Teams in Afghanistan. He has completed several clinical research projects with funding from Shriners Hospitals, foundation, and industry and has published 2 books, and over 250 papers, book chapters, editorials, and online resources. Dr. Sheridan was a finalist for the Schwartz Center Compassionate Caregiver Award and Medal of Honor Foundation’s Citizen Service Award and received the American Academy of Chest Physician’s Governors Community Service Award. He is certified in surgery and in surgical critical care and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the American Burn Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. In his career at MGH and SCB, administrative leadership roles have included clinical director of the MGH trauma program, co-director of the MGH burn program, and assistant and interim chief of staff at Shriners Children’s-Boston. Dr. Sheridan currently serves as director of the burn service and chief of staff at the Shriners Children’s-Boston and attending surgeon in the MGH burn unit.  He is past president of the American Burn Association, a Colonel in the US Army reserve, and a Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School.

At the NMETC EMS Summit, Dr. Sheridan will be presenting on pediatric burns.⁠

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