Associate Professor
Uniformed Services University
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Dr. Burmeister is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). Dr. Burmeister serves as an independent research physiologist specializing in burn resuscitation and other traumatic injuries. His training and early professional career have all involved studies that examine the body’s natural response to trauma, in an attempt to understand and recapitulate successful healing responses. His primary scientific interests are translational in nature, and include the role of fluid resuscitation in organ (dys)function and inflammation, thermal and radiation burn wound healing and diagnosis, polytrauma and combined injury, and the role of the microbiome on the pathophysiology of trauma.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.