Boston U. School of Medicine
Christopher D. Barrett M.D., Instructor in Surgery and Fellow in Surgical Critical Care, Boston University Medical Center.
I am a physician-scientist working in the fields of coagulation, fibrinolysis and inflammatory perturbations after traumatic injury and major surgery, where my interest in this topic is linked to my experiences in combat in Iraq as a U.S. Army Airborne Infantryman. I completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at MIT in the laboratory of Michael B. Yaffe MD, PhD, FACS investigating relationships between traumatic coagulopathy and inflammation in human and murine models as part of the NIH/DoD Trans-Agency Consortium for Trauma Induced Coagulopathy (TACTIC) and as the principle investigator on two additional grants (F32 from NHLBI, G30/LRP from NIGMS). I am now an Instructor in Surgery and Fellow in Surgical Critical Care at Boston University School of Medicine where I work clinically, and am in the process of transitioning to a new position as a trauma surgeon-scientist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center to continue my research investigating key molecular mechanisms that drive the profound systemic inflammatory response that leads to exacerbated hyper- and hypocoagulopathies, end-organ failure, immunosuppression, and death after major traumatic injury.
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
8:50 AM – 9:10 AM