Robert L. Sheridan, M.D., is the interim chief of staff and medical director of the burn service at Shriners Hospitals for Children — Boston. He graduated from Boston University’s six-year medical program summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha. Dr. Sheridan attended school with a military scholarship, completed 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 Unit) in San Antonio and subsequently served in Germany as triage officer at the Landstuhl trauma center in support of Operation Desert Storm. Upon completion of his active duty military obligation, he left the Institute of Surgical Research and transitioned into the Army Reserve, where assignments included humanitarian surgical missions and deployments with forward surgical teams in Afghanistan. Dr. Sheridan also joined the Massachusetts General Hospital Burn and Trauma Services and Shriners Hospitals for Children — Boston following his active military duty.

Dr. Sheridan has several active clinical research projects with funding from Shriners Hospitals for Children, foundation and industry, and has published 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 past president of the American Burn Association and Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School.

Credentials:

• Medical Degree, Boston University School of Medicine
• Certified in Surgery
• Certified in Surgical Critical Care
• Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics
• Fellow, American College of Surgeons
• Fellow, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
• Colonel (Ret.), U.S. Army Reserve
• President, American Burn Association 2009-2010

Postdoctoral training:

• Intern in Surgery, Madigan Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
• Resident in Surgery, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
• Fellow, Burns and Surgical Critical Care, Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, Texas