Dr. Buchman is the founding director of the Emory Critical Care Center (ECCC), which is integrating ICUs throughout the Emory Healthcare system and bringing together clinicians and investigators from diverse disciplines to conduct research to define best clinical practices and inform public health policy.
Before joining Emory, Dr. Buchman was the Edison Professor of Surgery, Anesthesiology and Medicine at Washington University in Saint Louis, where he founded and directed the Section of Acute and Critical Care Surgery and Barnes-Jewish Hospital's nationally verified level 1 trauma center. Prior to his 15 years in Saint Louis, Dr. Buchman was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins Medical Institution in Baltimore, where he built the SICU service and founded the Adult Trauma Service. He completed the Halsted Residency in General Surgery at Hopkins and his trauma/critical care training at Baltimore's Shock Trauma Center.
