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Dr. Robert Sheridan graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and Alpha Omega Alpha from the Boston University 6-year medical program in 1979. He attended school with a military scholarship, completed training in general surgery at Walter Reed in 1986, and served as a general surgeon in Europe, Central America, and Colorado. He then trained at the Army Institute of Surgical Research (the Army Burn Unit) in San Antonio. After promotion to lieutenant colonel, service in Germany as the burn triage officer in support of Operation Desert Storm, and completion of his military obligation, he left the Institute of Surgical Research and joined the Massachusetts General Hospital Burn and Trauma Services and the Shriners Hospital for Children.
Dr. Sheridan is certified and recertified in surgery and in surgical critical care and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Chest Physicians, and American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. He is Chief of the Burn Surgery Service at the Shriners Hospital for Children and Co-Director of the Sumner Redstone Adult Burn Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is also active in trauma and surgical critical care. Dr. Sheridan has authored more than 200 publications and is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School.
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