Faculty Profiles
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Timothy G. Buchman, PhD, MD
– Professor of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
– Professor of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine
– Director, Emory Center for Critical Care, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University
Telephone: 404.712.2602
E-mail: tbuchma@emory.edu
Certification: General Surgery, Burn, Trauma, Surgical Critical Care
Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member: 2009
Dr. Buchman is the founding director of the Emory Center for Critical Care (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. The ECCC also houses Emory's training programs in critical care anesthesiology, surgical critical care, and pulmonary/medical critical care. Since Dr. Buchman's arrival, he has insured that every Emory ICU has a medical director and that it is staffed 24/7 with a nurse practitioner or physician assistant specializing in critical care. He is currently developing a standardized operational protocol for admitting critically ill or injured patients to Emory ICUs, is conducting interdisciplinary training sessions to improve communication and encourage team building among ICU clinicians, and is building a next-generation ICU on 11-South at Emory University Hospital Midtown that will become the standard design for all Emory ICUs.
To address the widespread closure of ICU facilities and families having to travel far from home seeking increasingly scarce ICU beds, Dr. Buchman spearheaded the formation of the North Georgia Critical Care Collaborative (NGCCC), which received a $10.7 million Health Care Innovations Award from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in May 2012. As the NGCCC, the ECCC will partner with Saint Joseph's Health System, Northeast Georgia Health System, Southern Regional Medical Center, and telemedicine provider Philips Healthcare to train nurse practitioners and physician assistants as critical care specialists and integrate telemedicine ICU services into community hospitals to allow remote support, advice, and supervision by experienced critical care doctors and nurses.
Dr. Buchman's research spans the bench-to-bedside continuum, including studies of physiological dynamics, predictive biology, and ICU end-of-life care. He is working towards ICU clinicians being able to predict and plan for the future of each patient.
Before joining Emory, Dr. Buchman served as professor of surgery and director of acute and critical care surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Prior to his 15 years on the faculty at Washington University, Dr. Buchman directed the surgical intensive care unit and the trauma center at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where he completed his surgical training.
Affiliations
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Emory University Hospital
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The Emory Clinic
Education
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MS in Organic Chemistry, 1973-1974, PhD in Virology, 1974-1978, University of Chicago
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MD, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Class of 1980
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General Surgery Residency, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1980-1985
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Fellowship in Traumatology/Critical Care, Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, 1986-1987
Honors and Awards
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Top Doctors, Atlanta Magazine, 2011
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Distinguished Investigator Award, American College of Critical Care Medicine, 2011
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Listed in "Best Doctors in America," 2006
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Listed in St. Louis' "Best Doctors," St. Louis Magazine, 2005-2008
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Senior Class Award, Teacher of the Year, Washington University School of Medicine, 1997
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Evarts A. Graham Resident Teaching Award, Washington University School of Medicine, 1995, 1996
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National Resident's Award First Prize, Contemporary Surgery, 1985
Current Organizational Memberships
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American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
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American College of Critical Care Medicine, Master of Critical Care Medicine
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American College of Surgeons, Fellow
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American Physiological Society
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American Surgical Association
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Association for Academic Surgery
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Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Charter Member
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Shock Society, President
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Society for Complexity in Acute Illness, Past President
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Society of Critical Care Medicine, Past President
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Surgical Biology Club II
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Surgical Infection Society
Current Editorships and Editorial Boards
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Deputy Editor, Journal of the American College of Surgeons
- Associate Editor, Shock
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Editorial Board, Critical Care Medicine
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Editorial Board, Journal of Critical Care
Clinical Interests
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Surgical critical care
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Trauma and burn care
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Sepsis
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Multiple organ failure
Research Interests
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Molecular mechanisms underlying the multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
- End-of-life care
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Genetics of sepsis
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Systems biology and its application to critical care and clinical medicine
