Ali Salim, MD
BWH Distinguished Chair in Surgery
Associate Chair of Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery
Division Chief, Trauma, Burn and Surgical Critical Care
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Salim is a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and the chief of the Division of Trauma, Burn and Surgical Critical Care at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital. He leads a team of trauma specialists, providing expert, multidisciplinary care for thousands of trauma and burn patients each year.
Prior to joining the Brigham, Dr. Salim was an attending physician, program director of the General Surgery Residency Educational Program and director of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Duke University, a master’s degree from Columbia University and his medical degree from the Howard University College of Medicine. Dr. Salim completed his general surgery internship and residency, as well as his fellowship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.
Dr. Salim is both a traumatologist and a surgical intensivist at the Brigham. He is a clinically active trauma, general and critical care surgeon and devotes his time with equal intensity to research, surgical education and clinical service. His clinical interests focus on the care of the acutely ill trauma, emergency surgery and intensive care unit patient. Dr. Salim’s clinical research is focused on the care and outcomes of trauma patients, traumatic brain injury, improving the physiology of organ donors and improving the rate of organ donation. He has authored or co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications. His most recent research has focused on the long-term patient reported outcomes following trauma.