~ RGVRC Affiliate Scholar ~

Christian D. Pulcini, MD, MEd, MPH is a pediatric emergency physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center and UVM Children’s Hospital and an assistant professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics at the University of Vermont, Larner College of Medicine. His current areas of research foci are pediatric firearm injury, emergency care of children with medical complexity, and mental health. His firearm research to date focuses on longitudinal outcomes, healthcare utilization, and costs of firearm injury. He is the current leader of the Children’s Hospital Association Research in Gun-Related Events (CHARGE) firearm research group, which is a national collaboration of interdisciplinary researchers dedicated to pediatric firearm related research.

He attended Tufts University School of Medicine followed by pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He holds an M.Ed. in secondary education from Loyola Marymount University (former Teach for American corps member), and an M.P.H. in maternal and child health from Boston University School of Public Health. He is passionate about the intersection of research, public policy, and advocacy for children.