Scott C. Brakenridge MD, FACS

Dr. Scott C. Brakenridge, MD, FACS, earned his medical degree from Rush Medical College and completed general surgery residency training at UT Southwestern/Parkland Memorial Hospital in 2012. After completing a Trauma/Surgical Critical Care fellowship at the University of Washington’s Harborview Medical Center, Dr. Brakenridge was a faculty member in the Department of Surgery at the University of Florida from 2013-2021, where he was an active Trauma/Acute care surgeon and surgical intensivist, Investigator and Core Lead for the NIH funded UF Sepsis and Critical Illness Research Center. In 2021, he returned to UW as an Associate Professor of Surgery and surgical scientist in the Division of Trauma, Burn & Critical Care Surgery at Harborview Medical Center.

Dr. Brakenridge’s research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 2014. The current focus of Dr. Brakenridge's research program is the characterization of different immune endotypes after severe traumatic injury and surgical sepsis, specifically those that characterize the persistent inflammation, immunosuppression, and catabolism syndrome (PICS), drive chronic critical illness, and lead to poor long-term clinical outcomes after critical illness. Dr. Brakenridge is also interested in the development and translation of precision medicine approaches to identify endotypes among individual critically ill patients, in order to facilitate the successful implementation of mechanistically targeted therapies.