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Dr. Ronald Tompkins is the John Francis Burke Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School, the Chief of the Trauma, Burns & Surgical Critical Care Service of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and the Chief of Staff of the Shriners Hospitals for Children-Boston. He has served on scores of national committees and has received multiple honors including a fellowship from the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and an honorary M.A. from Harvard University, and he is a senior director of the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Tompkins has contributed more than 250 peer-reviewed articles to the medical literature. His research interests include the metabolic and inflammatory responses to injury and tissue engineering. Dr. Tompkins received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Tulane University, an M.D. degree from Tulane Medical School and a Sc.D. degree in Medical and Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). | 