Carl Schulman, MD, PhD, MSPH, earned his medical degree from the University of South Florida College of Medicine in 1995. He completed his training in general surgery and received additional training in trauma and surgical critical care at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. Certified by the American Board of Surgery in general surgery and surgical critical care, his prior experience includes a two-year NIH Research Training Fellowship. He also completed his Master’s of Science in Public Health and PhD in Epidemiology to enhance his research focusing on the epidemiology of burns and trauma. He is the Director of the William Lehman Injury Research Center at the Ryder Trauma Center. He has been awarded grants from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Department of Defense and the CDC among others. His clinical practice includes Burns and Surgical Critical Care at the Ryder Trauma Center. He has authored over 150 publications and is a reviewer for numerous journals.

Dr. Schulman has been PI or co-PI on numerous studies examining the effects of treatments or outcomes on trauma and burn patients with collaborations across varied medical and scientific disciplines including dermatology, nephrology, public health, and biochemistry and molecular biology. He was elected to and currently serves on the Burn Science Advisory Panel of the American Burn Association.

Dr. Schulman has also been involved in motor vehicle crash-related research for his entire career and is currently the PI for the BMW Crash Research Program at the University of Miami and previously served on the Board of Directors of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. Dr. Schulman holds the Eunice Bernhard Endowed Chair in Burns and currently serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Research Operations for the Miller School of Medicine.