Conference Speakers

COL Jennifer Gurney is the Chief of the Joint Trauma System. Prior to assuming this position, she was a surgeon at the US Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center. She also works at Brook Army Medical Center as a trauma surgeon. COL Gurney was the first chair of Defense Committee on Trauma; she was also the Chair of the Committee on Surgical Combat Casualty Care for five years. COL Gurney joined the Army while at Boston University Medical School on a Health Professions Service Program Scholarship and did her surgical training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She did a Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at Stanford Hospital and spent a year at the University of California San Francisco at San Francisco General Hospital focusing on trauma care and trauma research.

She has deployed 8 times in support of military operations and has received a Legion of Merit with a ‘C’ (combat) device, three Bronze Star Medals, a Combat Action Badge, and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal for wartime service. She is Governor in the American College of Surgeons, was the Chair of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Miliary Committee from 2020 to 2024 and was President of Excelsior Surgical Society from 2023-2024. She has focused her surgical career in improving combat casualty care.