Conference Speakers

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 three years. She joined the US 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 spending a year at the University of California San Francisco at San Francisco General Hospital.

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 has had the opportunity to work at every level of care after ‘Role 1’ in the deployed battlefield trauma system and has focused her surgical career to improving care of the combat casualty.