Chris Buresh, MD, MPH, DTM&H

Chris Buresh is a pediatrician and emergency medicine physician who has also trained in public health and infectious disease. His focus has been around the care of marginalized populations who struggle with housing, chaotic drug use, and vulnerability to communicable disease. He works at Harborview Medical Center and Seattle Children’s Hospital emergency departments as an associate professor and helps to direct the emergency medicine residency for the University of Washington. He has been involved in harm reduction and advocacy since 2015 and has helped to create protocols for the treatment of opioid use disorder in adults and children. He hopes to teach future generations of emergency physicians that being a good physician means being involved far beyond the walls of the emergency department.