Christian D. Pulcini, MD, MEd, MPH

Dr. Pulcini is a pediatric emergency physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center and UVM Children’s Hospital, as well as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. He attended Tufts University School of Medicine followed by pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. He then completed pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He also holds an M.Ed. in secondary education from Loyola Marymount University (former Teach for America corps member) and an M.P.H. in maternal and child health from Boston University School of Public Health. His current areas of research focus are emergency care of children with medical complexity, firearm injury, and acute mental health. He is currently funded by an NIH K23 Career Development Award entitled “Optimization and Implementation Trial of a User-Centered Emergency Care Planning Tool for Infants with Medical Complexity” of which he aims to become an expert in implementation science and clinical trials while focusing his research and transition to research independence on improving emergency care of this particularly vulnerable population. Beyond the focus of the K23 award, he also has a passion in closing both the evidence-to-policy and evidence-to-practice gap as it pertains to firearm injuries and acute mental health for children in the US.