Dr. Ali Salim

Ali Salim, MD, FACS, is a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Chief of the Division of Trauma, Burns, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery at the Brigham and Woman’s Hospital in Boston, MA. He leads a team of trauma specialist in providing expert, multidisciplinary care for thousands of trauma and burn patients each year. Additionally, he is the Co-Medical Director of the Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 

Dr. Salim is both a Traumatologist and a Surgical Intensivist.  He is a clinically active trauma, general, and critical care surgeon and devotes his time with equal intensity to research, surgical education and clinical service. His clinical interests focus on the care of the acutely ill trauma, emergency surgery and intensive care unit patient. Dr. Salim's clinical research is focused on the care and outcomes of trauma patients, traumatic brain injury, improving the physiology of organ donors and improving the rate of organ donation. He has authored or co-authored over 350 peer-reviewed publications. Most recently his research has focused on racial disparities in organ donation, and on identifying and quantifying the long-term physical, emotional, and psychosocial effects following moderate to severe traumatic injury.