Dr. Brandon Bruns is the Section Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern and the Trauma Medical Director at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas. Prior to joining the University of Texas, Dr. Bruns spent 7-years as faculty at the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore and 2 years as the Trauma Medical Director at the University of Maryland Prince George’s Hospital Center.
Dr. Bruns’ primary clinical interests are in the areas of trauma and emergency general surgery. He is an active member of both the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) and The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST). He is a previous member of EAST’s EAST4All and is a current member of the AAST’s DEI Committee.
Personally, Dr. Bruns is married and has twin daughters. His family resides in Dallas, Texas.
Selected publications from PubMed
Beyond capacity: an EAST multicenter mixed-methods study exploring surgeon perceptions on patient ratios in acute care surgery.
Wilson DJ, Gellings JA, Coleman J, Mukherjee K, Bonne S, Boltz M, Hartwell JL, Bruns B, Kurle J, Hassan M, Todd SR, Maqbool B, Morse BC, Cripps MW, Patel M, Margulies DR, Lilienstein JT, Aryan N, Zarzaur BL, Bayouth CV, Porter J, Staudenmayer K, Mederos DR, Fasanya C, Leneweaver K, Jacobson LE, Farrell MS, Norwood S, Cull JD, Hoth J, Kamine T, Prabhakaran K, Rakitin I, Englehart MS, Fusco-Ruiz T, Blondeau B, Adams CA Jr, McKenzie K, Holleman G, Liggett MR, Cunningham K, DeMoya M, Murphy PB, ACS Staffing Authorship Group
Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2025;10(4):e001937 doi: 10.1136/tsaco-2025-001937.
Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery.
Knowlton LM, Zakrison T, Kao LS, McCrum ML, Agarwal S Jr, Bruns B, Joseph KA, Berry C
Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2023;8(1):e001098 doi: 10.1136/tsaco-2023-001098.
Power of mentorship for civilian and military acute care surgeons: identifying and leveraging opportunities for longitudinal professional development.
Knowlton LM, Butler WJ, Dumas RP, Bankhead BK, Meizoso JP, Bruns B, Van Gent JM, Kaafarani HMA, Martin MJ, Namias N, Stein DM, Tadlock MD, Martin RS, Staudenmayer KL, Gurney JM
Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2023;8(1):e001049 doi: 10.1136/tsaco-2022-001049.
Equity on the frontlines of trauma surgery: An #EAST4ALL roundtable.
Tung L, Long AM, Bonne S, Tseng ES, Bruns B, Joseph B, Williams BH, Stein D, Freischlag JA, Goulet N, Khandelwal C, Kiselak E, Hoofnagle M, Gelbard R, Rattan R, Joseph D, Bernard A, Zakrison TL, Equity, Quality, and Inclusion in Trauma Surgery Practice Ad Hoc Task Force of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2021 Jan 1;90(1):129-136 doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002965.
Perceptions of Equity and Inclusion in Acute Care Surgery: From the #EAST4ALL Survey.
Tseng ES, Zakrison TL, Williams B, Bernard AC, Martin MJ, Zebib L, Soklaridis S, Kaafarani HM, Zarzaur BL, Crandall M, Seamon MJ, Winfield RD, Bruns B, and the Equity, Quality, and Inclusion in Trauma Surgery Practice Ad Hoc Task Force of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Ann Surg. 2020 Dec;272(6):906-910 doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000004435.
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