Scott Charles Brakenridge MD FACS

Summary

• Dr. Scott Brakenridge is a Seattle-based general surgeon at UW Harborview Medical Center with subspecialties in trauma surgery and surgical critical care. He graduated from Rush Medical College in 2004 and completed his surgical residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital in 2011. Afterward, he pursued fellowships in surgical critical care and vascular surgery at the University of Washington. Dr. Brakenridge has held academic positions at UW Medicine/Harborview Medical Center and the University of Florida College of Medicine, and is currently a Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington. His expertise includes trauma, surgical critical care, general surgery, acute care surgery, and ECMO. Dr. Brakenridge has authored various publications on the immune dynamics of trauma, sepsis and COVID-19, and he has been involved in clinical trials focused on trauma and surgical critical care. He is recognized with honors such as CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.