Christian D. Pulcini, MD, MEd, MPH is a pediatric emergency physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center and UVM Children’s Hospital, and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. He attended Tufts University School of Medicine, where he graduated with Research Honors and was inducted into both the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and Honos Civicus Society (recognizing high academic achievement, leadership, and civic engagement). This was 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 American corps member) and an M.P.H. in Maternal and Child Health from Boston University School of Public Health. His current areas of research foci are emergency care of children with medical complexity, firearm injury, and acute mental health.