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 William
Cioffi, MD
William Cioffi, MD, is the surgeon-in-chief at Rhode Island Hospital
and is an expert in burns and smoke inhalation injuries. Cioffi
served for seven years as chief of trauma surgery at Rhode Island
Hospital before assuming his present role in 2001. He came to Rhode
Island Hospital in 1994, after serving for 11 years as a surgeon
in the United States Army. He was chief of the burn study branch
at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (ISR) at Fort Sam
Houston, Texas. Recognized worldwide for its burn research program,
the ISR is the only dedicated burn and extremity trauma research
facility in the military. In February 2003, Cioffi led the efforts
to care for 63 burn victims brought to Rhode Island Hospital from
The Station nightclub fire - the worst fire in Rhode Island's history.
Cioffi graduated summa cum laude from the University of Vermont,
and subsequently from the University of Vermont Medical School.
For more than 20 years, he has been writing and lecturing nationally
and internationally on the care of burn and trauma patients.
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