Eric Goralnick, MD, MS

Eric Goralnick, MD, MS is focused on improving patient care in two main areas: ensuring equitable access to healthcare for our most vulnerable patients and supporting collaborations between the civilian and military medical communities.  He has served in various operational roles at the departmental, hospital, and system levels within Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mass General Brigham.

He has co-authored over 85 peer-reviewed articles, and his team’s work has been featured in many international, national, and local media outlets. His team is currently focused on the Save a Life initiative which has developed 35 YouTube educational videos viewed more than 2,000,000 times in over 500 Ukrainian cities and was featured at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in 2022.    

He is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the faculty lead for the Harvard Medical School Civilian Military Collaborative , the emergency medicine lead for the Brigham and Women’s Center For Surgery and Public Health, the Civilian Military Advisor for the Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation, an Ariadne Labs Associate Faculty Member and a US Navy veteran. He is also currently the Chair of the Disaster Medicine Section at the American College of Emergency Physicians.

He graduated from the United States Naval Academy, Tel Aviv University School of Medicine, Yale Emergency Medicine Residency, and the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.  He recently completed the George W. Bush Institute Stand To Veteran Scholar program and is fiercely committed to supporting veterans and military families.