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    Jeffrey M. Tomlin, MD, MBA, FAANS, FACS

    Director of Neurotrauma
    Hartford Healthcare

    Dr. Jeffrey M. Tomlin, MD, MBA, has served in the US Navy on submarines and in the medical corps for nearly 34 years, holding leadership positions across the enterprise. He is currently the Director for Neurotrauma at Hartford Hospital

    He was recently stationed at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Virginia as the senior neurosurgeon, and he retired from the Navy in the spring of 2023. He was recruited as the inaugural Lawrence and Sharon Marshall Presidential Chair in Neurosurgery in the School of Medicine at UC San Diego before moving to Harford to become the Director for Neurotrauma at Hartford Hospital in the fall of 2025.

    Dr. Tomlin graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1989 and then completed training in nuclear propulsion to initially serve in the submarine force, completing tours on USS Annapolis (SSN-760) as a plankowner for its commissioning, with additional shore assignments in San Diego.

    Dr. Tomlin then attended medical school at Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD, graduating in 1999. After completing residency in neurosurgery at the University of Rochester in 2006, he served in Bethesda, Maryland and was deployed to the combat support hospital in Landstuhl, Germany as well as the NATO Multinational facility in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He has also completed his Executive MBA through the Naval Postgraduate School in September 2017 and the Harvard Medical School Surgical Leadership Program in March 2023.

    Dr. Tomlin is a fellow in both the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurosurgeons, the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Neurosurgical Society of America, as the President-Elect for 2026-27.

    His interests in clinical practice and research have been focused in neurotrauma care with special interests in cranial trauma, skull reconstruction and traumatic brain injury.

    His volunteer work has been as a member of the Board of Directors for the Vail Veterans Program, fortifying strategic partnerships to provide transformative healing for wounded service members through clinics since 2012. Prior to being on the Board, he was the lead instructor for their pilot program, Veterans Path to Success in partnership with the Human Performance Institute division of Johnson & Johnson.

    He has broadly served across organized neurosurgery with the American Association of Neurological Surgeons as an ad hoc appointee to the Board of Directors as the Military Committee Chair from 2019-2022 and was a member of the AANS Neurosurgeon Editorial Board. He has also served as a Guest Examiner with the American Board of Neurosurgery during the Oral Examination since 2019.

    Outside of academic neurosurgery, Dr. Tomlin was selected as a member of the Central Committee on Trauma for the American College of Surgeons and now serves on the American College of Surgeons Advisory Council for Neurosurgery.


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