Roselle E. Crombie, MD

Roselle Crombie, MD/MPH, FACS, FABA, a board-certified surgeon, specializes in general surgery, burn/wound surgery and surgical critical care. Dr. Crombie’s particular passions are burn and trauma reconstruction, general surgery, incisional hernia, lumbar hernia, recurrent hernia, spigelian hernia, umbilical hernia and ventral hernia. She prides herself on constantly pushing for change and awareness to improve care delivery. Education of the next generation of physicians and surgeons has remained an imperative part of her career and has been highly involved as a faculty member in the Yale School of Medicine’s department of surgery over the course of her career. Dr. Crombie enjoys giving a variety of lectures to further the fields of her expertise. Her research publications have previously involved basic science of cytokines in various inflammatory processes, including IL-8/VEGF, TNF-alpha, TGF-Beta and IL-1 in addition to more clinical based burn and wound topics.

Dr. Crombie earned her medical and graduate degrees from the University of Connecticut. She completed her general surgery training at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Mass. Her post-graduate fellowships were in burn surgery and surgical critical care at the Yale University School of Medicine, where she currently remains on faculty. Nationally, she served as the 32nd President of the North American Burn Society and presently serves as an ethics committee member at Bridgeport Hospital and formerly for the American Burn Association (ABA). Dr. Crombie is a Fellow of the ABA and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and is involved in several national women’s surgeon group societies. She is currently the vice president program chair and executive board member for the Connecticut Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (CTACS) and ABA.

Dr. Crombie is actively serving as the Physician Special Interest Group (SIG) Chair for the ABA and has served in the Military Burn Research Program’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (MBRP-CDMRP). She’s serving as a reviewer for the Journal of Burn Care and Research and Journal of Burns and Wounds and is a skin substitutes consensus committee member for the Journal of Wound Care. Her CV includes numerous publications and book chapters. In her free time, she enjoys family time on the water and skiing with her husband and three children. She is board certified in general surgery and surgical critical care by the American Board of Surgery (ABS).