New Faculty
New Faculty
It is with great pleasure we announce and welcome our new faculty members. Each new faculty member introduces an added level of experience, quality, and service to the Department of Surgery.
2026 New Faculty
Kathleen Gibson, MD
Professor
Division of Vascular Surgery
Kathleen Gibson, MD, joined as a Professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery at the University of Washington in May 2026, and practices at UW Medical Center–Northwest. Originally from Bozeman, Montana, she earned her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering and her medical degree at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine. She completed all of her surgical training at the UW, including her General Surgery residency and Vascular Surgery Fellowship, spending a research year with Dr. Eugene Strandness, former Chief and Professor of Vascular Surgery at the UW. After training, she spent 25 years in private practice on the Eastside, where she served in several leadership roles, including Medical Director of Overlake Vascular Surgery and Director of the Diagnostic Vascular Laboratory. Kathleen’s clinical practice has been diverse, with a recent focus on venous and lymphatic disease, including superficial and deep venous disorders, pelvic venous disease, venous compression syndromes, and minimally invasive venous interventions. She has also been actively involved in clinical research and physician education throughout her career and is looking forward to helping expand venous and lymphatic education and training opportunities within the UW system. She has served in leadership positions in several professional societies, and was formerly President of the American Vein and Lymphatic Society. She currently serves on the Board of the VIVA Foundation. Kathleen is excited to return to the institution where she trained, and is glad to be back as a Husky, working with the next generation of vascular surgeons. Outside of work, Kathleen enjoys traveling, time with family, bird watching, skiing, and spending time outdoors. She also enjoys dogs and exploring the Pacific Northwest.
Ahmed Hassan, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Pediatric General Surgery
Ahmed Hassan, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington Medical Center and Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Hassan specializes in adult and pediatric hepatobiliary and abdominal organ transplant surgery. He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. Dr. Hassan earned his medical degree from Assiut University in Egypt. He completed his general surgery residency training at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and the University of Louisville in Kentucky. He subsequently completed fellowship training in Abdominal Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. His clinical and research interests include adult and pediatric liver surgery and transplantation, living donor liver transplantation, organ preservation, and machine perfusion, with particular expertise in normothermic machine perfusion (NMP)—a technology helping redefine the boundaries of transplantable organs and improving outcomes for critically ill patients.
Mary Austin, MD, MPH
Professor
Division of Pediatric General Surgery
Mary Austin, MD, MPH, joined Seattle Children’s Hospital on August 25, 2025, as Professor and Surgical Director of the Fetal Program. Prior to her arrival, Dr. Austin was a professor in both the Department of Pediatric Surgery at McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) and in Surgical Oncology and Pediatrics at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. She completed her surgery residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. During residency, Dr. Austin also received a Master’s in Public Health from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She completed her Surgical Critical Care and Pediatric Surgery training at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in July 2010. Dr. Austin is board certified in Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, and Pediatric Surgery.
She has a special interest in pediatric surgical oncology, surgical critical care including ECMO, fetal surgery, and clinical research. She is interested in identifying geographic and socioeconomic barriers to care for pediatric cancer patients and working to dissolve these barriers. More specifically, her research focuses on developing methods that incorporate technology to improve access to care for children with complex medical problems.
In her free time, she enjoys participating in sports and outdoor activities with her family. Dr. Austin looks forward to enjoying all the outdoor activities the Pacific Northwest has to offer.
Lily Chang, MD, FACS
Professor
Division of General Surgery
Lily Chang, MD, FACS, is a general surgeon who joined the University of Washington (UW) Division of General Surgery in September 2025 as an emergency general surgeon. A graduate of UC Berkeley for her undergraduate studies and Tufts University for medical school, Dr. Chang completed both her general surgery residency, as well as her minimally invasive surgery fellowship, at the UW.
With over 18 years of experience in general and bariatric surgery at Virginia Mason Medical Center, Dr. Chang is now returning back to her alma mater at UW to further contribute to the field. She brings over two decades of expertise in patient care and is dedicated to expanding emergency general surgery services in our region. She is a past President of the Seattle Surgical Society and has enjoyed collaborating closely with surgeons throughout the area to strengthen our community.
Dr. Chang is also passionate about the future of surgical education. She had the honor of serving as the Program Director for the General Surgery Residency Program at Virginia Mason for 10 years and intends to continue mentoring the next generation of surgeons at UW. Additionally, she recently returned from her annual surgical mission to Guatemala, an experience that has been both personally and professionally enriching. Outside of her clinical and educational endeavors, Dr. Chang enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, skiing, and striving to hit her daily goal of 10,000 steps.
Brian Coakley, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Pediatric General Surgery
Brian A. Coakley, MD, FAAP, FACS, Dipl ABOM, is a pediatric general surgeon who joined Seattle Children’s Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery in April 2025. Dr. Coakley attended college at Harvard University and medical school at Oregon Health and Science University.
He completed his residency training at Mount Sinai Hospital—New York City, his pediatric surgery fellowship at British Columbia Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, and a pediatric surgical oncology fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Dr. Coakley spent eight years in practice at The Mount Sinai Health System (NYC) before moving to Seattle.
Having grown up in Portland, the move to Seattle represents a return to the Pacific Northwest for him. His primary clinical interests are performing bariatric surgery for adolescents battling obesity and obesity–related co–morbidities as well as the treatment of solid tumors in children. In addition to studying the effects of bariatric surgery on children, his research also focuses on the interplay between political partisanship and public policy with multiple barometers of childhood health.
Outside of work, Dr. Coakley is a true “foodie” who also enjoys NBA basketball (GO TRAILBLAZERS!) and college football (GO DUCKS!). But most importantly, he enjoys spending time with his wife and their three children.
Krystle Collins, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of General Surgery
Dr. Krystle Collins is a breast surgical oncologist who joined the Department of Surgery September 1, 2025. She received a degree in psychological anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles, which inspired her to pursue a career in medicine to help patients, caregivers, and practitioners navigate complex interpersonal decision making. She completed a postbaccalaureate at California State University, Fullerton before matriculating to Columbia University for medical school. She completed her general surgery residency at Oregon Health & Science University. She pursued additional fellowships in immuno-oncology at Providence Cancer Institute and breast surgical oncology at the University of Pennsylvania.
She places a strong emphasis on bringing high quality care into the community and understanding strategies to mitigate a myriad of competing factors impacting receipt of guideline-concordant care. She looks forward to pursuing projects aimed at survivorship and restoration of “self.” She brings an enthusiasm for education and cannot wait to train the next generation of physicians.
When she is not working, you can find her doing just about anything outdoors, from off-roading, to trail running, skiing, or backpacking. She also enjoys teaching wilderness medicine to empower everyone to get outside. She is excited to return to the Pacific Northwest and create wilderness programming for breast cancer patients and experience all the great state of Washington has to offer.
Paul Comish, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Division of Trauma, Burn & Critical Care Surgery
Paul Comish, MD, attended Texas Tech University where he earned his undergraduate degrees in Biochemistry and a second degree in Spanish before enrolling into a Master of Public Health program at the University of Texas at Houston, where he specialized in epidemiology. Following his Master’s program, he enrolled at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson for medical school. Dr. Comish then completed his general surgery training at UT Southwestern/Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he became interested specifically in burn surgery. He further completed a research fellowship at UT Southwestern, where he investigated the inflammatory response seen in burn injury. Following surgical residency, he completed a burn and reconstruction fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by an additional Critical Care Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Comish has special interests in burn resuscitation, scar reconstruction, and management of acute burn injury. Outside of work, Dr. Comish enjoys backpacking, golfing, running, and traveling.
Christopher Crowe, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Plastic Surgery
Christopher Crowe, MD, is a hand and upper extremity surgeon with a particular interest in complex nerve injury, tetraplegia, and spasticity reconstruction. Originally from California, he earned his undergraduate degree in pharmacology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery residency at the University of Washington, followed by a Hand and Microvascular Surgery fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Crowe pursued additional specialized training in peripheral nerve surgery in Florianópolis, Brazil, and completed a pediatric hand and upper limb fellowship at the Shriners Hospital for Children. His research focuses on clinical outcomes in reconstructive hand surgery, nerve injury, and the surgical management of upper motor neuron syndrome. Outside of the hospital, he enjoys exploring the Pacific Northwest with his wife, cooking, and collecting vinyl.
Mohamed Eldeiry, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Mohamed Eldeiry, MD, is a cardiac surgeon joining the University of Washington (UW) Medical Center-Montlake campus from Colorado. With a passion for both medicine and engineering, he is excited to bring robotic cardiac surgery to the Pacific Northwest, where he will help develop and expand this innovative program. Dr. Eldeiry began his medical career at the University of Colorado Medical School, then completed a general surgery residency and a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Colorado. His interest in robotic surgery grew after working with several renowned providers, which led him to complete a robotic cardiac surgery fellowship at Ascension St. Thomas in Nashville, Tennessee.
Outside of work, Dr. Eldeiry enjoys spending time with his family, hiking, building Legos with his son, and caring for their turtle, Simisima. He is excited to start this new chapter at UW and contribute to advancing cardiac care in the region.
Mariam Hantouli, MD
Research Assistant Professor
Division of Research
Surgical Outcomes Research Center (SORCE)
Mariam Hantouli, MD, joined the Department of Surgery as a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Research. Dr. Hantouli completed her research fellowship at the University of Washington’s Surgical Outcomes Research Center (SORCE) in the Department of Surgery, and prior to her current appointment, she was an instructor in the department’s Division of General Surgery.
Dr. Hantouli is a physician–researcher. Her work aims to improve patient–centered and evidence–based care by generating evidence, evaluating the outcomes of different interventional approaches, and translating findings into clinical practice. Her research expertise includes comparative effectiveness research, healthcare claims data analysis, and implementation research. Dr. Hantouli is an expert in research methodology and currently serves as a co–investigator on several ongoing trials, including a patient–level randomized trial comparing the effectiveness of diverticulitis treatments (colectomy versus medical management) on clinical and patient–reported outcomes (COSMID trial); a system–level randomized trial evaluating interventions to improve care transitions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities; and a qualitative study focused on improving the experiences of patients who speak English as a second language. She is also leading studies using national claims databases to evaluate the management and outcomes of appendicitis, biliary diseases, and diverticulitis during pregnancy and in patients with immunocompromising conditions.
In addition to her research, Dr. Hantouli is committed to mentoring, educating, and supporting the career development of surgical health services researchers. She regularly teaches the application of research methods to NIH–funded T32 research fellows, postdoctoral fellows, medical students, research staff, and faculty.
Shinjiro Hirose, MD
Professor
Division of Pediatric General Surgery
Shinjiro Hirose, MD, FACS, is a pediatric surgeon who specializes in thoracic and fetal surgery. He joins us from his position as Chief of Pediatric General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Hirose received his BS in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his MD from New York Medical College. Dr. Hirose’s research efforts have included the investigation of topics such as cellular therapy for in utero myelomeningocele repair, fetal tissue engineering to treat spina bifida before birth and the efficacy of using abdominal ultrasound to evaluate children with blunt abdominal trauma.
Dr. Hirose is the incoming Professor and Chief of the Fetal Surgery Section of the Division of Pediatric General Surgery and Chief of the Division of Fetal Surgery, Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Hirose brings over a decade of clinical and programmatic leadership in fetal surgery, having previously served in concurrent roles as the Chief of the Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery at the UC Davis; the Director of Pediatric Surgery for Shriners Hospitals for Children, Northern California; the Surgeon–in–Chief at University of California, Davis, Children’s Hospital; and Director of the Fetal Care and Treatment Center at University of California, Davis.
Michelle Ju, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Division of General Surgery
Michelle Ju, MD, MPH, is a surgical oncologist who has joined the Division of General Surgery in the Section of Hepatobiliary Surgery at the University of Washington on Sept 1, 2025. A Pacific Northwest native, she was raised in Bellevue, Washington. She earned her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis before returning home for medical school at the University of Washington (UW).
Dr. Ju completed her general surgery residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, during which she also obtained a Master of Public Health from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She then pursued advanced fellowship training in both Complex General Surgical Oncology and Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery at Duke University.
At the UW, Dr. Ju’s clinical practice focuses on the surgical treatment of liver and pancreatic tumors, employing a wide range of techniques including hepatic arterial infusion pump therapy and robotic surgery. Her research interests include preoperative optimization and the intensification of supportive care for patients undergoing complex oncologic procedures. She is also dedicated to surgical education and simulation-based training..
When she is not chasing after her toddler, she enjoys playing pickleball and watching cooking competition shows with her husband Jonathan (an orthopedic surgeon), hosting dinner parties, and game nights with friends.
Kevin Labadie, MD
Assistant Professor
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Dr. Kevin Labadie is a surgical oncologist who joined the VA Puget Sound Health Care System in October. Dr. Labadie was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and completed his undergraduate and medical education at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Irvine. He completed his general surgery residency at the University of Washington and returns to join the faculty after completing a two-year fellowship in Complex General Surgical Oncology at the City of Hope National Cancer Center in the greater Los Angeles area. At the VA-Puget Sound, Dr. Labadie’s clinical practice will focus on the surgical treatment of gastrointestinal and hepatopancreatobiliary malignancies. Dr. Labadie will join the established VA hepatology group and build a surgical program that will expand access for veterans to hepatic surgery within the VA system. Additionally, he plans to incorporate minimally invasive and robotic surgical approaches to treat veterans with gastrointestinal cancers. As a surgeon-scientist, Dr. Labadie will examine how microbiota modulate the gastrointestinal tumor microenvironment to identify new opportunities for cancer treatment. Outside of work, Dr. Labadie enjoys spending time with his wife Anna. They enjoy skiing, mountain biking, and traveling.
Erin McIntosh, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Vascular Surgery
Dr. Kevin Labadie is a surgical oncologist who joined the VA Puget Sound Health Care System in October. Dr. Labadie was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and completed his undergraduate and medical education at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Irvine. He completed his general surgery residency at the University of Washington and returns to join the faculty after completing a two-year fellowship in Complex General Surgical Oncology at the City of Hope National Cancer Center in the greater Los Angeles area. At the VA-Puget Sound, Dr. Labadie’s clinical practice will focus on the surgical treatment of gastrointestinal and hepatopancreatobiliary malignancies. Dr. Labadie will join the established VA hepatology group and build a surgical program that will expand access for veterans to hepatic surgery within the VA system. Additionally, he plans to incorporate minimally invasive and robotic surgical approaches to treat veterans with gastrointestinal cancers. As a surgeon-scientist, Dr. Labadie will examine how microbiota modulate the gastrointestinal tumor microenvironment to identify new opportunities for cancer treatment. Outside of work, Dr. Labadie enjoys spending time with his wife Anna. They enjoy skiing, mountain biking, and traveling.
David Mulligan, MD
Clinical Professor
Division of Transplant Surgery
David Mulligan, MD, is an acclaimed abdominal organ transplant surgeon from the Mayo Clinic and a passionate leader in organ donation. Dr. Mulligan received his medical degree from the University of Louisville, where he also completed his internship in general surgery and his residency in urologic surgery. He spent 15 years with the Mayo Clinic in Arizona where he worked with a team that is famous for steroid-sparing immunosuppression, protocol biopsies to study early inflammatory markers that lead to chronic kidney damage, and the use of donor kidneys with acute kidney injury for successful transplantation as well as successful use of machine perfusion. Collaboratively, Dr. Mulligan and his colleagues performed more than 3,500 solid organ transplants with outstanding clinical outcomes.
As a researcher, Dr. Mulligan has been a principal investigator in multiple trials, including studies on diabetes mellitus and hepatitis C virus, as well as donor and recipient outcomes in living donor transplantations, and organ allocation and distribution in the U.S.
More recently he served as Chief of the Division of Transplantation and Immunology, Director of the Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center (YNHTC), and Professor of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine from 2013 to 2022, and the Director of Transplant Innovation and Technology at Yale. After becoming Professor Emeritus at Yale, he has moved to Reno, NV to help architect the build of a kidney and liver program for Renown Health and also perform perform living donor liver transplants at University of Washington in Seattle with their existing incredible team. In his free time, he loves spending time with his family, running, biking, hiking, swimming, traveling, and watching movies!
Shane Ottmann, MD
Professor
Division of Transplant Surgery
Shane Ottmann, MD, is a transplant and general surgeon born in Missouri who attended medical school at the University of Missouri, completed his surgical residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and his transplant fellowship at University of Pennsylvania. He is joining us from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore where he served as the director of liver transplant and living donor kidney transplant. His practice includes liver, kidney, pancreas transplant, living donor nephrectomies, donor hepatectomies, hepatobiliary surgery, and general surgery on transplant patients. Dr. Ottmann joins the Division of Transplant Surgery as Professor of Surgery and will be primarily based at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the UW Medical Center-Montlake. He is the Surgical Director of the Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) Program, and Surgical Director of the Liver Transplantation Program. When not in the hospital, Dr. Ottmann enjoys traveling, hiking, skiing, and spending time with his family.
Bassel Al-Alao, MBBS , MD, MRCSI, FRCSI(CTh)
Clinical Assistant Professor
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Bassel Al-Alao, MBBS, MD, MRCSI, FRCSI(CTh), joined the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery in January 2024 as a Clinical Assistant Professor. Dr. Al-Alao’s practice site is UW Medical Center-Montlake as a cardiothoracic organ procurement specialist. In addition, he will provide essential cardiac and thoracic surgical duties and fully participate in the clinical education of our cardiothoracic residents and fellows. He will work closely with Dr. Jay Pal, Professor and Surgical Director for Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support.
Dr. Al-Alao received his medical degree from Damascus University, Syria, in 1999 and began his General Surgery training at that same site, continuing it in Ireland, until 2003. He then pursued his cardiothoracic surgical training in the U.K. until 2013. Dr. Al-Alao completed an one-year advanced thoracic surgical fellowship at the Mayo Clinic-Rochester, MN, an advanced adult cardiac fellowship at Emory University then returned to the U.K. to John Radcliffe hospital at Oxford University from 2016 to 2017. He relocated to the U.S. as Clinical Instructor at the University of Minnesota, and in 2018 was Clinical Associate for Thoracic Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. He was a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Cleveland Clinic/Fisher-Titus Medical Center affiliated hospital from 2019-2020. Dr. Al-Alao returned to the U.K. to continue his training in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital from 2020-2022 and 2023 at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cardiothoracic Transplant Surgery.
Ryutaro Hirose, MD
Professor & Chief
Division of Transplant Surgery
Dr. Ryutaro Hirose was recently appointed Chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery and Co - Director of the UW Medicine Transplant Institute, starting his position on November 1, 2023. Dr. Hirose is a senior and well-known transplant surgeon who had previously worked at UCSF. He has extensive experience in UNOS, within the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) , and he currently serves as the Surgical Director of the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). As a leader in transplantation, Dr. Hirose has served as Chair of the UNOS Liver Committee, Chair of the ASTS Fellowship Training Committee, the Standards and Quality Committee and served as Councilor at Large. He is currently the chair of the AASLD Liver Transplantation and Surgery Committee. As an academic surgeon he has focused on ischemia reperfusion injury in the past, has current and past research funding, and now has extensive publications and national/international presentations on policy and health services research.
Yusha Katie Liu, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division of Plastic Surgery
Dr. Yusha Katie Liu joined the Division of Plastic Surgery in September 2023. Dr. Liu received her doctorate degree in neurobiology in 2014 and her medical degree in 2016 from the University of Washington Medical Scientist Training Program before joining the UW Department of Surgery’s integrated plastic surgery residency.
Dr. Liu is a member of the DoS Division of Research. Her basic science interests include mechanisms of axonal regeneration and muscle denervation/reinnervation. Her clinical/translational research focuses on surface EMG-based rehabilitation of muscle weakness, ultrasound in diagnosis and prognostication for peripheral nerve injuries, and functional outcomes after surgery. Dr. Liu’s science research home is in the UW Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM) and her clinical research home is within the Surgical Outcomes Research Center (SORCE) and the Clinical Learning, Evidence and Research (CLEAR) Center.
As a member of the combined orthopaedics and plastic surgery UW Hand Center, Dr. Liu’s clinical practice focuses on hand and peripheral nerve surgery. Dr. Liu has also led the creation of the Northwest Institute for Nerve Injury at Harborview Medical Center, a new multidisciplinary clinic caring for peripheral nerve patients, in close collaboration with the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, and Department of Radiology.
Gloria Kim, MD, MPH, MS
Assistant Professor
Division of Vascular Surgery
Gloria Kim, MD, joined the Division of Vascular Surgery as Assistant Professor in October 2023. She graduated from Wellesley College with a BA in Computer Science and earned her MD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016. She completed an integrated Vascular Surgery residency at the University of Michigan, which included two years of dedicated research and a Master of Science in Health and Healthcare Research from the University of Michigan. During the two years of dedicated research, Dr. Kim received T32 funding and was a University of Michigan Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy fellow as well as an active member of a multidisciplinary aging research group. In a prior career, her work involved health policy research at one of the largest county public health departments in the country. She also has a Master of Public Health in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
Dr. Kim’s practice site is VA Puget Sound Health Care System, covering scheduled outpatient clinics and inpatient and outpatient surgeries. She holds clinical privileges at UW Medical Center-Montlake, UW Medical Center-Northwest, and Harborview Medical Center, participating in divisional clinical call coverage and rotation at all sites with fellow vascular surgery attendings.
Dr. Kim’s research focuses on optimizing surgical care for frail patients, improving disparities in vascular surgery, better understanding the patient-doctor relationship with the aim of enhancing shared treatment decisions for peripheral artery disease, taking a wide-angle approach to improving patient-reported outcomes, and developing new technology to improve patient care. She also conducts research evaluating clinical outcomes and has significant research experience using large administrative data and registry data as well as qualitative research methods. Dr. Kim’s long-term goal is to facilitate patient-centered care in real world clinical settings through valuable, easily applicable ways.
Dr. Kim participated in clinical education during her residency as a vascular surgery trainee curriculum coordinator and as an instructor for the University of Michigan Clinical Simulation Center. She will continue her teaching responsibilities for the department’s medical students, residents, and fellows both in the clinic and operating room, as well as participate in scheduled didactic sessions for medical students and residents.