Auten, Michael
Michael Auten, MD, MA
Hometown:
Hickory, North Carolina
Undergraduate School:
United States Military Academy at West Point
Graduate School:
Kyiv School of Economics, Kyiv, Ukraine
Medical School:
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bio:
I attended college at West Point, graduated in 2016, and spent my first year of military service in the U.S. Marine Corps on a Fulbright research grant in Ukraine. When I returned, I served as a U.S. Marine officer in various roles in information operations and strategic communications, including a few training assignments in the UK and Norway and one deployment in rural East Africa. During my time in the military, I was accepted to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on the military institutional partnership admissions pathway and joined the class of 2026. During M3 summer, I was selected as a medical fellow for the 2025 Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, where I developed an interest in ICU ethics and humanitarian intervention during conflict. I’m thrilled to be joining the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington as a clinical-track surgery resident with the intern class of 2026!
Personal Interests:
Playing with my son, hiking, kayaking, swimming in the frigid waters of the sound or the less-frigid waters of the lake, experiencing Seattle coffee (ideal day is all of them together).
Clinical Interests:
Trauma, CT, vascular
Professional Activities:
– Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), military committee
– American College of Surgeons
– Neurocritical Care Society
– Wilderness Medical Society
– Aerospace Medicine Student and Resident Organization (AMSRO)
– Space Surgery Association
Why UW?
There’s simply no place like UW and no better place to become a surgeon.
What do you like best about living in Seattle?
The people, the mountains, the water, Ballard FC, Reign.
Publications:
For a full list of publications, see the Google Scholar profile for Dr. Auten.