Dr. Brian C. George

Dr. Brian George is Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery as well as the Director of the Center for Surgical Training and Research at the University of Michigan. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Society for Improving Medical Professional Learning (SIMPL), an international medical education research network.

He completed his undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics at the University of Michigan before working as an AI researcher and software engineer in the Bay Area. He eventually switched careers and pursued his MD at the University of California, San Francisco, his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a Trauma/Surgical Critical Care fellowship at the University of Washington’s Harborview Hospital. He also has a Master’s degree in Education from the University of California Berkeley’s School of Education.

He has won numerous teaching awards, authored over 100 papers, dozens of book chapters, and mentored many junior researchers, supported by over $10M in funding from the NIH, the ACGME, multiple Boards, NBME, and many other national stakeholders in medical education.

Dr. George studies how to improve the competence of physician trainees, working in partnership with hundreds of other educators in SIMPL. He is also focused on improving the system of medical education internationally.