Dr. Sarah Lund

Dr. Sarah Lund received a B.Sc. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she minored in Chemistry, and an M.D. from Mayo Clinic School of Medicine before starting general surgery residency training at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in 2018. She is currently as Assistant Professor of Medical Education at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She completed a 2-year simulation fellowship through the Mayo Multidisciplinary Simulation Center, a 2-year research fellowship through the Mayo Clinician Investigator Training Program, and a 1-year Surgical Education Research Fellowship through the Association for Surgical Education. She is a candidate for a Master degree in Health Professions Education through the University of Illinois at Chicago. She recently matched into the Endocrine Surgery Fellowship program at the University of Michigan, which will start in August 2025.

Dr. Lund’s research interests are broad, and include the use of simulation to instruct, assess, and select surgical residents, the impact of gender and racial bias on medical education, and the prevalence of, predictors of, and methods to prevent burnout in medical professionals. She has published 39 full-length, peer-reviewed articles and given 70 national and international oral presentations. She has taught over a hundred hours at numerous simulated skills courses for surgical residents and medical students, including a general surgery intern simulated skills course and a fourth-year medical student boot camp.