Dr. Katie Russell

Dr. Russell is a leader at the University of Utah Health – Primary Children’s Hospital, serving as the Trauma Medical Director, Utah Pediatric Trauma Network Medical Director, Utah Pectus Program Medical Director, and Pulmonary Hypoplasia Program Medical Director.

She is leading telehealth initiatives to lower costs for families related to travel in both the outpatient and inpatient settings. She is involved in a multi-institutional research collaborative, The Western Pediatric Research Consortium, to push the forefront of rigorous research in pediatric surgical conditions and, is also on the Fetal Surgery Team at her institution.

Dr. Russell has also been active in the field of global surgery. In 2017 she spent two months in South Sudan with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). She has completed multiple surgical missions in Haiti, Guatemala, and Tanzania. She was also on a surgical team that responded in Nepal after the 2015 Earthquake. She intends to continue her efforts in global surgery throughout her career.

Dr. Russell earned a B.A. in visual arts at Brown University and her M.D. at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, where she was elected AOA.