Surgical Interest Group

The Department of Surgery sponsors a Surgical Interest Group that meets monthly throughout the academic year. Membership is open to all medical students and is free.

The department pays for dinner and local surgeons volunteer to speak to the students. Speakers from many surgical specialties and practice types are asked to speak informally to the group about

  • Why they chose their specialty
  • What it took to accomplish training in that specialty
  • What their work life is like
  • What their home life is like
The physician speaks for about 10-15 minutes and then answers questions for another 10-15 minutes. We usually have 2-3 speakers per meeting.

Please contact a member of the student leadership below for more information.

Faculty Advisor: Bullard Dunn, MD, FACS

Bullard-Dunn, Kelli
 
Dr. Bullard Dunn comes to RPCI from the University of Minnesota where she served in the departments of Surgery and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology.  She earned her medical degree at Harvard University, completed residency training at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Fellowship in Colon & Rectal Surgery at the University of Minnesota. She is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Colon & Rectal Surgery. She holds a patent for a medical device that holds medical instrumentation.

Dr. Bullard Dunn’s research interests focus on the growth and progression of colorectal carcinoma. Her clinical research involves patterns of recurrence in colorectal cancer and surgical complications of neoadjuvant therapy. Her basic science research investigates cell-matrix interactions in colorectal cancer cells.

Dr. Bullard Dunn is a member of the Society of University Surgeons, American College of Surgeons, Association for Academic Surgery, Association for Surgical Education, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, American Medical Association and the Association of Women Surgeons. She has authored or co-authored more than 70 journal articles, abstracts and book chapters.