Trauma, Burns, and Surgical Critical Care Board

Dr. Hee Soo Jung is an associate professor of surgery, program director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, and director of surgical critical care services at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison. His practice focuses on acute care surgery, including trauma, emergency general surgery, and surgical critical care.

After earning his medical degree from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Dr. Jung completed residency training at Saint Louis University. He then continued his training with a surgical critical care fellowship at the University of Michigan. 

Dr. Jung’s current research and clinical interests focus on reducing preventable errors in patient care by improving interdisciplinary team communication through the development of novel assessment methods.

Dr. Jung currently serves as vice chair of the Surgical Education Research Committee of the Association for Surgical Education and chair of the Trauma Prevention Coalition. He has previously served as chair of the Graduate and Resident Education Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and chair of the Injury and Violence Prevention Committee of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

His previous volunteer experience at the ABS includes serving as an examination consultant for the General Surgery Continuous Certification Assessment, acting as an examiner for the General Surgery Certifying Examination, and assisting in the development of surgical critical care Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) as part of the EPA Writing Group.