I am a colorectal surgeon with Granger Medical Clinic | Associates in Colon and Rectal Surgery in Salt Lake City, Utah and one of the teaching faculty of the Utah HealthCare Institute/St. Mark's Colon and Rectal Surgery Fellowship. I trained in general surgery at the University of Minnesota. I completed a surgical education research fellowship from the Association for Surgical Education and the American College of Surgeons-MacLean Center Surgical Ethics Fellowship from the University of Chicago. I completed a colon and rectal surgery fellowship at Trinity Health-Ann Arbor (formerly St. Joseph Mercy Hospital). I am a member of the Young Surgeons Committee for the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and serve as the liaison of the Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons (RAS-ACS) to the American College of Surgeons Committee on Ethics.