Dr. Hamill inducted into ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators

Mark Hamill, MD, a professor in the UNMC Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, has been inducted into the prestigious American College of Surgeons Academy of Master Surgeon Educators.

Dr. Hamill was honored with 75 other leading surgeon educators at a ceremony held Sept. 27 in Chicago.

He joins two other UNMC colleagues in being inducted as members: Joshua Mammen, MD, PhD, chief of the UNMC Division of Surgical Oncology, and Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, current president of the University of Nebraska System and former UNMC chancellor who holds a tenured faculty appointment as a professor in the UNMC Department of Surgery and UNMC College of Public Health.

“When I was granted associate membership into the ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators several years ago, at the induction ceremony I was seated between two master surgeons – who wrote some of the textbooks I used during residency and fellowship,” Dr. Hamill said. “It’s quite an honor to be similarly recognized and granted membership into the academy.

“My hope for the future is to continue in my efforts to advance surgical and critical care education on the local, national and international levels.”

Inductees go through a peer review process before being selected for the academy, which helps advance the science and practice of surgical education across the various specialties, the academy says. After inducting the first class in 2018, the academy has grown to 401 members across 13 specialties and general surgery, according to the organization.

In addition to his faculty appointment, Dr. Hamill is a trauma surgeon, surgical intensivist and acute care surgeon with Nebraska Medicine, and he also holds interests in trauma and critical care education.

Dr. Hamill is co-editor of the current edition of the Fundamental Critical Care Support textbook and a contributor to multiple other education projects including the FCCS: Surgical Course and the upcoming edition of the Advanced Trauma Life Support Course. He has directed hundreds of surgical and critical care education courses, including topics in trauma, critical care support and disaster management. He is a national course consultant for the Society of Critical Care Medicine for the FCCS and FCCS: Surgical Courses.

In past years he has been honored with fellowship by the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Critical Care Medicine, has received multiple presidential citations from the Society of Critical Care Medicine and is a past faculty inductee in the Gold Humanism Honor Society.