Dr. Sean Bidic was born and raised in New Jersey. He graduated with degrees in behavior and health care systems management from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. He received his doctorate of medicine from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed an integrated plastic surgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh. Between his general and plastic surgery training, Dr. Bidic was a research fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Complex Engineered Systems and Robotics Institute. During this time he also completed a Masters of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art. He recently completed a hand and microsurgery fellowship while serving as a Clinical Instructor in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles. Academic interests include interdisciplinary investigations and exploring and developing intersections between art and medicine. Specific research projects have included constructing a robotic upper extremity and developing synthetic bone substitutes. Dr. Bidic is elated to join the faculty at UT Southwestern and to serve not only UT but the Dallas/Fort Worth community as well.