Heidi Frankel completed her undergraduate training at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and her medical education at the University of Maryland in 1987. Thereafter, she completed her surgical residency at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, MD and her trauma and surgical critical care fellowship at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. In 1995, she joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Traumatology and Surgical Critical Care where she directed Trauma Performance Improvement. In 2000, she relocated to Yale University as an Associate Professor of Surgery and as the Director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship and the Surgical ICU Director of Yale-New Haven Hospital. In 2005, she joined the faculty of the Division of Burn, Trauma and Critical Care at UT Southwestern as an Associate Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Critical Care Section and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program Director. Her research interests include the use of ultrasound in trauma and in the ICU and systems’development strategies to improve outcome in the Surgical ICU.
