Shannon Martin, MD, MS is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Hospital Medicine. She is a 2011 graduate of the internal medicine residency program at the University of Chicago, and stayed on to complete a dual fellowship as a Hospitalist Scholar and in the Medical Education Research, Innovation, Teaching and Scholarship (MERITS) program while earning her master’s degree in Health Studies. Her clinical interests are in general internal medicine, in hospitalized patients, as well as perioperative consultative medicine. In July of this year, she assumed a new role as Associate Program Director for the internal medicine residency program, where her academic focus is on assessments in graduate medical education, clinical supervision in residency training, and improving trainee communication skills in consultative medicine.