Hilary Fairbrother is an Associate Professor at McGovern Medical School, UTHealth at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She has a joint appointment to the Department of Emergency Medicine where she is the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education and at medical school where she is the Assistant Director of the Doctoring Course. Hilary has a Masters of Public Health in Comparative Health Care Policy, and also is currently the Chair-Elect of the Young Physicians Section of the American Medical Association. She lives in Houston with her husband, 11 month old son, 2 Italian Greyhounds, and 3 post-Hurricane Harvey cats.