About Alex Farnand

Job title: Section Chief, General/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery, Captain James A Lovell Federal Health Care Center
Degrees: MD ’13
Career stage: Early-career
State of practice: Chicago, Illinois
Current practice settings: Government / military healthcare
Lived career experiences/transitions:
- Starting a family while maintaining a full-time practice
- Work/life balance
- Military medicine
Graduation year from the UW School of Medicine: 2013
Residency: Saint Joseph Hospital – Chicago, IL
Specialty/subspecialty: General Surgery
Teaching roles: Clinical Assistant Professor, Rosalind Franklin University/Chicago Medical School

