Alex Farnand
MD ’13

About Alex Farnand

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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

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