Milissa McKee, M.D. ’92,

will be receiving the Young Alumni Achievement Award at the Sioux Awards Banquet on October 5, 2006.  The UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences will host a reception in her honor in the Vennes Atrium on Thursday, October 5, 2006 from 2-3 p.m.  The public is invited to attend.

McKee, originally from Minnesota, graduated from the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the age of 19. She completed her general surgery residency at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California and earned a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  McKee was a fellow in pediatric surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Children’s Medical and Surgical Center and University of Maryland Medical Systems.

McKee is a member of the American Medical Association, the Candidate Group of the American College of Surgeons, the American Pediatric Surgical Association, and the International Pediatric Endosurgery Group. She is board-certified in general surgery and pediatric surgery. She has also authored several research publications and book chapters.

McKee currently resides in Branford, CT, where she is an assistant professor of pediatrics and surgery at Yale University School of Medicine. She is an attending surgeon and director of pediatric trauma services at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, director of pediatric minimally invasive surgery, and surgical co-director of the pediatric intensive care unit at the hospital.

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