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Dr. Brittany Bankhead
2026 Speaker
Dr. Brittany Bankhead is an Associate Professor of Surgery at MUSC and is a Trauma and Surgical Critical Care surgeon who trained at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and UT Austin Dell Medical School.
She has served in leadership roles nationally with the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and internationally through the CovidSurg Collaborative, contributing to multiple landmark studies in The Lancet and British Journal of Surgery.
Her research spans communication in the trauma bay, resident education, and surgical resilience, and she has delivered invited talks at major conferences across the United States.
She is passionate about translating lessons from the trauma bay into strategies for leadership, communication, and resilience in everyday life.
The same communication strategies that help doctors save lives in a trauma bay—the hospital’s version of a “crisis command center”—can also transform the way we connect in our homes, workplaces, and relationships.
Husband-and-Wife Drs. Brian Kendall and Brittany Bankhead of Mount Pleasant will describe how communication in the operating room can be applied to marriage.
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