New Director of Critical Care Fellowship and Intensive Care Unit
Linda Dultz, M.D.
The Department of Surgery is extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Linda Dultz has been appointed as the program director of UT Southwestern’s surgical critical care fellowship and medical director of Parkland Hospital’s surgical intensive care unit (SICU). She will succeed Dr. Michael Cripps, who has served in both positions for the last four years.
Dr. Dultz has been at UT Southwestern since 2017. She is an assistant professor in the Division of General and Acute Care Surgery and is currently the medical director of nutrition at Parkland Hospital. She came to our campus from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she was a clinical instructor in its trauma and acute care surgery fellowship. Dr. Dultz received her medical degree and a master’s degree in health policy and management from New York Medical College.
She has been active in the surgical critical care fellowship at UT Southwestern and is a member of its clinical competency committee. Dr. Dultz has also been involved in public affairs on behalf of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, serving as a co-chair of its committee for community outreach for injury control and violence prevention. In the latter role, she has appeared at high schools to discuss “stop the bleed,” burn safety, and distracted driving. In addition, she is an advocacy chair for the North Texas Chapter of the American College of Surgeons.
The department would like to express its deep appreciation to Dr. Dultz’s predecessor, Dr. Michael Cripps. For the last two years, he held the fellowship director/SICU director posts while also serving as Parkland’s interim trauma medical director and medical director for disaster management. With Dr. Dultz’s appointment, he will transition to focusing full-time on his trauma and disaster management roles.