Biography
Dr. Michael McGee is Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Colorectal Surgery at the University of Michigan. Prior to obtaining his medical degree at Drexel University, he was trained as a mechanical engineer. After completing general surgery training at Case Western Reserve University, Dr. McGee completed colorectal surgery fellowship at Cleveland Clinic. While at Case Western, Dr. McGee completed the Dudley P. Allen Scholarship dedicated to clinical research in minimally invasive surgery and surgical endoscopy. Dr. McGee was recruited to Northwestern University where he practiced for 11 years and held several system-wide administrative roles for Northwestern Medicine before joining the University of Michigan in 2022.
Dr. McGee’s clinical interests include complex re-operative abdominal surgery, minimally invasive colorectal surgery, surgical endoscopy, and anorectal surgery for cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. He served as co-director of the 50+ hospital Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC) where he led day-to-day operations and statewide quality improvement projects for thousands of surgical patients in Illinois. Dr. McGee’s research interests include surgical quality improvement, implementation science, and patient education. He is an active member of several national surgical organizations, multiple editorial boards, and has authored over fifty publications and received multiple grants and awards for research, teaching, and humanism.
Dr. McGee’s research involves design, implementation, and scientific analysis of large-scale surgical quality improvement projects focusing on perioperative care optimization. As faculty and later co-director of the 50+ hospital Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC), Dr. McGee oversaw two statewide quality improvement programs focusing on reducing surgical site infections (SSI) and implementing a multi-faceted “prehabilitation” program for colorectal surgery patients. Dr. McGee seeks to understand patient, surgeon, and institutional factors that impact implementation fidelity across diverse hospital networks.
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