Hilary Fairbrother is an Associate Professor at McGovern Medical School, UTHealth in Houston. She has a joint appointment to the Department of Emergency Medicine where she is the Vice Chair of Education and at the medical school where she is the Director of Team Based Learning. Hilary has a Masters of Public Health in Comparative Health Care Policy, and currently works at the local, state, and national level on healthcare policy. She lives in Houston with her husband, two sons, and two Italian Greyhounds.